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FileNet launch ECM 3.0
Enterprise-content-management (ECM) provider FileNet has released its new P8 3.0 platform, which offers XML web service-based access designed to increase platform-independent connectivity and interoperability.
FileNet’s XML web services are designed to provide rich content and business-process-management functionality for ECM applications.
www.filenet.com
Macromedia launches Web Publishing System
Multimedia and software tool provider Macromedia has released a product aimed at building and managing web and intranet sites.
Macromedia says the Web Publishing System (WPS) will allow thousands of content contributors to publish websites for internal and external communications.
Designed to address business users, IT managers and web professionals, the WPS consists of other Macromedia products, such as Studio MX 2004, Contribute 3 and FlashPaper 2.
www.macromedia.com
Upgraded CMS from Hot Banana
Web content-management vendor Hot Banana has enhanced the search engine optimisation performance of its eponymous product by adding a conversion tracking tool, robots.txt, and metatag management.
www.hotbanana.com
Update to webMethods Portal released
Web services-infrastructure vendor webMethods has made available a new version of its portal platform, webMethods Portal 6.1.5.
The product, compliant with Java Specification Request 168 and Web Services for Remote Portlets standards, is a presentation platform for delivering personalised, role-based access to information, applications and business processes.
www.webmethods.com
Scientific Software unveils new ECM wares
Enterprise-content-management (ECM) solution provider Scientific Software has made public two new ECM products, one of which the company says is a one-of-a-kind compliance solution for spreadsheets.
The company says the Remediation Services for Microsoft Excel will help audit and track and control changes to corporate spreadsheet templates. It provides a cell-by-cell audit trail, a cell-locking mechanism, a differencing tool, and the ability to lock out certain Excel functions and menus to prevent tampering.
Scientific Software also released the third version of its Enterprise Content Manager, formerly known as CyberLAB ECMS. Among its features are PDF metadata extraction, management of readable and raw data, and integrated business-process management.
www.scisw.com
Octigon boasts new version of CMS
Software-developer Octigon is preparing to launch the latest version of its core product, Octane8, in early October 2004.
Octigon sources say version 5.0 of the content-management package has been completely redesigned, boasting new .NET architecture while focusing on faster performance.
www.octigon.com
EMC releases storage-aware content-management platform
Information storage and management provider EMC has unveiled a product they say is the missing link between content and storage management.
The technology, called EMC Documentum Content Storage Services, allows organisations to define and execute storage policies that automate the placement and movement of content across varied, multi-level storage infrastructure.
“What we’re doing now is tying together the gap between content and storage management,” said Neville Letzerich, director of product marketing for EMC Software. “It gives a new capability to define and automate storage policies for unstructured content.”
Letzerich said the new offering differs from hierarchical storage-management solutions that store information based on standard or disk-level information by providing allocation and migration of information based on all the rich metadata and content services provided by the company’s Enterprise Content Management Platform.
Information can be allocated to and migrated across storage devices based on business policies that utilise standard and user-defined attributes, including content type, access control level, lifecycle state, sharing permissions, industry regulations or archiving requirements, as well as date last accessed, size, related transactions or related documents.
Together, storage administrators and business users work to define policies that specify the initial storage device/tier and rules for migrating information across storage tiers. Policies can be executed automatically as a result of a system event (such as the completion of a workflow activity), ad hoc and in batch to provide the greatest level of flexibility for an organisation to optimise utilisation. The product also features migration logs and audit-trail capabilities so that content movement among storage tiers can be monitored and internal accounting charge-backs easily reported.
Letzerich also noted that many organisations continue to struggle with manual processes for content archiving, which can result in exposure to risk, accidental content deletion and non compliance.
“A lot of times things are getting put on non-compliant devices or put on a compliant device too early,” he said. “This allows us to get around that potentially expensive problem.”
