Enterprise content management systems

Alfresco Software, the leader in open source enterprise content management (ECM), recently announced the expansion of its North and South American partner program for system integrators (SI) in response to increasing demand. As open source economics continue to create new opportunities for SIs, the lack of upfront license fees for Alfresco ECM also enables enterprise customers to fund more projects and allocate more budget and resources to project delivery.

It's been a while since we heard from Laserfiche, the company that was then busy launching its enterprise content management system Rio.However, recently Laserfiche announced the availability of  Weblink 8, which they say, will significantly expand Rio by enabling developers to build a portal site without having to bother with any of the tiresome coding usually associated with such projects. This additional product adds management capabilities to public web portals and should make Rio and WebLink itself an attractive prospect, particularly in the area of web content management and document management.

Interwoven has enhanced its TeamSite and LiveSite Solutions to provide faster and better online experiences. The new features enable marketers to focus on getting quality content to the right audience faster than ever. Out of the Box Building Blocks for TeamSite TeamSite 6.7.2, Interwoven’s flagship enterprise content management system has some new features that enable fast creation of web pages including landing pages, complete websites and microsites.

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

As the volume of content continues to explode, com- panies have been forced to find ways to get that content under control, and have invested significant time, energy and money on various types of content management systems and repositories.At FatWire, we believe that companies do not derive value from content by simply tucking it neatly and safely away in a repository. Content management is not an "end"; it is a "means to an end". If companies want to realize the maximum value from enterprise content, they must put content to work.More specifically, significant ROI is achieved from Internet-based applications that influence the behavior of the organization's key stakeholders—its customers, partners, and employees—persuading them to take actions that allow them to achieve their goals, while simultaneously allowing the company to achieve its business objectives.

Stellent® Universal Content Management offers a comprehensive set of content managementfunctionalities in a single architecture with a single user interface. Stellent Consulting's PerformanceAnalysis Offering helps customers maximize the productivity of this solution by tuning theconfiguration of architecture components for optimal performance.Stellent's Performance Analysis is an ideal offering for existing enterprise customers who have complexinfrastructure or who have begun to experience performance slowdown with content or traffic volumegrowth. It is also helpful for existing customers who are experiencing technical issues with theircurrent system.

UnumProvident had been utilizing a content management system to support its employee intranet for nearly three years when it decided to make a change. The company was implementing the Active Directory security system across its enterprise, and the content management solution it had been using did not easily integrate with this new system. Submitted by Stellent

In order to maintain their reputation for developing superior solutions for their customers, Perseco wished to reduce costs, create efficiency, provide disaster recovery, and establish a higher level of customer service. To accomplish these goals they turned to IDT to help them introduce a content and workflow management system with enterprise-wide capability to the organization. Submitted by Integrated Docuement Technologies, Inc.

To maintain its leadership in the industry,Banco de Bogotá decided to implement anenterprise content management solution asa means of increasing efficiency. The bank'sgoal was to manage every document type in anintegrated system, making information readilyavailable to multiple users. It also wanted toautomate the process of gathering information, reduce document retrieval times, and providefaster customer service.

It falls to records managers to point out important distinctions between a simple archive and a true RM system. It falls to the National Archives and Records Administration to set standards for both archives and records for the U.S. federal government. But as longtime observer J. Timothy Sprehe points out, NARA's recent recent "Federal Enteprise Architecture Records Management Profile" seems focused very much on "A" and very little on "R." Meanwhile some federal website managers complain about guidance suggesting that all .gov web pages are records. But if everything is a record, good luck managing it; the whole purpose of RM is to distinguish and label the truly important stuff. In an article on this site today, Alan Pelz-Sharpe makes the case for lighterweight "retention" in a world where enterprises cannot implement formal RM schemes across all their bulging content stores

This document explains why the development of an enterprise content strategy should be a precursor tothe implementation or integration of content systems. This endeavor requires organizations to identify thetypes of content available across the enterprise as related to the spectrum of business processes andusers that require digital information

EMC2 where information lives®EMC Documentum provides the industry's broadest set of content management capabilities on a common, unified enterprise content management platform. Virtually every tool you need to improve information management is available within the Documentum content management stack.Documentum is standards-based, with mature, well documented APIs and the largest community of systems integrators and developers with content management expertise. Documentum also provides unique capabilities that connect electronic information management to the management of physical documents. Key features of these solutions include:

Many companies use content management systems to facilitate collaboration on important projects, but are they making sure this information is well protected? Content management systems keep information from outsiders but can't safeguard this data once it's transmitted to outside parties. Integrating enterprise rights management (ERM) capabilities into content management systems eliminates these vulnerabilities. Submitted by Authentica

Since being coined last year, the concept of "folksonomies" has lit up blogosphere. A fairly practical discussion has ensued on the CM Pros listserv (membership required). It turns out that the enterprise pull and tug over the category terms underneath most content management systems often resembles a kind of folk effort after all. A good content analyst will also carefully consider the folk-supplied terms in website search engine logs. Meanwhile, several prominent information architects have gotten together a group blog about tagging -- called "You're It!" -- to ask and try to answer some basic questions, including whether tagging is ultimately futile. Bob Doyle argues passionately that it is not. Experienced content management leaders know at least this: keep tagging very simple for contributors...