Content Management implementation

The Enterprise CMS vendor Vignette announced the availability of a new service called QuickSite. The new offering from Vignette Professional Services (VPS) is designed to do exactly what it sounds like: quickly launch web sites and simplify the Vignette Content Management (VCM) implementation process. The QuickSite service is said to be able to deliver a working implementation of Vignette “within weeks.”

In his latest quarterly essay about interaction design, Henrik Olsen writes about "The promised land of prototyping". Olsen lists the many advantages of the approach, including how it satisfies customers' wish to see quick results. His advice particularly applies to content management, search, and portal projects, where prototyping can reduce endemic scope creep and provide a master plan for implementation (which Henrik also mentions as advantages). Prototyping also comes in handy during vendor evaluations. Nevertheless prototyping is sometimes avoided: some regard it as a waste of time and the word also has a negative connotation in some regions of the world. In that event, use the phrase "proof-of-concept" instead, because Olsen is right, there are no downsides to prototyping.

Stellent® Universal Content Management offersa comprehensive set of content managementfunctionalities in a single architecture with a singleuser interface. To aid in the implementation of thistechnology, Stellent Consulting provides deepproduct expertise to help you successfully implementyour Stellent solution. Our team helps organizationsmaximize productivity, enhance performance andprovide a rapid return on investment.Stellent Consulting's Implementation ScopingOffering is designed for customers who have aspecific project in mind and are interested in a moredetailed understanding of the time, resources, risksand costs associated with that project. This offeringprovides customers with a detailed and accurateunderstanding of the task at hand.

In order to gain control of its multi-site chaos, the United States Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) hired EVOLVENT, a systems integrator and Stellentreseller/implementation partner, to help evaluate, select, and implement a content management system that would enable the organization to consolidate its multiple Web sites onto one common architecture. Stellent Universal Content Management fit the bill. Submitted by Stellent

StepTwo's James Robertson helpfully deconstructs the concept of "content interoperability" in a new whitepaper published today. One immediate conclusion is that that "integration" can mean many different things, encompassing at least 4 different architectural tiers. The other inevitable conclusion is the relative dearth of mature standards out there. Integrating content management systems today remains, with some exceptions, an exercise in experimentation; that's why we're hopeful that organizations like CM Pros can begin to capture and label the implementation patterns across vendor solutions...

US federal IT budgets continue to expand, but not evenly across departments and programs, and spending for non-security IT projects falls under unprecedented scrutiny today. This means that -- despite substantial vendor attention -- large government agencies face the same dilemma that confounds major enterprises seeking content management solutions: roll the dice on a huge implementation or tolerate a potpourri of low-cost solutions at departmental and workgroup levels. A recent article in Federal Computer Week plumbs the issue...Read the FCW piece

Today CMS Watch officially kicks off a formal training program. In conjunction with AIIM, we are providing classroom workshops (leading to official AIIM designations) in Information Organisation & Access (IOA) and Business Process Management (BPM).I'm very excited about these new courses. CMS Watch undertook the coursework development under the guidance of AIIM's Educational Advisory Group, and both organizations will be leading courses throughout North America, Europe, and (next year) Asia-Pacific. Here's why these courses are so terribly important. What are the two pillars of successful content technology implementations? Content Analysis and Process Analysis. Without those two skills, effectively deployed, all the technology in the world won't help you. Yet, there is a worldwide shortage of proficiency and experience in both areas. As an industry, we really need to grow the talent base here. That's what these courses do