Category: Content Management

Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Web Content Management (WCM), Document Management (DM). Whatever you call it this category covers market happenings and lessons learned.

Documentum kicked off user conference today

Documentum kicked off their annual user conference, Momentum, today at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. I’m here with a couple of colleagues. Patrick Dawson and I are presenting on “How Southwest Airlines Designs High Usage EMC Documentum Applications” tomorrow morning. Tuning and performance is usually a hot topic so I’m hoping for a good turnout.

Nucleus Research offers common sense advice but misses critical points

Before I read Scott’s full post I read the PDF and had the same response he did–that the researchers were vastly underestimating the amount of time it takes to do a proper content audit.

Maximizing Content Management ROI.

The other observation about the report is that they don’t mention understanding how content is published or syndicated to content consumers. The transorming content into desired formats and then sharing it with the people and/or applications that need it would seem to be an area where decent ROI could be achieved.

The research report does offer common sense advice on some aspects of what really amount to understanding the requirements of a content management system before getting too deep into the project.

New Alfresco release coming out

Alfresco is an open source enterprise content management solution founded by one of the co-founders of Documentum.

Alfresco Enterprise Network Release Candidate Announced. Alfresco, Inc. announced that it is making available the Alfresco Enterprise Network Release Candidate. This integrates closely to the JBoss Cache, JBoss Application Server and Hibernate utilizing the underlying scalability and high-availability features. Alfresco utilizes JBoss Cache's ability to distribute and maintain data caches, making it possible to build large-scale systems which allows Alfresco to deliver cached data at in memory speeds. Alfresco also utilizes the clustering, failover and load balancing facilities of the JBoss Application Server to increase scalability. Content models are more complex than traditional relational database tables. Alfresco utilizes Hibernate to control the content management schema. Alfresco complements these products with content replication and use of Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) to integrate to different, configurable authentication systems. Features of the Alfresco Enterprise Network are single sign-on through Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) across the JBoss Portal and portlets,fail-safe content services, a massively parallel content grid, and distributed high availability within the data centre and between disparate data centres. http://www.alfresco.org [Gilbane Report News]

EMC to Resell WoodWing’s Smart Connection Enterprise

EMC to Resell WoodWing’s Smart Connection Enterprise. WoodWing Software announced that EMC Corporation will resell its Smart Connection Enterprise software as part of the EMC Documentum Enterprise Publishing Solution (EPS), a new content management solution that provides editorial design and layout capabilities. WoodWing’s Smart Connection Enterprise is an Adobe InDesign and InCopy integration tool that enables workflow flexibility through management, organization and document security standards for editorial production. The integration of WoodWing Smart Connection in EMC Documentum EPS allows publishers to manage their editorial production workflows, using the same print content and related ancillary content for publishing to the Web or other emerging channels such as wireless devices. Documentum EPS is built on the unified EMC Documentum enterprise content management (ECM) architecture, enabling users to utilize the full ECM capabilities such as digital asset management, web publishing, XML support, workflows, security, content rendering and localization. Smart Connection Enterprise serves complex workflows and environments, where searching files and/or the content of a story or specific keywords or metadata is required, and comes with support for MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and Sybase. The server runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris. http://www.woodwing.com [Gilbane Report News]