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.

Interwoven and Microsoft

Interwoven Announces ECM Solutions on Microsoft Platform. Interwoven, Inc. announced they have become a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Interwoven, building on Microsoft technologies, will enable information workers-starting with professional services firms including legal, accounting, management consulting, corporate legal departments, and IT consulting-to manage the entire content lifecycle through the tight integration of the Interwoven WorkSite Collaborative Document Management, E-Mail Management, and RecordsManager solutions with the Microsoft platform including Office, SharePoint Portal Server, and Windows. http://www.interwoven.com [Gilbane Report News]

PHP-Nuke Review

PHP-Nuke Review. The latest Intranet Journal reviews PHP-Nuke. We link to a lot of trade-press product reviews, but remember they are almost uniformly glowing. You will find few comparative analyses, and this article is no exception. The author does point out that PHP-Nuke (like all the other Nukes, we wish he’d add) is more than a CMS and really represents a website-in-a-box application potentially well-suited for certain collaborative Intranet environments. The review also helpfully advises caution in examining the provenance of optional add-ons. But what about documentation? “It is likely that a documentation project will be launched in the future”…… [CMSWatch Trends and Features]

Documentum admin tip: Stubborn jobs

From time-to-time, you may find that dm_jobs fail to run according to their schedule. Sometimes they can be “encouraged” to run by logging in to Documentum Administrator, opening the properties for the job, changing the next invocation date to a time shortly after the present, and saving the changes by clicking OK. Or you can simply open the object, select “Run After Update” and click OK.

When those attempts fail, and assuming you’ve already checked $DM_HOME/tomcat/logs/catalina.out and $DOCUMENTUM/dba/log/<docbase_name>.log for obvious error messages, your agent_exec process might be hung. If none of the jobs are running when they are supposed to this is another indicator of a hung agent_exec process.

One way to clear this problem is to simply kill the agent_exec process. On UNIX you would grep for the process (ps -ef|grep agent_exec ought to do the trick) and then kill it (kill <process id>). The content server will notice that the agent exec process is dead and will start a new one. This should free up those stuck jobs.

PureEdge and Open Text get together

PureEdge & Open Text Partner on E-Forms Solutions. PureEdge Solutions Inc. and Open Text Corporation announced they are partnering to deliver new solutions that will help large organizations streamline and improve complex processes that require electronic forms. Open Text will utilize the PureEdge 8x XML solution to extend e-forms capabilities in its Livelink ECM Solutions. A key target for the new solutions will be large government agencies, in addition to major corporations in the financial services, healthcare and manufacturing sectors. Livelink ECM Solutions unify information and complex processes, while allowing the people involved in those processes to collaborate in real time. By using PureEdge XML e-forms with Livelink, customers will be able to accelerate their e-forms implementation. http://www.opentext.com, http://www.pureedge.com [Gilbane]