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On the heels of its acquisition by Open Text, Vignette plans an imminent introduction of VCM 8.0, a key component of the Vignette Web Experience foundation, which is designed to empower marketers and business users to manage media-rich, global Web properties.Vignette says VCM 8.0 allows organizations to easily create and manage an engaging online experience while relieving IT of basic, day-to-day Web responsibilities. Reportedly, a novice user will be able to build Web sites in minutes rather than hours while maintaining brand consistency. VCM 8.0 also includes productivity-enhancing capabilities such as personalized toolbars, favorite shortcuts and workspaces that recall user preferences.

Open Text™, a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), recently announced the latest versions of Open Text Desktop Viewer and Open Text Thin Client Viewer, with expanded support for new file formats. The solutions help enterprises lower costs and improve productivity by providing a simple way to manage the creation, capture, viewing, markup and publishing of content across departments and the enterprise. Using the Open Text Thin Client Viewer, customers can view, share, distribute and collaborate on documents online with partners, suppliers and customers via a Web browser.

Web CMS vendor Interwoven recently announced that 10,000 members have signed up for its Developer Network. That's an impressive number, though some recent expansion doubtless comes from licensees of the various products that Interwoven has acquired in its race to become an ECM vendor. Of course, TeamSite developers can use all the help they can get, when performing even simple administrative tasks in the CMS requires invoking obscure perl scripts from a command line. But a large, committed community can make the obscure more transparent. And Interwoven has built such a community -- even out of necessity. We laud them for it...More about Interwoven DevNet

In the past year, product vendors across the ECM spectrum -- from portals to document management to web content management -- have picked up on the demand for collaborative tools. After all, what is an "enterprise" document, a corporate website, an Intranet dashboard, if not a collaborative venture? Witness Documentum buying eRoom, Stellent building its own tools, and now Interwoven collaborating with iManage (which IWOV is presenting as a DM solution). CMS vendors, as always, will have problems integrating disparate content repositories, and the tools are still a bit weak in terms of realtime collaboration. Also, this is an area where the platform vendors (especially Oracle and Microsoft) are staking a major claim. All this makes buyer choices more interesting...Read about the new Interwoven-iManage alliance

See how we're changing the playing field...free Webinar Tuesday, August 7, 2:00 PM ESTThe Enterprise Content Management (document imaging, document management, content management, etc.) market has become stagnant over the last few years with few, if any, vendors offering real innovation or investing in technology to deliver full-featured solutions, compelling user experiences, or business application integration.Clearview has redefined ECM with the first contemporary solution designed to deliver rich yet easy-to-use ECM functionality to every desktop throughout your organization. Leveraging newer technology that paves the way for innovation, Microsoft® has raised the bar on classic ECM with Office 2007 and SharePoint® Server 2007. Clearview is the first ECM vendor to uniquely encapsulate this new functionality into a comprehen-sive solution designed to bring a fresh change and true innova-tion into ECM deployment and usability.

How to handle web content -- especially dynamic pages -- represents one of the thornier Records Management (RM) problems facing enterprises today. At least two "ECM" vendors are trying to attack the problem: Documentum, through a re-released "Compliance" edition, and Vignette, by dint of its TOWER Technology acquisition (TOWER touts a patent for capturing web visitor sessions). As always, your RM policies and how you implement them are going to have a greater impact on your success than the software you throw at it -- and don't dismiss the potentially monstrous storage implications here. But we may be seeing a trend. Previously only health care and insurance companies seemed to care about web records...now other industries and public agencies have begun to show more interest... Documentum "Compliance"   Vignette "WebCapture"

TOWER Software: TRIMContext 6     TRIM Context 6, AIIM E-DOC Magazine 2006 Best of Show award winner for ECM Suites, is a unified Enterprise Content Management solution capable of managing and securing the full range of corporate information assets through its complete lifecycle and beyond. In a single application TRIM Context incorporates: Document management, email management, Web content management, collaboration, process management and records management. TOWER Software's TRIM Context 6 solution maintains strict compliance with international legislative and corporate standards, including; US DoD 5015.2-STD, ISO 2788, ISO 15489.1-2002, ISO 15489. 2-2002, TNA (UK) PRO II and AS 4390-1996.TOWER Software 12012 Sunset Hills Road Suite 510 Reston, VA 20190

The agglomeration of ECM vendors proceeds apace as stock-flush Web content management solutions providers continue to buy related technologies. This time it's Vignette acquiring DM/RM player Tower Technology. The deal makes sense from a check-the-analyst-box perspective, since Vignette previously had no play in this year's hot market, regulatory compliance tools. From a technical perspective, it could be an OK match as well (both have recently transitioned to Java, though Tower not as completely). But we still counsel would-be enterprise content management buyers to exercise caution: in the near term (12-18 months) these acqusitions are more about cross-selling customer bases than offering truly integrated suites...Vignette announces the acquisition

It just so happens that Interwoven and Vignette are both looking. Vignette's Thomas Hogan is moving on to HP Software (one of the companies occasionally rumored to acquire a content management vendor), while Interwoven's Martin Brauns is retiring, for the 2nd time. Both announcements came today, when simultaneously both companies reported decent Q4 earnings (Vignette, Interwoven), rounding out successive years of steady but very modest growth. Hogan and Braun are respected in the community, but perhaps it's a good time for change at both companies. Neither vendor can seem to break the $200m annual revenue barrier, and as CMS Report readers know, their flagship Web content management tools remain the weaker links in their ECM product suites.

An Encore Performance By Popular Demand! Wednesday, June 20, 2007 @ 1:00 PM ESTThe attendance and response at our previous webinar was so overwhelming, we just had to do it again!As newer technology paves the way for innovation, Microsoft® has raised the bar on classic ECM with Office 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007. Clearview is redefining the ECM world order with a new, fresh approach that is built upon, leveraging, and extending the new wave of Microsoft technology and innovation.For registration and additional information, download the Webinar brochure.

After walking back from the financial brink, Day keeps advancing. As is the often the case, the most notable pieces of the latest release of its CMS, Communique 3.5, are a bit hidden. We think it's significant that the product is now architected to run in 3rd-party Appservers rather than a generic JVM (though you can still expect to see a lot of server-side ECMAScript under the covers). And WebDAV support makes it more contributor-friendly. Like FatWire, Day now ships its own IDE, too; just exactly why vendors do this remains something of a mystery to us...Read about the product