Out-of-the-box portal

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.

United Planet, a leading developer of Enterprise Portal software in Europe, has introduced a Lotus Notes Business Adapter for its out-of-the-box portal, intranet and web application software, Intrexx Xtreme. The Adapter will simplify the development of web applications, web services and process management for the Intrexx Xtreme Lotus Notes community. Commenting on the launch, Alexander Marsch, managing director of United Planet Limited, said: “Many businesses have standardised on Lotus Notes for the administration of their extensive data records. Our Lotus Notes Business Adapter will enable these companies to use Domino Server data records in their enterprise portals and integrate existing Lotus Notes data into new or production systems more easily. The creation of a portal interface for Lotus Notes will provide a central access point for important information across the business and increase usability for end users across the board.”
Can open-source CMS packages scale? If the newly recast theater portal, Playbill.com, is any indication, the answer is, "Yes, with effort." The new version of Playbill is powered by a load-balanced Apache cluster running Midgard, backed by MySQL and an open-source ad server. Playbill.com gets hit hard by an international audience, typically seeing several hundred thousand unique visitors a day. Such is the flexibility of PHP and Midgard that Playbill was able to incorporate a variety of apps (catalog, actor search, etc.) all under one administrative framework. But as we've said repeatedly, open-source CMS packages are not out-of-the-box, and Midgard is no exception. The new Playbill site spent well over a year in development...Go to Playbill