Braintree District Council has announced a partnership with leading UK technology company Jadu to transform its current website and create a new mobile solution.
Jadu specialise in the design and development of rich web experiences that support websites, intranets and extranets and mobile web applications. Their UK clients include more than 50 local Councils, Directgov (Government Digital Service), the universities of Leeds and Northampton and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
16, March 2011, TERMINALFOUR, one of the world’s leading web content management (WCM) companies, today announced that it has delivered a $150,000 web content management solution to New York based Teachers College Columbia University. TERMINALFOUR’s software will become the underlying web technology for the college’s approximately 300 academic, administrative, faculty and research websites.
Founded in 1887, Teachers College Columbia University has more than 5,300 students and is at the forefront of research and practice in both teaching and leadership. As the college’s web presence continued to grow and greater functionality was demanded online, it was decided to overhaul its entire web content management strategy. After an exhaustive review of US products, TERMINALFOUR was selected to provide its WCM solution and services.
TERMINALFOUR is providing Teachers College, Columbia University with its flagship WCM software – TERMINALFOUR Site Manager. It will streamline the entire publishing process for all of the college’s websites and enable the creation of personalised academic catalogues which extends to the management of the entire paper based catalogue publishing process.
All of us already aware that with the advent of Touch SmartPhone, there is a greater demand in the market for utilities and applications developed for the mobile platform. Now these needs can be addressed in two ways:
Native Applications specific to Mobile platforms like iPhone, Android, Windows, Symbian, and Blackberry
Enabling Web Sites / Web Applications to be delivered on Mobile, This is called as Web2Mobile
Native Applications require development of application using software development kits (SDK) specific to platforms like iPhone, Android etc, or even use Mobile Cross-Platform App development platforms like RhoMobile, PhoneGap etc. The challenging aspect here of course is in testing and deploying applications on various versions of the platforms like Android, iOS, Blackberry etc.
A ground-breaking web CMS, proven across multiple sectors and enterprises, has achieved a release that its developers believe will see take-up explode.
The latest version of the Contensis web CMS boasts a range of new features which put it at the cutting edge of the content management market and throws down the gauntlet to its competitors.
Contensis is already the choice of major companies, universities and local authorities and its new 'R6' release makes it the serious contender for any web CMS requirement. Crucially, the new release also signals a fresh clarity in features and pricing for Contensis which is still a rarity in the sector.
At the heart of the new version are improvements and additions which add simplicity to already easy-to-use software, including multimedia controls that make inserting streaming media, galleries and slideshows into pages a quick drag-n-drop experience.
The product has mature support for social networking, which will feel familiar to users of Facebook or LinkedIn, and integrates Google Apps accounts seamlessly, using a single sign-on for both the website and Google accounts.
Ignis opts for new Web Content Management platform to create multiple European sites
Sharepoint 2010 has just been released and everyone is excited about the possibilities and the unique advantage it can lend to their business. Specifically, there has been a lot of talk about Sharepoint’s new web content management capabilities. A lot of folks are wondering if they could possibly use the new Sharepoint release as the technology stack to maintain both their enterprise collaboration needs and their corporate website. In this article, we will review the new Sharepoint 2010 web content management capabilities and how they may fit your organization’s strategic website objectives at this time.
Let’s begin our discussions by reviewing, at a very high level, what specific business problems Sharepoint was meant to solve.
Microsoft designed Sharepoint as a collaboration platform to address specific business needs, such as – Collaboration, Secure Portals, Data Integration, Document Management, Records Management, Search & Discovery…
Further to this, the platform offers robust APIs, which allow extension of the base platform to third party solutions that address specific business needs for corporations in the mid to enterprise markets.
Sharepoint is generally viewed in the market as an ECM (Enterprise Content Management) platform with enriched web editing capabilities. It has inbuilt support for collaboration, back office integration, secure role based access, workflows & business process automation, document indexing, search & discovery capabilities. Most of all it offers some capacity for consistent branding and layouts across the organization.
Acquisition Enables New Proactive Management Capabilities for Web Content Management Systems
Ephox, a leading provider of software for improving web content management (WCM), today announced it has acquired the WebRadar product line from Web Presence Architects, a web strategy consulting firm. With WebRadar, Ephox delivers a web content intelligence system that provides content administrators and project managers with an easy way to proactively monitor and manage their existing WCM solutions. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
“Organizations implement WCM to more easily create, manage and publish web content. However, it has been very difficult to gain insight into the WCM systems themselves. Features such as reporting and batch updating tend to be very limited out of the box,” said Andrew Roberts, CEO of Ephox. “As WCM deployments mature and grow in size, we see the need for more intelligence to be applied to managing the system itself. This is an exciting area and Ephox is excited to be one of the first independent solution providers in this space.”
WebRadar helps web content administrators and project managers identify, fix, and monitor problems with WCM content and processes. For example, WebRadar can determine where the bottlenecks are in a particular process, which pages are expiring within a set timeframe, which content authors are actively using the system, and which pages are assigned to specific team members. The information gained from these types of reports can help content teams be more productive and efficient in managing web content, resulting in a web site that is up-to-date and accurate.
"These habits and rituals, developed over many years now are hard to break. I find it quite staggering for instance that the collective wisdom of a very established global manufacturer is contained in folder after folder after folder of files on shared drives with seemingly very little actual captured knowledge, context or lifecycle management."
-James Hoskins, "#fixwcm – some thoughts from the front line…", 2020 Visions, November 5, 2009
pTools Links Up With Partners and Customers at Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas
October 5, 2009 - pTools today announced that it has further developed its content management software (CMS) as an embedded application for Microsoft SharePoint. Organisations can now use the enhanced web content management (WCM) capability of pTools directly within the SharePoint interface and framework.
The latest release will be launched at Microsoft's worldwide SharePoint conference in Las Vegas this October, where pTools will also link up with partners and customers from the North American market.
Paul Rellis, Managing Director of Microsoft Ireland, commenting on pTools participation at the conference, says: "pTools has very successfully developed their web content management software on the SharePoint platform. Through participating in the SharePoint event the company will gain access and exposure to a vast number of customers and partners interested in connecting, sharing and collaborating on some of Microsoft's fastest growing product lines - including SharePoint Server, SQL Server and Office 2007."
