Enterprise portal packages
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.
As if you didn't need an excuse to visit Monterey, CA, USA next January, check out Jared Spool's "Web App Summit." Quite surely the achilles' heel of every technology space we cover -- from Web CMS to Enterprise Search and Portals -- is poor usability. These software products are now fundamentally web applications, and as such, shouldn't there be a rich body of knowledge for making them more effective? Remember that as a customer, the burden falls to you, regrettably, to create truly usable UIs, whatever packages you deploy. Consider going to this summit to get a jump-start...
Open Source vendor eXo recently announced a new version of their portal package. According to eXo Platform CEO Benjamin Mestrallet the new 2.0 release has a 100% AJAX based user interface, which by design should resemble a desktop-like UI. "Current personal pages like Netvibes are also in that trend and introduce more interaction with the user but that is just a transition phase to a full OS environment inside the browser," says Mestrallet. I remain sceptical of portal dashboard interfaces, but take a look at a couple of screenshots of the new release and judge for yourself. As readers of the Enterprise Portals Report know, eXo excels mainly at the simpler scenarios. Version 2, while still only in alpha, does not seem to change this.
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