Content Management Solutions

Alfresco Software Inc., the leader in open source enterprise content management (ECM), and content storage software provider Caringo, Inc., recently introduced a combined solution for managing and storing content for billions of files and petabytes of data. Developed by XeniT, a partner of both companies, the Alfresco2CAStor connector is now available on Alfresco Forge, and Caringo is offering a free download of its CAStor content storage software for up to 4TB capacity. Tweet this: #Alfresco and Caringo introduce content management and storage solution, available for download now http://tinyurl.com/Alf2CAS CAStor's unique software approach creates high-performance and massively scalable clustered storage on standard x86 server hardware. This provides customers with affordable content storage that can start with one terabyte and scale seamlessly into Petabytes as your business grows. CAStor's built-in archive features ensure policy based retention and integrity to meet compliance mandates and guarantee accessibility well into the future.

Many industries face management challenges when it comes to regulatory issues. From the financial sector to the pharmaceutical, figuring out how to best manage, store and archive content while meeting compliance mandates is often a complex process. Thanks to Virtify, a leader in enterprise content management solutions for life sciences companies, things are getting easier. Today they've announced the release of an end-to-end web based solution aimed at managing content and compliance requirements for all facets of the life science industries.

Alfresco has released version 3.1 of its enterprise content management system. Exclusively available to enterprise customers, this version has a number of stability improvements designed to support the most complex enterprises. Improvements to the InfrastructureAlfresco Enterprise 3.0 was put through its paces when it was released. The enterprise content management solution was built for high availability and clustering, but needed some fine tuning. This is what 3.1 provides, fining tuning and some tools to help monitor and maintain:

With the final release of Alfresco Labs officially available, Alfresco believes they have an enterprise content management solution that can easily compete in today's tough economic market. With this release comes Alfresco's first solution for the presentation tier of website development - the new Web Studio. They released the enterprise version of Alfresco Labs in late October. Now, the cycle for Alfresco Labs is complete with the final version hot off the press.

Unisys Corporation (NYSE:UIS) today announced the Unisys InfoImage® Connector for Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007. Unisys InfoImage Connector is a new solution developed by Unisys in collaboration with Microsoft that enables Unisys customers to seamlessly connect Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Unisys InfoImage document imaging and workflow solutions. Unisys InfoImage is used by financial services firms, government agencies, and other organizations to process high volumes of loans, claims and tax forms in digital form. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a leading collaboration and portal software suite. Unisys believes that combining these technologies will enable users of both solutions to significantly enhance productivity and improve their ability to comply with disclosure requirements.

So you like Documentum, but you don’t like the price tag associated with developing an enterprise content management solution on it? You’re in luck then because Impact Systems has developed a couple of solutions just for you, especially if you have those annoying compliance g-men hanging out in the office. Impact Systems has designed a number of enterprise content management products and services intended specifically for small to mid-sized businesses. These preconfigured solutions are based on the Documentum platform and include key solutions such as

In case you didn't read the blog entry about CMIS by Kas, Microsoft, EMC, and IBM recently announce that they, along with other vendors like Open Text and Alfresco, have submitted a new content integration standard to OASIS. This new standard should enable disparate content management solutions to exchange content in a more standardized way. Presumably, this standard will enable organizations with multiple content repositories manage and present (to various applications) those repositories as a virtual content store.

A European manufacturer of domestic and commercial water and space heating systems has launched new Web sites in the United Kingdom and Italy that use technology from Open Text.Baxi Group has teamed with Open Text’s Web Solutions Group RedDot and business partner Freestyle Interactive to deploy the sites. The Open Text solution enables employees companywide to create, edit and approve Web content before it goes live on the site. Baxi’s marketing groups can now control all online output and messaging, thereby lowering the costs of outsourcing Web management to third parties.Luke Vanhegan, group IT development manager at Baxi Group, says, "For a brand-led organization like Baxi Group, our online offering needs to accurately reflect our visions and corporate identity. The new-look Web site will not only enhance the way our organiz

Every Content Management Solution Provider seeks to find and market what makes them unique. For Nstein, it’s a little about their ability to produce a multi-lingual content management solution for the digital publishing industry. But that’s not what makes them unique — they have a “secret sauce”. And it may just be the thing that pushes them ahead of an ever growing and growling pack. CMSWire had the opportunity to sit down with Nstein executives including David Crouy, Marketing Director and Diane Burley, Digital Publishing Industry Specialist and banter a bit about the Nstein product line and what they believe sets them apart from the crowd.

ASG Software Solutions, a content management and business service management (BSM) solutions provider, announced new developments in its integrated content management suite. The new addition to ASG’s business service platform (BSP) will continue to work towards providing a comprehensive platform for an organization’s entire content infrastructure and enterprise archiving. ASG’s content-oriented BSP offering includes platforms for both content management and Mobius Management Systems, Inc., which ASG acquired in June 2007.

Ingeniux OnDemand hosted web content management solution now offered in three new virtual server hosting packages. Ingeniux opens second data center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ingeniux Corporation, the trusted provider of enterprise 2.0 Web content management software, announced three new software-as-a-service packages for Ingeniux OnDemand, a leading hosted web content management solution. Ingeniux has also opened a second hosting facility co-located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

KMWorld recently named iDatix's iSynergy Enterprise Content Management solution one of KMWorld's Trend-Setting Products for 2008. iSynergy is the award-winning browser-based content management platform designed to easily integrate business process automation, human resource allocation and document management in one quick-to-deploy application that empowers users to innovate on how they manage and share content within the enterprise. In its sixth year, KMWorld's Trend Setting Products List includes the best-of-breed content and knowledge management solutions in the market space. iDatix will be featured in the September issue of KMWorld.

KeyMark Inc, a document management systems integrator of advanced capture, BPM and content management solutions, announces the addition of MavBridge™ to their automated mailroom solution. Mavro Imaging developed MavBridge™ to provide full tracking, monitoring and reporting on the productivity of OPEX scanning machines. "We are extremely excited to partner with Mavro Imaging to extend and add value to the mailroom solutions we offer to our customers," said Ed McQuiston, VP of Sales at KeyMark. "Mavro's unique focus on providing tools allowing customers to leverage mailroom processing analytics enables end users to adjust processes and staffing in real time utilizing the MavBridge™ tool."

XyEnterprise has released ContentaView 3.6, an update to its software solution suite for the delivery of interactive, textual and multimedia content via CD-ROM or the Web.This new version features a powerful Web-based update server, providing a universal means for updating all digital publications with a simple Internet connection. The company explains that the updated server in ContentaView 3.6 makes it fast and easy to push content updates from the server to the desktop and ensures that users are working with the correct version of their publication. Further, it enables unattended updates to be performed at pre-determined intervals. Because these new features in ContentaView 3.6 are Web-based, they do not require any additional hardware or software.Also included in ContentaView 3.6 is a tracking mechanism that compiles an audit trail of every user who connects to the server and every update that is downloaded. This tracking mechanism provides up-to-date information about all users along with the publications, versions and historical information in each client record.

The Stellent® Universal Content Management architecture offers customers the only solutionsupporting each aspect of content management — document management, Web contentmanagement, collaboration, records management and digital asset management — within asingle, common product architecture. Stellent Consulting's Implementation Advisor Offeringprovides dedicated Stellent expertise to your project throughout the entire lifecycle of theimplementation. This offering is ideal for a customer or partner who possesses the necessaryresources to implement their Stellent solution, but is interested in some expert project oversight.The Stellent Implementation Advisor will review and provide feedback on the project plan,monitor the overall project plan and execution and help customers effectively use the functionalityoffered in Stellent's Universal Content Management.

SchemaLogic: SchemaLogic Enterprise Suite     SchemaLogic is a leading provider of Business Semantics Management (BSM) solutions. Our solution provides a framework that enables companies to model the structures and relationships of business semantics that define corporate knowledge and content. We facilitate dynamic changes to the business semantic models through a Web-based governance and collaboration process that enables participation across organizational, corporate and industry boundaries.      SchemaLogic enables enterprises to increase competitive advantage and reduce operational costs through better information management, increased data quality and more agile, intelligent business decisions. SchemaLogic has licensed its solution to some of the best known and largest companies in the world.SchemaLogic, Inc. 620 Kirkland Way, Suite 100 Kirkland, WA 98033

A Web CMS survey conducted by the University of California at Davis (preliminary results of which were released October 22, 2007) made official what many of us suspected all along: Even the best minds in the world can't agree on how to do content management. Of the 81 (out of 129) respondents who are currently using a Web CMS, roughly 20% (18 respondents) have rolled their own solution. The other 63 institutions are using 39 different branded solutions. The fragmentation of this market is really quite stunning. Can you imagine 63 colleges using 39 different word processor programs? Quantitatively, the UCD numbers are a bit on the thin side. What survey lacks in statistical significance, however, it makes up for in qualitative poignancy. The comments page makes interesting reading. The usual themes emerge: Know your requirements up front. Get buy-in from all constituencies, not just IT. Budget for training. Expect things to take longer than you thought

Tarrant County, Texas chose ViewDirect TCM from Mobius Management Systems to integrate and streamline records management and other mission-critical applications. The implementation has dramatically improved departmental productivity and customer service and has saved the County approximately $3.27 million over four years. Submitted by Mobius Management Systems

Stellent, Inc. (www.stellent.com) is global provider of content management software solutions that drive rapid success for customers by enabling fast implementations and generating quick, broad user adoption. With Stellent, customers can easily deploy multiple line-of-business applications as Web sites, call centers, dealer extranets, compliance initiatives, accounts payable imaging and claims processing scale the technology to support enterprisewide content management needs.Stellent® Business Process Management connects all enterprise systems to efficiently manage end-to-end business processes. By enabling the automatic routing and management of transaction information like purchase orders, claims, invoices and applications, Stellent BPM helps businesses expand the corporate environment to anyone virtually anywhere, streamlining work steps and improving communication between all users.Stellent, Inc. 7777 Golden Triangle Drive Eden Prairie MN 55344

We pay a lot of attention to content integration, because the emergence of best practices here promises to solve a lot of enterprise content management problems. Nevertheless, there is a growing body of evidence that -- like other content disciplines -- the key to effective content integration is developing an ethos of information sharing within the enterprise. Consider some recent analysis from academia (by way of the excellent Windley Newsletter. Donald Marchand (an Information Science professor in Switzerland) argues that you can buy all the technical solutions you want, but what differentiates successful content integrators is that they instill a culture of information sharing...Read more about Marchand's latest book at Governing.com