Gilbane Content Management Conference to Host CM Professionals’ First Summit. The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the CM Professionals organization (CM Pros) (www.cmprofessionals.org) will hold their inaugural Summit in conjunction with the Gilbane Conference on Content Management to be held at the Westin Copley in Boston, November 30 – December 2, 2004. The CM Pros Summit will take place on November 30 in the same location. [Gilbane Report News]
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.
Arrived in Montreal
I’m in Montreal this week for the Documentum conference, Momentum Live. I actually came up a few days early with my wife. A few pics and stories from that piece of the trip is at “Day 1, Montreal”. If there are any noteworthy announcements or other ECM insights at the conference, I’ll blog them here.
Interwoven TeamSite for Linux
Interwoven Announces TeamSite for Linux.
Interwoven, Inc. announced that it will release a version of its
TeamSite content management software for the Linux platform. TeamSite
will join Interwoven OpenDeploy and Interwoven WorkSite MP on the Linux
platform. The initial release of TeamSite for Linux, a Workgroup
Edition, will help ensure a low total cost of ownership for
departmental solution deployments such as employee self-service,
portals and intranets. Interwoven TeamSite for Linux supports Red Hat
Enterprise Linux ES version 3. A license for the Workgroup Edition,
which encompasses five websites and 100 users, starts at $49,000.
General availability is scheduled for September 2004.
www.interwoven.com [Gilbane Report News]
Structured content management
Introduction to Structured Content Management with XML.
Kay Ethier and Scott Abel offer an introductory primer on how to think
about and define structure, then apply XML for better management of
your documents…… [CMSWatch Trends and Features]
Day’s promotion of JSR 170
Day Provides Content Repository API for Java Technology to Apache to Promote JSR 170.
Day announced that it has made available an implementation of the
Content Repository API for Java Technology (JCR) to the Apache Software
Foundation in order to further promote industry adoption and
collaboration of the JSR 170 standard. Apache has formed a new
Incubator project, code-named “Jackrabbit”, to accept the donation and
guide future development of the software.[Gilbane Report News]
New organization: CMPros
New Content Management Professionals Organization Announced Today.
CM Professionals: A Content Management Community of Practice Silver
Spring MD, September 20, 2004. A group of thirty content management
experts from around the world has announced the formation of CM
Professionals, an international community of content management
professionals whose… [Ideas in Technology and Publishing]
Getting started with Plone
A Plone Primer.
A Plone consultant, Brad Bollenbach, has written a nice introduction to
the open-source CMS, Plone (which is built on top of the Zope
application server) in O’Reilly’s ONLamp e-zin… [CMSWatch Trends and Features]
META looks at CM market
Web Content Management (CMS) Market Summary. Meta Group have recently released the METAspectrum summary of the North American Web Content Management (Web CMS) market. The focus is on WCM systems and ECM systems that are purchased expressly to drive Web sites. Out front they find the usual suspects, those being Documentum, Vignette, and Interwoven. Following in the top challenger roles are Microsoft, Stellent, FileNet, and IBM…. [CMSwire]
Ektron authoring tools
Ektron Updates XML Authoring Tools. New Hampshire based Ektron, has recently updated their popular eWebEditPro+XML web-based editing component. Of note is an enhanced API, giving developers further abilities to manipulated data and behavior in server-side code. eWebEditPro+XML integrates with Web content management systems and other Web-based applications to enable non-technical users to create “smart” forms and capture and validate data based on specific criteria, all… [CMSwire]
StepTwo on large CMS implementations
CMS Myth #2: Big organisations need a big CMS. I’ve seen this time and time again: big corporations making the automatic assumption that because they are large, they must purchase a similarly large and expensive content management system. This is not the case. In many cases, even large organisations… [Column Two]
Big corporations, though, often have larger, more strategic, initiatives that serve as an umbrella under which web content management falls. Many companies are looking to consolidate vendors and reduce the IT footprint. When companies start to consider the larger problem of ECM–not just WCM–the vendor list starts to get shorter, the implementation complexity begins to increase, and the price tag inevitably goes up.