Writers, consultants and EMC employees gathered at the Nine Zero Hotel in Boston last Friday for the Content Management Writers' Summit to discuss the future of enterprise content management (ECM) in general with a focus on where EMC hopes to take the EMC-Documentum platform.
Posted Apr 11, 2008
Extensis, a brand of Celartem, Inc. and a software developer that allows creative workgroups and professionals to streamline their workflow and securely manage their digital assets and fonts, announced an equity investment in, and technology partnership with, Equilibrium, a provider of automation software for rich media distribution.
Posted Apr 08, 2008
IXIASOFT, an XML content management provider, has announced the availability of the DITA CMS Framework 2.1.
Posted Apr 08, 2008
Vizrt, a provider of real-time, integrated broadcast graphics software, announced the signature of a heads of agreement to purchase Escenic, a provider of content management and publishing for the web.
Posted Apr 04, 2008
Atempo, Inc., a provider of cross-platform data protection and archiving solutions, introduced the new version of its file archiving software solution, Atempo Digital Archive (ADA) 2.0.
Posted Apr 01, 2008
MediaBeacon, Inc., announced the official release of v2.0 of its MediaBeacon R3volution Enterprise DAM Suite and MediaBeacon M3taforms, a standalone remote data submission and validation tool.
Posted Apr 01, 2008
Vialect announced that its collaboration software and online service is being upgraded to Version 6.
Posted Apr 01, 2008
Taxonomy tools are used by individuals who call themselves taxonomists or who otherwise are familiar with best practices for creating taxonomies, including librarians, controlled vocabulary editors, lexicographers, and some information architects. The products covered in this evaluation all meet the basic requirements and share several additional features. These include designating candidate and approved terms, indicating term creation date and modification date, permitting multiple hierarchies (polyhierarchies), and disallowing illegal term relationships. They all run only on Windows and include online Help. They are available as affordable single-user desktop tools in addition to having multi-user versions and can export taxonomies in platform-neutral formats for use in other systems.
Posted Mar 30, 2008
SkillSoft PLC, a SaaS provider of e-learning and performance support solutions for global enterprises, government, education, and small to medium-sized businesses, has released an in-depth case study detailing how IBM Corporation was able to achieve a more interactive, user-focused experience to help organizations overcome the challenges of "siloed" training practices.
Posted Mar 28, 2008
Velocix, provider of a digital asset delivery network, announced the addition of a complete family of Live Video Streaming solutions to its current product portfolio.
Posted Mar 28, 2008
Open Text Corporation, a provider of enterprise content management (ECM), announced that RedDot, the Open Text Web Solutions Group, has released its Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Document Management Integration.
Posted Mar 28, 2008
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced it is awarding $3 million of support to the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that Wikipedia.
Posted Mar 28, 2008
Follett Corporation, a company that provides products and services to the educational marketplace, announced the acquisition of technology firm Fourteen40 Inc., a provider of Web 2.0 social networking for collaborative learning.
Posted Mar 28, 2008
BrainKeeper, an enterprise wiki provider, has partnered with Smartsheet.com, a provider of online task management solutions, in an attempt to provide a new, more comprehensive corporate collaboration solution.
Posted Mar 25, 2008
Questys Solutions, a provider in the ECM industry, announced the release of Questys CMx, Questys' newest content management product offering, which is intended to expand the functionality and feature sets of Questys' current product suite, creating a customizable content management products for the ECM industry.
Posted Mar 25, 2008
SDL Tridion, a provider of web content management (WCM) software solutions and a division of SDL, a provider of global information management (GIM), announced it signed a formal partnership with Nedstat, a provider of web analytics.
Posted Mar 21, 2008
Day Software, a provider of global content management and content infrastructure software, has launched dev.day.com, a corporate blog and portal designed to encourage communication among those who share ideas and interests around content-related topics.
Posted Mar 21, 2008
MindTouch announced the release of Deki Wiki "Itasca"--the latest version of its open source collaboration platform.
Posted Mar 21, 2008
SAS, a provider of business intelligence (BI) and advanced analytics, announced the acquisition of privately held Teragram, a provider of natural language processing (NLP) and advanced linguistic technology.
Posted Mar 21, 2008
The toolsets alone can run to hundreds of thousands of dollars when a fully automated publishing solution is integrated with an XML CMS, such as those from Astoria, Vasont, and XyEnterprise, or integrated editing, styling, publishing, and CM systems from PTC Arbortext. Significantly, however, where free content management solutions have been driven by the open source community—who built the leading CMSs such as Drupal, Joomla, and Plone—the free structured publishing option for DITA is the gift of one of those large corporations: IBM.
Posted Mar 21, 2008
Ex Libris Group, a provider of automation solutions for academic libraries, announced the integration of "About this book" pages from Google Book Search service into Ex Libris products.
Posted Mar 18, 2008
NoteScribe is a note-taking and organizational program developed to assist students, professors, researchers or anyone else in the organization of their notes, papers, study materials, or any other digital information they choose to manage.
Posted Mar 18, 2008
ROO Group, a global service provider enabling businesses to leverage their digital media assets and provide an enhanced user experience, announced that it intends to streamline its ownership and management structure through several initiatives.
Posted Mar 18, 2008
Giunti Labs, a provider of e-learning and mobile learning content management technology, announced that its acquisition of the IPR, assets, and contracts of the HarvestRoad Hive digital repository and of the technical content management system (TCMS), along with their installations worldwide is now completed.
Posted Mar 18, 2008
Microsoft Corp. announced plans to acquire Rapt Inc., a provider of advertising yield management solutions for digital media publishers.
Posted Mar 18, 2008