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ECM (Enterprise content management ) - is a set of technologies used to capture, store, preserve and deliver content and documents and content related to organizational processes. ECM tools allow the management of an organization's unstructured information, wherever that information exists.
ECM employed the technologies and strategies of content management to address business process issues, such as records and auditing, knowledge sharing, personalization and standardization of content, and so on.
Today comes news that SDL is acquiring Idiom, Inc. for US$21.7 million. Idiom was one of the first global information management systems (GIMS) to jump on the DITA bandwagon and they did it in a big way, forging partnerships with CCMS vendors Astoria Software and XyEnterprise CCMS, and authoring tools JustSystems XMetaL and PTC Arbortext Editor. While SDL's GIMS and Idiom often went head-to-head as competitors vying for content management integration, when it came to XML-based content component management, Idiom frequently won because of it's strong XML and DITA support. So in light of SDL's recent moves, SDL now supports a variety of different tools in this space: Acquisition of Tridion (web content component management system) Minority share investment in Trisoft (multichannel content component system) Acquisition of Idiom (strong support of XML-based global information management)
It's been a busy month at CMS Watch. Today we announce the release of another evaluation report, The XML & Component Content Management Report 2008. Developed in conjunction with The Rockley Group, the report evaluates 14 component content management vendors and 5 XML editor tools. From today's release about the report:"Component Content Management (CCM) technology allows enterprises to manage text content as componentized chunks of information rather than whole documents or web pages. It has become increasingly important to modern enterprises, especially given the rapid emergence of the DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) standard. However, CCM technology remains largely the domain of a wide collection of smaller software vendors targeting narrower use cases..." Subscribers will receive copy shortly; others can download a free sample here.
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