Understanding Architectures
Developers and system administrators convert software into real applications. Learn about the various technical dimensions to developing successful content management and search systems.
Article: DAM-Trends
Innovations in Digital Asset Management, Circa 2008
The Digital Asset Management (DAM) marketplace doesn't receive a lot of attention, but DPCI's Joseph Bachana argues that some very interesting developments are transpiring. The problem is, no single vendor has a lock on how to combine all these innovations into a comprehensive offering...
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Article: WCM Trends 2008
Web CMS trends for 2008
The Web CMS industry is changing, but not always in ways you would expect, and along with innovation comes new challenges for customers. CMS Watch analyst Kas Thomas lays out seven key trends as we head into 2008, from Ajax (sort of) to Web Services (not) to coupled architectures (definitely) and more...
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Article: Wikis in the enterprise
What makes an enterprise wiki?
If you look at wikis in an enterprise context, you may confront some important
questions. What's the difference between a wiki and a CMS? Are wiki tools
enterprise-ready? Can they pass muster before your CIO? Consultant Mark Choate
takes a stab at some answers...
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Article: The Great Divide
Databases Are So 20th Century
Dave Kellogg, CEO of MarkLogic, takes a look at the historic divide between
data and content technologies and rejects the notion that content is a special
case of data. The design of truly content-centric applications, Dave argues,
will require new kinds "contentbases"...
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Article: DAM vs. DM
Intro to Digital Asset Management: Just what is a DAM?
Why not just use your document management system to manage your rich media? Well, as asset management consultant Magan Arthur explains, rich media comes with its own tools, file types, and business uses...
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Article: Java Repository Spec
JSR-170: What's in it for me?
The thought of reading a Java specification makes normal people sleepy. But if you follow content management at all, you'll want to take a closer look at an emerging Java specification for content repositories, "JSR-170." From the CIO to the web editor, there's something in JSR-170 for nearly everyone, argues CMS consultant Janus Boye and spec lead David Nuescheler...
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Article: Case Against Portals
Portal Software: Passing Fad or Real Value?
Janus Boye returns to CMS Watch to look at the benefits and drawbacks to enterprise portal packages. If you look closely at your requirements, Boye argues, you may find portal software more a hindrance than a help...
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Article: Microsoft Integration
Integrating MS CMS and Commerce Server
In his second article on Microsoft CMS integration, Bill Schneider shows how pre-packaged connectors for MS Commerce Server can be suitable for novice developers with simple requirements who want to add personalization to websites. More seasoned developers should consider turning instead to underlying .NET tools for more advanced integration...
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Article: Web Services and CMS
Web Services and Content Management
Travis Wissink returns to CMS Watch to explain how a more services-oriented approach to content management can improve returns on your CMS and other IT investments, while helping you avoid vendor lock-in...
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Article: Microsoft Integration
Integrating Content Management Server with SharePoint Portal
Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 lacks functionality in some useful areas when deploying a web application. Bill Schneider returns to CMS Watch to detail how to integrate the product with MS SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to obtain key search, asset-management, and portal-integration services...
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Article: Deployment
Pay Attention to Content Deployment
CMS solutions enable businesspeople to easily contribute content to websites. RedDot's Darren Guarnaccia argues, however, that physically deploying content to a production environment presents several challenges that require serious technical consideration...
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Article: XSLT 2.0
A Transforming Experience for Content Management?
One of the traditional knocks against XML-based CMS products is the relative immaturity of XSL as a programming language. Well, Steve Heckler of Accelebrate returns to CMS Watch to show how the forthcoming XSLT 2.0 spec may change the way we all think about processing XML documents...
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Article: Content Conversion
When Word-XML Conversions Get Nasty
Converting legacy Microsoft Word documents to XML is the holy grail of most document and content management system implementations. You can find help from an increasing array of automated conversion tools, but as Michael Gross of Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. points out, that's only half the battle. It's the particular ways people use Word that can make CMS conversions so challenging. Check out 5 of Mike's nastier examples...
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Article: The GRUPA Gremlin
Is There a Gremlin in Your Website?
What's eating away at your website performance and scalability? Tony Byrne argues that you could be relying unnecessarily on dynamic content delivery. Reconsider what "dynamic" really means, and get rid of those gremlins by pre-assembling content in your CMS, Tony counsels...
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Article: Cocoon
XML Web Publishing
John Callahan surveys the Apache "Cocoon" framework and suggests that some very nice Web creatures could take wing...
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Article: CMS and IDEs
Microsoft CMS 2002 and VisualStudio.NET
MS CMS 2002 might look like the previous version on the outside, but the new version is all .NET on the inside. For developers seeking to smooth the attendant learning curve, Bill Schneider of Ness Technologies suggests looking into the rather novel, tight integration between CMS 2002 and Microsoft's standard IDE: VisualStudio.NET...
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Article: CMS + Search
Harmonizing Search & CMS
Which comes first, the Search Engine or the CMS? Neither, says Carl Sutter -- you need both to work together...
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Article: AXIS
AXIS: Java Web Services
Sure, Web Services is a really cool concept. But are there applications for content management? And can SOAP be done in a relatively simple fashion? John Callahan takes a look at the AXIS toolkit from the Apache Project and answers "yes" and "yes"...
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Article: Zope CMF
Zope Content Management Framework (Part 2 of 2)
Zope CMF could use a bit more QA and better docs, says Adam Fields in this second of a two-part review. But Zope also sports a powerful, object-oriented model, and if you stare at the code long enough, somehow it all makes sense...
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Article: Betty Harvey
What SGML Can Teach Us About XML & the Web
SGML vet Betty Harvey advises XML-based publishers: don't suffer the same mistakes we experienced...
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