Content integration solutions

Vital Path, the market leader in electronic document content integration and migration solutions, announces its premier product, PathBuilder, will be deployed at one of the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical companies for content consolidation. PathBuilder will migrate and consolidate mission critical content from Livelink, eRoom, Documentum and SharePoint. A return on investment of less than six months is expected, with the bulk of the savings coming from the retirement of legacy systems and reduction of annual maintenance costs.

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

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...

ApplicationXtender Integration Module (AXIM) delivers an unsurpassed, image-enabling technology that allows virtually any business application to be easily andseamlessly integrated with the Documentum ApplicationXtender Content Management solution without programming. With this innovative solution, knowledge workers can retrieve business documents and information from the ApplicationXtender repository without leaving their desktop business systems.

Altova accelerates development and integration projects with software, services, and solutions that enhance productivity and maximize results. As an innovative, customer-focused company and the creator of XMLSpy, MapForce, and other leading software development and data integration tools, Altova is the choice of over 1.5 million clients worldwide and virtually every Fortune 500 company. With customers ranging from vast development teams in the world's largest organizations to progressive one-person shops, Altova's line of software applications and custom-tailored professional and educational services fulfills a broad spectrum of business needs.Concerning document, content, and knowledge management, Altova products and services assist in the creation, dissemination, and utilization of information throughout the organization. Among other things, information architects rely on Altova's wares to facilitate the collection, structuring, federation, and presentation of mission critical data

The benefits of enterprise content management solutions are well understood. Content as unstructured data in theform of documents, Web pages, images, audio, video, enterprise reports, XML components, and so on, is todayomnipresent and growing at enormous rate. The capability to manage content can greatly improve productivity andquality, lower costs, or enforce rules for business processes involving content.Submitted by EMC Documentum

TRIM CONTEXTTRIM Context is TOWER Software¹s integrated Electronic Document and Records Management platform for Enterprise Content Management. Out of the box, TRIM provides a single platform to manage business information throughout its complete lifecycle. TRIM Context includes: Document management, E-mail management, Process management, Records management, Web Content Management and Integration with Line of Business Applications.TRIM Context is a proven solution used by hundreds of organizations, and thousands of people, around the world to manage and secure their vital information. TOWER Software's powerful solutions have been meeting the information management needs of government and corporate enterprises for over 20 years.

People make critical business decisions every day and need the confidence to know those decisions are based on accurate and reliable information. Organizations rely on LexisNexis every day to access an unmatched collection of authoritative news, business, legal, public records and tax information to get the answers they need.And you can have those answers delivered the way you want them—in a way that allows you to create new insights and positively impact the way you do business. LexisNexis is known for its Content Integration Solutions, which combine the premium content of its vast information warehouse with leading technology to help you put relevant information in the right context for your employees and site visitors.LexisNexis® Publisher delivers pre-determined content and alerts directly to the intranet via easy-to-use administrative tools that allow for format flexibility resulting in a truly integrated, relevant rich intra/internet experience for the end user.

This VAR built a nationwide business selling software that integrates content management platformswith ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems. Used with permission from Business Solutions magazine