For the past three years, my annual wrap-up of content management systems has mostly counted the exploding number of branded products, for sale and open source, on the world market—now nearing 3,000. This year, I want to focus on a handful that are doing things so well that they show the way to the future for all the others.
Posted Nov 15, 2007
What a difference a year makes. Since my column in last year’s EC100 issue, content applications of all types have been showing their 2.0 stripes, increasingly blurring the boundaries between web and print, and where their content resides. As “Web 2.0” has become part of our vocabulary, Content 2.0 parallels are blurring web-based and non-web-based content.
Posted Nov 15, 2007
I've just returned from representing EContent at the second Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit in London. This turned out to be an excellent conference in every respect. It was especially notable for the balance of strategic insight and tactical best practices in the areas of search, portals, collaboration, and content management.
Posted Nov 15, 2007
A closer look at Sitecore, a content management system and portal software solutions-provider that has built a strong presence in the U.S., the U.K., and Scandinavia in its more than five years in business.
Posted Nov 14, 2007
A closer look at Near-Time, which is trying to help business users tap their promise by offering a way to build wikis as publishing and collaboration platforms without IT help.
Posted Nov 14, 2007
A closer look at Liferay, which started as a website project for founder Brian Chan's church and has turned into a leading open source enterprise portal framework for integrated web publishing and content management.
Posted Nov 14, 2007
A closer look at Connectbeam, which has already earned a high profile and glowing reviews by offering an ingenious combination of bookmarking, tagging, and social software functionality.
Posted Nov 14, 2007
iCONECT, a provider of litigation support and collaboration software, has contributed its XML knowledge to the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) project.
Posted Nov 13, 2007
Clickability, Inc., a provider of web content management systems, and Akamai Technologies, Inc., a global service provider for accelerating content and applications online, announced a strategic relationship intended to improve the speed, reliability, and performance of shared customers' websites
Posted Nov 13, 2007
MindTouch, an open source wiki platform company, unveiled its new wiki hosting service for creating mashups and composite applications.
Posted Nov 13, 2007
A recent partnership launched between Near-Time, Inc. and Wiley Wrox Press has opened the door to interaction among P2P digital publishing communities.
Posted Nov 13, 2007
These days, the maturing of the business intelligence market and heightened user expectations for easy information access means the gap between BI and search is narrowing. The question is: Will the two every become one?
Posted Nov 13, 2007
Armedia LLC, a provider of content management-related products and solutions in the United States, has released the Armedia Mobile Experience for EMC Documentum, enabling real-time access from mobile devices through a partnership between VSR Networks and Armedia.
Posted Nov 09, 2007
Macrovision Corporation, a company that provides distribution, commerce, and consumption solutions for software, entertainment, and information content, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire All Media Guide Holdings, Inc. ("AMG").
Posted Nov 09, 2007
XML has established itself as the preferred technology for exchanging data between web applications. Now it has earned pride of place as a document markup language, its original purpose.
Posted Nov 09, 2007
InterSystems Corporation announced that it is joining with Comprehensive Computer Services, Inc. (CCS) in an implementation partnership to deliver software solutions built on the InterSystems CACHE object database.
Posted Nov 06, 2007
Day Software, a provider of global content management and content infrastructure software, announced general availability of its new Web 2.0 collaboration solution.
Posted Nov 06, 2007
People contact me hoping that I can solve whatever the problem is with their intranet but have no idea of what I do or how I do it. So in case you are reading this and thinking of hiring a consultant, I thought I would tell you a little about how I go about "making your intranet work better."
Posted Nov 06, 2007
QuarkAlliance partner picturesafe and Quark Inc. announced an integration between the digital asset management system myCONTENT and the newly announced Quark Publishing System 7 (QPS).
Posted Nov 02, 2007
Hot Banana, a web content management solution from J.L. Halsey, announced that it is now available on salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace.
Posted Nov 02, 2007
Safari Books Online, an on-demand electronic reference and learning platform and a joint venture of O'Reilly Media Inc. and Pearson Technology Group, announced an agreement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Posted Nov 02, 2007
Infosolve Technologies, which provides businesses with data solutions, announced the introduction of OpenDQ V2.0, a data quality solution that addresses both structured and unstructured data quality.
Posted Nov 02, 2007
EContent magazine editor Michelle Manafy discusses the challenges organizations face when users turn to consumer based technologies to meet their desire for a Web 2.0 collaborative experience inside the enterprise with Jim Till, CMO of Xythos Software.
Posted Nov 02, 2007
SchemaLogic, a provider of business semantics management software for Global 5000 companies, announced the availability of SchemaLogic Enterprise Suite (SES) for Microsoft SharePoint 2007.
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Xythos Software, a developer of document management and collaboration software, announced Xythos Enterprise Document Management Suite (EDMS) and Digital Locker Suite (DL) 7.0.
Posted Oct 30, 2007