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XML Content Management Made Easier

2005-03-02T08:44:00.000-08:00

Although the XML market has so far been focused mostly on data management and Web services, XML also works well for content management. With the right tools, it's a natural for tracking information created by humans, including the contents of product manuals, technical material, Web sites, and program documentation.

Blast says Xmetal Reviewer's real-time collaboration feature is unique, along with its ability to work with native XML files. The product includes integration for Word documents; integration with external applications can be done through APIs on the XMetaL Reviewer server.

According to John Holden, a senior research analyst with the Butler Group, features of the product that make it stand out include the Web-based user interface and its embedded contextual collaboration. That last feature, Holden says, can help make XML authoring part of a company's overall business processes.

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Interwoven ECM Replaces Multiple Homegrown Systems at Canada's National Public Broadcaster

2005-02-28T20:20:00.000-08:00

Interwoven, Inc. announced that CBC.ca, the main English-language website of
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has chosen Interwoven ECM to
underpin the production and management of its online news, information and
entertainment content. CBC will use Interwoven's Web Content Management,
Digital Asset Management, and Content Intelligence products to accelerate and
automate its publishing processes, ultimately improving the end-user
experience and increasing site usage.

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MerseyBIO Selects Autonomy to Support Biotechnology Network

2005-02-28T20:16:00.000-08:00

Autonomy Corporation announced that MerseyBIO, a biotechnology incubator organization, has implemented Autonomy's technology to power a network for the biotechnology community in Merseyside. The service, called esymbio, which has gone live this morning, aims to create an infrastructure that will foster collaboration between biotechnology companies, investors and public bodies to drive the development of the region's life sciences sector. The project is backed by public institutions such as the University of Liverpool and the North West Genetic Knowledge Park.

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Stay Tuned For More Microsoft Server Changes

2005-02-27T21:08:00.000-08:00

The company is moving toward converging SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) and Content Management Server (CMS) functionality into a single "server system," due in 2006, CRN has learned.

Microsoft officials have discussed the plans so much that some partners thought the move had been definitively announced. It has not.

SPS, the focal point of Microsoft's collaboration strategy, hosts departmental collaboration sites and deals with Web content. CMS is more geared for traditional content management.

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RedDot Solutions Named to KMWorld’s “100 Companies that Matter Most in Knowledge Management”

2005-02-25T20:11:00.000-08:00

RedDot Solutions announced that it has been selected for the second consecutive year as one of the "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management" by KMWorld, a leading industry publication.

"This award reinforces RedDot’s leadership status within the enterprise content management industry," said Detlef Kamps, president of RedDot Solutions. "It is an honor to recognized by KMWorld readers, colleagues, KM practitioners, theorists, analysts, and our clients."

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Open Text’s Livelink Improves Processes, Reduces Costs and Increases Productivity

2005-02-25T20:03:00.000-08:00

Open Text™ Corporation announced that Airtricity, an international leading renewable energy company, has chosen Open Text’s Livelink to provide a framework for enhanced internal collaboration and the controlled management of documentation throughout the organization and supply chain.

Moore added: “We see Livelink as an essential component in delivering key elements of our IT Strategy. We selected Livelink to help increase efficiency, improve internal and external communication and improve services we offer both within the organization, and to our partners and customers.”

The project is in its first phase, with Controlled Document migration currently taking place and user groups going “live” as documentation is migrated. A detailed requirements gathering exercise has been completed as well as training in Livelink’s core functionality for Airtricity’s staff at several of its locations.

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Ektron Named to KMWorld's '100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management'

2005-02-25T19:56:00.000-08:00

Ektron Inc. announced that is been selected as one of the "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management" by KMWorld, a leading industry publication. KMWorld editors, knowledge management practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors, and customers compiled the 2005 list to recognize each company's velocity of innovation.

"We are very pleased to be recognized in KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management for 2005," said Bill Rogers, founder and CEO, Ektron, Inc. "In 2004 we made significant strides in our effort to enable organizations to better manage people, process and information. This acknowledgment provides the validation that our content management solutions are innovative and continue to address the real-world needs of organizations."

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WebSideStory Announces Record Fourth Quarter

2005-02-24T14:36:00.000-08:00

WebSideStory, Inc. (Nasdaq: WSSI), a leading provider of on-demand web analytics, today announced results of operations for the quarter and twelve months ended December 31, 2004 and confirmed its guidance for 2005. These results are unaudited and are subject to adjustment, and final, audited results could differ.

"We are pleased to announce another record quarter, growing our core HBX subscription business by 48% compared to last year and exceeding the high end of our guidance on both revenue and earnings before stock-based compensation," said Jeff Lunsford, WebSideStory chairman and CEO. "The digital marketing space continues to flourish, and our agreement to acquire Atomz and planned roll-out of the WebSideStory Active Marketing Suite provide great opportunities for continuing to capture that growth. We are also proud of having our continuing market leadership position in the web analytics category validated by receiving the highest score and only 'excellent' rating from InfoWorld magazine in its recent review of web analytics products."

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Acartus Earns EMC Centera Certification

2005-02-24T14:34:00.000-08:00

ApertureONE solves the challenges of managing fixed content historically sealed within inaccessible proprietary media such as optical disc and mainframe archives. ApertureONE captures all raw input types, normalizes them to digital standard(a) PDF, and stores them to either a centralized ERM repository or to an enterprise content management (ECM) platform, such as those offered by EMC Documentum. ApertureONE's content capture also includes migrating back-file archives from proprietary formats, enabling retirement of legacy archival applications.

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Unified Business Intelligence

2005-02-24T14:31:00.000-08:00

For example, structured data enables carmakers to determine when a warranty repair is made, what was broken, what model was affected and the age of the vehicle repaired. But, by analyzing the unstructured data in the comments field of a warranty claim, the manufacturer can identify the set of circumstances that may have caused a problem. Reading through thousands of warranty claims is not feasible, but using a text analytics tool, the manufacturer can analyze all of this unstructured data to pull out potential root causes for warranty repairs. The combined result, in this case, is that the carmaker knows what repairs were made, when, how old the vehicle was and what the root cause was.

To effectively realize the benefit of integrating structured and unstructured data, BI must include an integrated view of structured and unstructured data. Advances in standards, hardware, software and storage are making this integrated view possible. The relational leaders such as IBM, Microsoft and Oracle are already raising the stakes by offering better support for unstructured content. With its acquisition of Venetica in August of 2004, IBM Software Group's Data Management unit extended its access to unstructured data sources. For its part, Oracle provides enhanced support unstructured content management with Oracle 10g. XML's emerging prevalence along with better, faster text analysis tools make tagging unstructured data and integrating it into structured data sets a reality.

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Content Management at the Department of Energy

2005-02-23T19:07:00.000-08:00

"When the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) called for a renovation of the Department's signature Web site, energy.gov, the plans were ambitious: blow up and reorganize the site's organization and navigation, develop a new look and feel to bring the site a high level of sophistication and polish, and deploy a publishing system that DOE's content team can use to create and maintain the site easily and efficiently, at less cost."

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Gilbane Content Management Conference in Amsterdam Brings International Experts Together

2005-02-23T19:03:00.000-08:00

The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies to take place in Amsterdam at the RAI Centre, 24-26 May 2005, includes an unprecedented gathering of international experts in content management technologies.

"Our educational conferences includes everything IT Strategists and project teams need to know in a hype-free environment and offer insights into existing and upcoming technologies necessary to implement content management applications," said Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair. "Nothing can compare with the rich in-depth learning experience of being surrounded by subject matter experts and industry colleagues from all over the globe who are at various stages of implementing initial, or second or third projects that you can learn from."

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Autonomy Announces Strategic Acquisition of Revolutionary Structured Data Technology

2005-02-22T14:00:00.000-08:00

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU.) a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, and NCorp, the world's leader in structured data handling, today announced that Autonomy has acquired NCorp from private shareholders.

The acquisition of NCorp, the world's leader in structured data handling, extends Autonomy's unique capabilities and brings the power of Autonomy's Independent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) to all corporate assets - both structured and unstructured. Next generation technology combining Autonomy's award winning IDOL technology for unstructured information and NCorp's world class technology for structured information allows enterprises to fully integrate the processing and delivery of all enterprise content and confirms Autonomy as the world's leader for the intelligent processing of all enterprise content.

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FileNet Honors Top Enterprise Content Management Partners

2005-02-22T13:58:00.000-08:00

FileNet Corporation today announced the company's top business and technology partners recognized for developing innovative solutions using FileNet ECM and BPM technology. These awards were presented at FileNet's Insight 2005, the Company's annual conference held this year in Miami.

FileNet recognized five partners with "Innovative Solutions" awards in the key vertical markets the Company serves. Crowe Chizek won the Financial Services category with their loan processing solution. CGI-AMS won for its Sovera application for the Healthcare Insurance market. Accenture captured the award for the Government category with a tax processing solution. PTSI won the Manufacturing award for unifying the business processes of more than 40 companies that comprise Portugal Telecom Group for its shared services unit-- PT PRO. Soluziona won the Cross Industry category for a ManagedPay implementation at a leading international spirits, wine and quick service restaurant company in Canada to streamline the accounts payable process.

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Leading Law Firms and Corporate Legal Departments to Convene at Interwoven GearUp '05 ECM Solutions Conference

2005-02-22T13:56:00.000-08:00

Leading law firms and corporate legal departments from across the globe are expected to convene at the company's annual user event, GearUp '05, 'The ECM Solutions Conference' to be held at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, May 11-13, 2005. As the industry's leading ECM conference, GearUp '05 will bring together top law firms, corporate legal departments, partners and developers with a focus on how to implement ECM solutions, products and best practices for improved business processes,
collaboration, productivity and client service.

GearUp '05 will also provide attendees with a unique opportunity to network with key Interwoven legal partners. The PartnerNetwork Pavilion will showcase the latest technology innovations and services from numerous legal partners, as well as from the enterprise technology and systems integrator partner community.

"Interwoven is an important partner, and we're excited to not only attend GearUp, but to have the opportunity to showcase our legal solutions in the Partner Pavilion," said Peter Lesser, managing director at Kraft Kennedy & Lesser. "Given Interwoven's leadership position in the legal market, we're looking forward to a first-rate event with great networking opportunities."

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Relizon Selects North Plains for Its Digital Asset Management System

2005-02-22T13:53:00.000-08:00

North Plains Systems, a leading provider of digital asset management (DAM) software and solutions, announced today that The Relizon Company, one of North America's leading providers of business communication solutions, has selected North Plains' TeleScope(TM) Enterprise DAM solution to extend its document management and marketing services.

"North Plains brings application focus and domain knowledge to our contentmanagement initiatives," said Tony Bender, senior vice president and CIO of Relizon. "The applications and business communication services that we are deploying demanded a dedicated digital asset management system. TeleScope's
ability to support either centralized or distributed repositories gives us
tremendous flexibility in how we integrate with our ERP system."

"Digital asset management-enabled services are transforming the print and business communication industries," said Hassan Kotob, North Plains president and CEO. "TeleScope's proven XML and SOAP-based APIs will allow Relizon to easily manage their ERP integration and application development, making TeleScope a powerful content and services engine for Relizon's on-demand print and communications services."

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What Every Company Should Know About Email

2005-02-18T18:37:00.000-08:00

Management for Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance In simple terms, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) requires businesses to demonstrate effective corporate governance and information management controls. However, since the Act passed, it seems that just about everyone—lawyers, consultants, industry analysts and technology vendors —have jumped on the SOX compliance bandwagon with recommendations and products to sell.

The prospect of storing and retrieving email is daunting, as the sheer volume of email exchanged among enterprises is staggering. Recent research from the Radicati Group, Inc. states that the average corporate email user sends and receives 84 emails a day, equating to 10 MB per day of storage. This number is expected to rise to 15.8 MB per user, per day by 2008.

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Authentica Announces Active Rights Management Platform

2005-02-17T22:24:00.000-08:00

Authentica, Inc., a provider of enterprise rights management (ERM) solutions, has introduced its next-generation active rights management (ARM) platform, an integrated ERM solution that is designed to combine document and email protection in a single platform.

Authentica's ARM is intended to deliver a range of integration support, extending its benefits to enterprise compliance/archiving, content management, and mobile email applications. Authentica's ARM platform was developed to protect documents and email at rest, in transit, and even after distribution to recipients. Organizations can systematically identify, audit, and continuously control protected content as it flows into and out of an enterprise.

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CM Professionals Announces Second Semiannual Member Summit

2005-02-17T08:20:00.000-08:00

CM Professionals (CM Pros), a rapidly growing organization with members engaged in a wide spectrum of content management activities, industries, and geographies, today announced its second semiannual member Summit to be held in San Francisco on April 11, 2005.

"CM Professionals is growing rapidly worldwide," says Rockley. "The organization is committed to providing our members a voice on those topics that matter most to content management practitioners. Our 2005 mandate is to provide a solid infrastructure for sharing expertise and knowledge among members. The 2005 Spring Summit will provide a forum for participants to interact in intense, results-oriented discussions in key focus areas."

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BT LAUNCHES NEW MOBILE CONTENT MANAGEMENT VENTURE

2005-02-16T21:53:00.000-08:00

iO, a new venture jointly funded by British Telecommunications plc (BT) and New Venture Partners LLC (NVP), the corporate venturing firm, today announced its new service for managing and delivering mobile content.

iO's service is based on `carrier-grade' technologies, originally developed within BT, providing significant benefits for operators, content developers and consumers alike. Mobile network operators gain more rapid access to, and deployment of, a vast range of branded, global and local content (such as video, audio, MMS and SMS, among others) with minimal investment and risk. Operators can also manage marketing, pricing and billing through dynamic, operator-controlled, consumer portal interfaces (Web and WAP) while keeping control over the branding and presentation of customer interfaces.

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Picture Perfect Content Management

2005-02-16T11:47:00.000-08:00

Agfa Corp. has streamlined its processes for handling engineering documents by leveraging a content management solution that the company already had in place. The key to success: focus on enablement, not on automation.

Agfa came to focus on a class of products for product data management (PDM) offered primarily by the providers of solutions for computer-aided design (CAD). The company's CAD vendor proposed a $3 million pilot project using the provider's latest product lifecycle management (PLM) solution, and the vendor even went through a comprehensive return-on-investment process to demonstrate that Agfa would see an ROI within 18 months. But Holleran says that because the vendor had only recently acquired the PDM solution, he had doubts about the software's integration with the rest of the provider's PLM suite. Not to mention the $3 million price tag. "That didn't fly," Holleran states flatly.

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Content Management Confusion

2005-02-16T09:13:00.000-08:00

Content management is an important topic in an information economy. Disorganized information, or data without a reliable search or index is useless to information workers.

A lot is at stake, explains analyst Alan Pelz-Sharpe of Ovum. "Critical information is getting lost in the deluge." When information is lost, so are deals, customers, and revenues, so every business should pay attention. Unfortunately, as Pelz-Sharpe notes, this "is such a remarkably dull topic that keeping anyone's interest for more than a few minutes can be tough."

That's a kind of implicit advice to enterprise content management (ECM) vendors to gussy up their sales talk. Instead of discussing the efficiencies of filing, for example, vendors need to talk about what happens when, say, the right copy of a contract can't be located.

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Ektron CMS Powering Ticketmaster Extranet

2005-02-15T08:45:00.000-08:00

Ektron Inc., an innovator in Web content management and authoring software, today announced that Ticketmaster, the world's leading ticketing company, recently implemented Ektron's content management solution for its extranet. Ektron CMS offers Ticketmaster extranet users the ability to access information from a single source, easily and efficiently.

Together with IT Strategists, a technology and business consulting firm, Ticketmaster evaluated Web content management solutions that would enable their marketing staff to independently create and post content and found the Ektron solution to have a rich interface while speeding time to market with an easy to use Microsoft Word environment.

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Content Management for Everyone

2005-02-15T08:43:00.000-08:00

We're now seeing an evolution of the content management market, which is driving true enterprise deployments to everyone -- and for all the content -- in an organization. This evolution means that content management is not just about those 'content specialists' anymore, but about the rest of us who need some amount of content management functionality to complete parts of our everyday work -- from drafting a new business plan to sharing content with a virtual team - or getting a new business practice approved by multiple department heads.

The drivers of this change in the market are not new -- only more urgent. At every level in an organization there is real pain related to the lack of management of electronic content. But the straw that is really breaking the camel's back is the concern about managing content for business risk, compliance, and legal discovery. Executives are reminded daily (ten CEOs have now lost their jobs after investigations in New York state alone) about the risk posed by discoverable content like email, documents, or instant messages. Meanwhile, employees are experiencing content overload and finding it harder and harder to locate and collaborate on content to get their work done. To make matters worse, IT is fighting a losing battle to manage the explosion of content cost-effectively and to surface content through portals and applications into emerging service-oriented architectures. So, it hurts at all levels in the enterprise -- and that means it is time for a change.

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Top Businesses Unprepared for Data Protection Laws & Regulations

2005-02-14T15:20:00.000-08:00

McAfee today announced findings from research, which shows that senior IT decision makers in large corporations worldwide are unaware of their responsibilities under government regulation when it comes to email security.

The McAfee research also reveals that many organizations are potentially leaving themselves open to legal action and employee lawsuits by failing to filter certain types of content from email entering and leaving their network. While the majority of those questioned believe they have an obligation to protect employees from receiving offensive material, many do not have the solutions in place to block offensive content. Only 52% of those questioned block racist content and 54% block sexist emails. A business could be liable for employee emails with either racist, sexist or pornographic content.

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Adamind Showcases 3G Mobile Web Surfing, Content Management

2005-02-14T15:16:00.000-08:00

Adamind, announced today it will deliver three technology demonstrations jointly with selected partners at the 3GSM World Congress 2005.

Mobilitec’s mPower© suite, provides wireless operators a comprehensive end-to-end media service delivery solution through a flexible and secure content discovery, content management, service creation charging and download of all mobile media type and format. Adamind MediaSpire™ resides in the heart of the value chain and introduces central automatic transcoding, which makes the content services available to a dramatically wider range of devices. This removes the number one barrier to multimedia content services growth by supporting any end user devices. Services are now available to a vast majority of devices in the network.

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Hummingbird Unveils New Release of Enterprise Content Management Platform

2005-02-11T11:12:00.000-08:00

At its annual user summit held in Miami Beach,Fla., ECM solutions provider Hummingbird Ltd. unveiled its Hummingbird Enterprise 2005 content management platform, claiming it addresses three key market requirements.

“We flew from city to city in countries including Australia, Europe, U.S. and Canada. This was the largest thing we’ve ever undertaken, but we wanted to hear from our users what they wanted. It not only gave us context in what people are interested in, but it also established contacts to help us in development Web sessions. We could go back to some of those folks and ask them to try some of the implementations out.”

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ClearStory Systems Announces E-Mail Management Webinar

2005-02-10T16:40:00.000-08:00

ClearStory Systems a provider of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, is offering a free webinar for IT managers and compliance officers entitled “E-mail Archiving & Compliance.”

Information covered in this presentation includes:

• How effective e-Mail management can avoid legal costs, mitigate risk, and satisfy audit requirements.

• How recent high-profile litigation and regulatory mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compel companies to treat email as a corporate record

• Why a deletion policy is not your best option

• Considerations for choosing a system that will minimize liability, yet support legal discovery

• How a modern e-mail archive and compliance solution can help companies inform their knowledge management initiatives.

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Content Management Does Analytics: WebSideStory Acquires Atomz

2005-02-10T10:16:00.000-08:00

Web Content Management Analytics firm WebSideStory is acquiring Atomz, a provider of indexing and search services for Web Content.

"WebSideStory's acquisition of Atomz makes very good sense in light of this new product suite," said Robert Blumstein, Research Director of CRM Analytics for IDC Research, the premier global market intelligence and advisory firm in the information technology and telecommunications industries. "WebSideStory is taking advantage of its scalable, hosted platform and evolving its solution to a new level in a single stroke. This will present marketers with a broader and more attractive set of choices."

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Content Management Integrates With Nearline Storage

2005-02-10T10:10:00.000-08:00

Mobius Management Systems, provider of software for total content management (TCM), and Network Appliance, announced integration of Mobius ViewDirect software with NetApp NearStore disk-based nearline storage systems.

The integrated solution addresses customer challenges of managing growing volumes of diverse content while satisfying the need for rapid retrieval and high availability not possible with traditional tape and optical media.

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Waterloo Region deploys content management platform

2005-02-09T21:47:00.000-08:00

Waterloo, Ontario recently automated its paper-based content management processes as a way to improve public accountability via a corporate-wide electronic document and records management (EDRM) system from content management vendor Hummingbird Ltd.

Previously, the IT environment consisted of disparate servers that were responsible for different departments. From both a collaboration and records management perspective, Fletcher said the Region wanted the ability to exchange data across departments without having to copy and re-copy documents. “For example,” he said, “(previously) the Public Health department (could only) share data with the Social Services department via an e-mail attachment.”

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Managing Knowledge, Documents and Records: Building Smarter Systems

2005-02-09T17:11:00.000-08:00

More than 80% of the data coming out of businesses today goes uncataloged and unsearchable. Addtionally, many organizations that rely upon documents, law firms for example, have no reliable versioning systems for monitoring their document changes over time.

Ken Young over at Legal IT has a report on the changes taking place in content management, records management and knowledge management.

In recent years DM has been enhanced by the concept of ‘enterprise content management’ (ECM), which is defined as the technologies used to capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver content and documents related to business processes. Solutions in this growing niche stress continuity (24x7), staff collaboration, compliance and reduced costs through standardisation and centralisation.

"ECM is a term that is now grossly misused. In essence it is not a case of DM versus ECM because DM is effectively an element of ECM as is web content management services, asset management, portal, search, business services and so on. The key point is that industry researchers such as Gartner view document management as the most significant type of content management in the entire enterprise picture."

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Homestore could lead online real estate pack in 2005

2005-02-09T14:58:00.000-08:00

Innman News Reports that the buzz on Wall Street is that this year could belong to Homestore's Web Portal. Their profitability is approaching, and they may enter the lead generation business. The key indicator? That lies in a recent deal the online company made with real estate franchise giant NRT.

Homestore purchased Top Producer, which was a leading real estate sales and web content management system software company.

Homestore estimates it will make $3 million to $5 million in revenue this year from the NRT enhanced listing deal. And Think Equity, which provides research and investment banking services, noted the opportunity for enhanced listings is potentially worth more than $200 million per year to Homestore.

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Mirror Image To Address Information Lifecycle Management Summit West

2005-02-09T10:29:00.000-08:00

Mirror Image(R) Internet, Inc., announced that they will deliver a Content Management presentation as part of a panel discussion at the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Summit West 2005 taking place in Irvine, California.

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