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Thursday, Aug 28 2008

Was Mashable having website troubles? They have partnered with EdgeCast Networks, a content delivery network, to speed up the delivery of their social media news and information so you can get your fill of what’s happening in the blogosphere that much quicker. Can you tell the difference?

Wednesday, Aug 27 2008

Another one bites the dust — er — makes the list. KMWorld’s List of Trend Setters for 2008 also includes Ektron and their CMS400.Net content management solution.

Now you all know who Ektron is, they are the little guy that beat out the likes of Vignette, Microsoft, Open Text, Oracle, SDL Tridion, Sitecore, EMC and others for top spot in Gartner’s MarketScope for Web Content Management 2008. The only one they didn’t “beat” was Interwoven.

According to Hugh McKellar, KMWorld editor-in-chief, “Ektron has proven that they are committed to providing both quality and excellence in their solutions that benefit the customer experience.”

Other than winning all these awards, Ektron’s been pretty busy this year. They opened offices in Canada, brought social networking into the office as part of their solution offering, integrated CMS400.net with Silverlight, launched a new partner portal and more. Whew…busy little beavers aren’t they.

Now on version 7.5 of the web content management solution CMS400.Net, we expect to see even more from these guys over the next little while.

While we don’t argue with these vendors making the list — in fact, in most cases it’s easy to see why they do — it would be nice if KMWorld was a little more specific on what “trend setting” really means and how it applies to each vendor. Maybe we’ll see more detail in the Septemeber issue of the magazine when the list is released in full.

Houston developer Arche Solutions has launched a new modular Web CMS framework for developing and maintaining highly customized web solutions. Arche’s new offering is aimed at the small/medium size market and the modular approach will, they assure us, help keep deployment costs and development time to a minimum, while enabling a higher level of customization than rivals currently offer.

Tuesday, Aug 26 2008

The Social Media industry seems to get just a little bit bigger every hour and it’s amazing how many different vendors can come on the scene and offer products and solutions that can help us design and build communities of one sort or another.

As an enterprise though, you need to be sure you are working with the right solution provider. Someone who is not only selling you a service, but helping you truly understand why and how to implement it. This is where you see Awareness Networks — an on-demand social media platform for Web 2.0 communities provider — emerge as a front-runner. They have the right technology platform and what appears to be a wealth of knowledge and understanding to implement your community(s) the right way.

Monday, Aug 25 2008

Concursive has decided to provide users with the opportunity to use its flagship product, ConcourseSuite 5, for free while having avoided placing the many limitations that a user would normally expect from an offering like this. This package is a culmination of several separate modules — solutions like CRM, CMS and Collaboration — that have been brought together in a single solution to assist companies with managing information and enabling collaboration.

DocuLex announced the release of its Archive Studio software as a service (SaaS), a web-based content management product providing remote document access, permissions, printing and distribution. The service enables secure document warehousing and sharing for practical knowledge management and collaboration.

Friday, Aug 22 2008

Gilbane has released a report that any organization catering to the global community needs to have a look at. It’s entitled Multilingual Communications as a Business Imperative: Why Companies Need to Optimize the Global Content Value Chain — don’t be swayed by the less-than-captivating and very long title. It’s chock full of qualitative research on how global businesses are creating, managing and publishing multilingual content. The short answer is that they’re not.

Friday, Aug 22 2008

Nedstat, a European provider of web analytics, has added a new feature — live interactive segmentation — to its product Sitestat. Sitestat offers a wide range of reporting possibilities on campaigns, content and conversion.

Known for its recent partnership with SDL Tridion WCM system, Nedstat’s updated Sitestat now allows users to select any specific online visitor group and instantly focus in on their behavior, making it possible to better respond to consumer preferences and enable the advanced targeting of campaigns and content.

The eZ Publish system has received many updates from its developers. The latest release — eZ Publish 4.0.1 — has had over 300 bug fixes. While the fixes are plentiful, a significant fundamental issue with the URL aliasing system has been addressed as well.

Thursday, Aug 21 2008

So an integrated marketing platform provider went out and bought a web content management company. That was story several months ago for Alterian and Mediasurface. But now that it’s all said and done, what’s the plan going forward? Alterian lays out their new platform strategy.

Tell Drupal how they are doing by taking the State of Drupal 2008 Survey. The results will be presented by Dries Buytaert, Drupal’s founder, at DrupalCon Szeged 2008 conference in Szeged, Hungary, on August 27-30, 2008.

The goal of the survey is to better understand what Drupal needs to work on and how to prioritize all of that. It is mostly targeted towards Drupal developers. So, don’t delay, speak up and tell Drupal what you want!

Also, check out the Drupalers and survey-takers’ rants and ramblings about the survey and Drupal in general here. Quite a read…

When the results are released, we shall see if Buytaert was right in his predictions for Drupal to be “one of the “big three” Open Source CMSs at the end of 2008.”

Evolving from copiers to document management to CMS, Xerox announces the launch of DocuShare Express, a content management solution developed specifically for small to mid-sized businesses.

DocuShare Express includes many of the same features of Xerox’s original DocuShare ECM suite and enables businesses to store, access and share documents and content.