EZ Publish - ECM Tools review.

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.

Fact: Open source business models can be profitable and consistent. eZ Systems’ open source Web CMS — eZ Publish — has raked up an impressive triple-digit growth and double-digit renewal rates for the first half of 2008. This is the first time eZ Systems achieved a profitable bottom line. It took 8 years and more than $US 10 million of investments. Who needs to sell a product, when you can just as easily monetize support, maintenance and guarantees? Well, eZ Systems had it all figured out for the first half of 2008.

If you speak German, you can enjoy a new printed magazine about the open-source CMS, Typo3. In December, T3N Magazin came out with its second edition, featuring articles like "Typo3 version 4 preview" and "Load-balancing." Publishing a print magazine about a specific product is typically only something for IBM, Microsoft, or Oracle. I wish T3N good luck! If you prefer to read online there are also six Typo3 case studies on contentmanager.de (auf Deutsch), along with related articles and a list of Typo3 implementation partners. It seems to me that Europe is ahead of the pack when it comes to open-source CMS. Typo3 has a growing following (evidenced by the new magazine), but so do OpenCMS, Plone and eZ Publish as well.