Internet Evolution: "The IBM Data Governance Council sent out a press release this week predicting that within the next four years, data will become an asset that is reported on the balance sheet of corporations, and that data governance will become a statutory requirement.

This trend could bring a new emphasis on data quality and potentially increase corporate use of social networking as a means of improving that quality."

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John Newton, Alfresco, posted a well written article on the business changes Web 2.0 will continue to the enterprise.  I especially not liked what he had to say about the strength of social publishing tools for knowledge sharing within a company, but also Web 2.0's strength to blend required knowledge available both inside and outside the organization.

These web sites will set further expectations on the internal systems you use and a requirement to integrate internal information with these external sources of information. Web 2.0 has an answer for this as well with an integration technique known as "mash up", the ability mix information from multiple sources using the web browser itself as the point of integration. These external sources of information also provide something that our internal information systems could never provide, a critical mass of opinion utilizing the Wisdom of the Crowds. We will ultimately need to combine external opinion with our internal opinion to get more accurate predictive decision making with our own unique insights inside the enterprise.

When I read what John has written, I can't help but think of our previous discussions on the strength of weak ties.  Companies that are willing to seek out knowledge internally and externally of their control boundaries are likely to have a greater business advantage over those companies that prevent their workers from taking the discussion beyond the office walls.  What a boring life that would be to only be able to talk to colleagues that wear only the same company logo you are wearing?  Companies need to accept the changes that are about to take place as their youngest workers will likely want and need to collaborate with more than just their fellow employees.  The world via social publishing offers their workers more than what most single companies can provide alone.

Alexandria, VA - June 30, 2008- Bitrix, Inc. is happy to announce the newest release of the world class CMS Bitrix Site Manager 7.0. Bitrix Site Manager is a Web Content Management System (CMS) that provides cost-effective solutions that meet the full promise of Web 2.0 Content Management Systems. CMS Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 is a multilingual platform that is simple for content owners to use and enables developers to build advanced Web sites that are stable and secure.

"Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 unleashes the full promise of CMS for a world-wide audience," said Sergey Rizhikov, CEO of Bitrix, Inc. "We are especially excited by the UTF-8 support. It is a great new feature allowing multilingual Internet projects. Our partners who work in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese among others will do well by offering this functionality in their local markets.

Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 also unleashes the full promise of Web 2.0 Content Management Systems for worldwide audiences by empowering content owners to access well-designed site wizards and templates, add content on the fly, upload graphic images, build blogs, and collaborate. The ability to add new content is critical to boost search engine rankings and build conversations with web audiences.

Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 offers a host of new capabilities.

Internet Evolution: "And in that vein, SharePoint may become the victim of its own success: There are no clearly defined standards and best practices for designing and deploying SharePoint in a cohesive manner. This is not to say that expertise does not exist and that people don’t have opinions and valid experiences. But let’s get real -- the product was only shipped in November 2006, and organizations can get rather desperate as they search for balanced and practiced governance standards."

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InfoWorld: "Incorporating Web 2.0 social networking concepts into enterprises offers great benefits but also challenges, implementers of these technologies, including Best Buy, Serena Software, and Oracle, said Tuesday evening during an industry event in Silicon Valley."

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Kathleen Reidy: "I attended a star-studded open source panel this morning, with Bob Bickel of Ringside Networks, Jeff Whatcott of Acquia and John Newton of Alfresco. The panel and audience members discussed adoption of open source specifically for social applications.

There was a bit of discussion on market readiness for open source in this sector."

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Alfresco Press Release: LONDON—May 13, 2008— Alfresco Software announced the release of Alfresco Enterprise 2.2, which in particular is designed to power Web 2.0 properties and online communities. New feature enhancements support the creation, deployment and update of scalable Web 2.0 sites that can be developed using any web application language. These enhancements are a result of the company’s work with the most advanced interactive sites in the entertainment, online gaming, sports, telecommunications and publishing industries. With this new release, companies can easily move beyond the traditional marketing oriented Web site to provide users with a rich and interactive site that fosters community and customer relationships around a product or service.

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I suspect there are many people in our industry that use these terms within their daily professional lives but aren't clear on their meaning. One indication is the notes found at the top of each page within wikipedia on this topic. Almost every page has a quality standards warning saying the article makes vague or superficial statements and focuses excessively on Web CMS.

So what does it take to be a CMS or an ECM?

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eWeek: A Forrester report says social networking, RSS and mashups will be among the fastest-growing technologies by 2013.

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Reg Developer: "It's emerged Sun may release extra data back-up features in the Enterprise Edition of the next version of MySQL, due in Q4, to paying enterprise subscribers only."

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