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When is Web Content Management Right- for an Intranet?
- When it comes to software for maintaining your intranet, you can choose between a Web content manager and portal software. The right choice depends on exactly what type of intranet you want to build and what type of information you want available to your users.
Ektron Simplifies XML in CMS300
- With version 4.0 of its CMS300 Web content manager, Ektron not only maintains its focus on XML, but makes XML authoring transparent for end-users.
The Spy Who Flubbed Me:- Intranet Security Begins with Education
- How do you prevent your organization's intellectual property from accidentally falling into the wrong hands after spending all those hours building a security infrastructure? It all begins with education.
Content Management and Collaboration- Converge on E-Learning
- Whether it's in a strict e-learning environment or an informal information session, content management and collaboration technologies have all in a sense become solutions to facilitate learning.
XML Basics and Benefits
- P.G. Daly begins a series on XML, which allows developers to define tags and the structural relationships between them, with a look at the overriding benefits.
Who Gains from Offshore Outsourcing?
- About a year ago, a group of a dozen IT workers in Connecticut that met for lunch every six weeks or so noticed a disturbing trend: only two of the 12 were actually working in IT.
Inside Spyware: A Guide to Finding,- Removing and Preventing Online Pests
- Online pests can range from the annoying to the downright dangerous. This Intranet Journal guide takes a step-by-step approach to diagnosing, removing and preventing spyware infestations.
LiquidOffice Takes Forms to the Process
- When Cardiff introduced its LiquidOffice software more than two years ago, just about anything that automated the use of forms and put them online was a tremendous help to companies trying to decrease their dependency on paper. Since then LiquidOffice has become a total e-form solution.
Fireworks and Flash Tips- Straight from the Developers
- Last month, we brought you useful tips for Dreamweaver MX 2004 that were contributed by Dreamweaver's actual developers, and we're glad to say the response was positive. This month we continue with more insider tips, this time on Fireworks MX 2004 and Flash MX 2004.
Video May Be Finding a Home on the Network
- Video has been left locked out of most corporate networks in favor of e-mail when it comes to communicating to a large number of employees. But as desktop PCs, networks and rich media creation software evolve, video is becoming a viable option.
Corporations Putting Content in Context
- What do a slice of bread and a single-spaced memo have in common? A supply chain. Regardless of the product or service a company sells, many businesses are realizing they have one product in common: content.
Intranet Standardization:- All For One, and One For All
- Your corporate intranet should act as a portal that enables users to access the various internal sub-sites. And as a portal, there needs to be an overall sense of unity.
MindManager Lays New Foundation with X5 Pro
- Good news is afoot for people who need a visual tool for brainstorming, planning, and research. Mindjet took MindManager, its already very useful visual thinking tool, and gave it a complete overhaul, including an XML foundation, for its new version.
Access Control 101
- Controlling how network resources are accessed is paramount to protecting private and confidential information from unauthorized users. The types of access control mechanisms available for information technology initiatives today continues to increase at a breakneck pace.
It's Getting Crowded in Collaboration
- Collaboration technologies are all the rage right now. But now that Microsoft has released its newest version of Office loaded with collaborative features, are content management vendors going to wish they never got involved?
Enterprise Applications Hitting a Road Near You
- The availability of easy, relatively inexpensive wireless access through Wi-Fi technology, and the proliferation of wireless-ready laptops, have set the stage for wireless applications to move beyond vertical markets and into mainstream use.
Dreamweaver Tips from the Developers- Who Dreamt Them Up
- Last month we highlighted the new Dreamweaver features that will tempt you to upgrade. This month we interviewed the actual Macromedia developers who created Dreamweaver and asked them for their favorite hidden tips. If you regularly use Dreamweaver, you're bound to find a time-saver or two.
Is It Time to Get Thin?
- It's not the way thin-client computing is used that's going to make it one of the fastest growing technologies of the next few years. Instead, it will be the cost savings and other benefits it can offer. And those savings and benefits are greater than you might think.
Reach the Top of the Charts with OrgPublisher
- Organizational charts are a pretty basic ingredient for a successful intranet. TimeVisison's new OrgPublisher 5.0 allows you to import and extend employee data whether it's stored in comma-delineated files or an XML database.
ECM Puzzle Starts Fitting Together
- No sooner did executives figure out what enterprise content management (ECM) was and how it could help their companies, when a wave of consolidation began breaking over the sector. What's going on here?
Microsoft Adds Collaboration- to the Office Suite Mix
- The newest version of Microsoft's Office suite goes beyond Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. It also includes document management and collaboration capabilities, but it does so at a price.
Taking the 'Project' Out of Project Management
- Sensing that much of the project collaboration done in business is not done at the enterprise level, Enact has simplified its enterprise software to appeal to groups of five to 25 people and bundled the database and servers to boot.
The Golden Years of Intranet Life:- Retrofit or Rebuild?
- What do an intranet and Montreal's Olympic Stadium have in common? Both were conceived, developed, and implemented for a period of time. But the key is what happens when they seem to outlive their usefulness.
Endeca's Guided Navigation Turns 4.0
- Endeca, a recognized leader in catalog searching among e-commerce companies, has been in the enterprise search business for about a year now. With ProFind 4.0, it enhances its enterprise-class features such as security, language support, and content sources.
Getting Your Intranet Team in Motion
- Is your intranet team running on all cylinders? Does the makeup of your team strike the right balance of talent and styles to optimize results while avoiding burnout? If it isn't, it might have something to do with the laws of physics.
Conversation Elevation: IM, Web Conferencing,- Multimedia
- We look at new tools from eDial and Yahoo! that enable enterprises to move from text-based instant messaging into richer forms of presence-based communications.
A Secure Twist for the E-Meeting Market
- As more tools for collaboration enter the workplace, the security risks they present to the enterprise increase. Viack's VIA3 e-meeting application not only incorporates several collaboration technologies, it wraps them in a secure package using SSL and AES.
Xoops: An Object-Oriented Approach to the CMS
- We conclude our series on open-source content management systems with a look at Xoops, a truly out-of-the-box intranet solution, and an overview of the four systems we covered and the strengths and weaknesses of each.
So You Want to Switch to Linux?
- If there's ever a time to explore taking the Linux plunge, that time is now. Or is it? Depending on who you listen to, Linux in the enterprise is either an IT savior or something best left for tasks that are not among the most mission-critical.
Stellent Puts Its Content Management- Under One Roof
- Stellent has offered all the tools enterprises need for content management and collaboration for some time now. But now in version 7.0 everything is on one server, and a new pricing structure indicates it's enterprises the company is going after.
Dreamweaver's New Features:- A Dream Come True
- The release of Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX 2004 is so cutting edge that it's apparently three months ahead of the calendar. With cascading style sheets central to this latest version and improved integration with Microsoft Word and Excel, it will not disappoint.
Building the Perfect Beast
- If your intranet still consists of the news headlines and local weather along with a phone directory, you're falling behind the times. According to the Nielsen Norman Group's Ten Best Intranets of the Year, applications and information that make your intranet an essential part of the business process and workflow are the way to go.
Collaboration Software Gets 'Portalized'
- Collaboration software never attained critical mass on its own. But that's changing as it is increasingly being built into enterprise portals.
Intranet Content Organization
- There's a direct relationship between content organization and the ease with which intranet owners and users are able to navigate, locate, and manage vast stores of information.
Tool Tips Made Easy
- Overlib is a JavaScript library created to enhance Web sites with small pop-up information boxes called tool tips. It's easy to use and cost-effective and offers a customizable solution where a quick pop-up might be convenient.
Pestware 101
- While Pestware doesn't typically destroy components of your system the way viruses do, it does use up valuable system resources and it can report on your Web surfing habits, and other personal behavior unbeknownst to you.
Instant TeamMessenger Marries- Outlook and Lotus IM
- Instant TeamMessenger brings Outlook and Lotus IM together, so you can see who's online when you're in Outlook and can start real-time conversations off of e-mail messages and calendar entries.
Documentum Takes Aim- at Publishers, Content Creators
- With its new Enterprise Publishing Solution, Documentum reaches out to those using creative tools like Quark XPress and includes them in the enterprise content management loop.
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