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With the goal of connecting the estimated 1 million Australians living abroad, the nonprofit organization, Advance, is using Tendenci content management system as a key component of its community engagement toolkit. Tendenci CMS, recently released as an open source product, is designed...
The great mid-May Facebook IPO has reportedly been delayed maybe until mid-June waiting on Mark Zuckerberg to wrap up whatever else is distracting him right now besides his billion-dollar Instagram acquisition or the $550 million patent deal with Microsoft, which also mean the company ...
Millions or even billions have been spent caring for tens of thousands of pregnant men in the U.K. For UK’s chronically underfunded National Health System, a few hundred million or a few billion is a very big deal. Especially given how easily this problem could have been prevented wi...
Houston Museum District Association has launched its new website, http://houstonmuseumdistrict.org, powered by Tendenci (www.tendenci.com) content management system (CMS). With Tendenci CMS, which was designed specifically for non-profits organizations (NPOs) and associations, Houston ...
In the last article in this series we covered WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, and b2evolution, five leading Content Management Systems. In this article we talk about the next five: Xoops, Seotoaster, e107, Concrete5, and Typo3. 6. Xoops Xoops (eXtensible Object Orientated Portal Sy...
A content management system (CMS) is a system facilitating efficient production of desired output by using managed content. The content may be text, images, graphics, documents, sound, video or other that can be managed in an electronic format. It is a software application used in uplo...
Content Management Systems (CMS) have become one of the most powerful Internet-related products. What once was a gadget for web developers and technology geeks is now a must-have tool for multiple business units. Because of the pace at which the world of Internet technology changes, an...
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Some questions can never be answered; they can only be debated but we never get the solution to it. The same is the case for CMSs; people for years have been trying to find out which one is best for them and which is good to manage a website. Open source CMSs have had great success and...
Magnolia published a case study detailing how the open source content management brought centralized management to 294 web sites at Texas State University (TSU), winning over faculty and staff, and drastically reducing administrative overhead.
IDC analysts predict that by 2020 there will be 15 quintillion files in existence. That kind of volume has brought us to a point where we are using a term like “exabyte” (and quintillion!) to describe how much data exists. How much of that data will your organization own and how will y...
Assessment of our Corporate Sustainability is often driven by a need to comply in order to achieve the tick in a box for tender activity but is this how it should be perceived? Surely implemented in the right spirit and with across the board buy-in, this buzz word strategy is a strong...
Box.net, the cloud-based content management company that’s seen $29.5 million in VC funding since it was started in a dorm room in 2005 by a couple of soon-to-be college dropouts – well, $14.5 million if you don’t count Mark Cuban’s angel capital – has gotten another $38 million in equ...
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is a formalized means of organizing and storing an organization's documents, and other content, that relate to the organization's processes. The term encompasses strategies, methods, and tools used throughout the lifecycle of the content. Traditional...
Forty-percent of project managers cited poor communication as the leading cause if IT project failures. If everyone involved in your IT project doesn't know what they're working on, when it's due, how to get itdone and who the audience is, how can you possibly expect your project to su...
IBM has bought Datacap Inc, a document capture software vendor it’s partnered with for years. Terms were not disclosed. Companies use Datacap’s widgetry to extract unstructured data from stuff like invoices, claim forms and tax returns, reducing paper costs, eliminating manual errors a...
Swiss-based web content management (WCM) house Day Software Holding AG got bought Wednesday by Adobe for roughly $240 million (255 million Swiss francs). Adobe is now going to tender for its outstanding stock offering $131.53 a share cash (139 Swiss francs), a 59% premium compared to...
On Wednesday, Adobe announced it was going to buy Day Software, another WCM manufacturer based in Basel, Switzerland, who uses the same technology foundation as Magnolia. As an initiator of the JCR standard and main contributor to Jackrabbit (the JCR reference implementation), Day is c...
Mr. and Mrs. President Bashar al-Assad: At the tender age of 17 months my severely ill daughter Sofia, an American citizen, was abducted by her mother on Monday, July 26, in Istanbul, Turkey, and taken to Syria. I was informed yesterday by Sofia's mother that she will not be comi...
The BBC says that the stolen Green Dam snooping software that China tried last year to foist on all PC makers that wanted to sell boxes in the country is going down for the count. The Beeb quoted state-controlled reports that said the company let its Beijing team go for lack of gover...
Why should you reach out to that partner organization that has mastered email marketing and that Red Bull chugging, green-colored spiky haired young fella for your social media? They "get it" and you need them on your side. Knowing the weakness and blind spots in your marketing organiz...
Allscripts and Eclipsys have announced a definitive agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $1.3 billion. The combination of Allscripts and Eclipsys will create a clear leader in healthcare information technology, with the most comprehensive solution offe...
Microsoft has signed a Joomla! Contributor Agreement (JCA), and there’s some of its code in the Joomla! 1.6 trunk. That’s Joomla! as in GPL project and, according to Microsoft, the second-biggest PHP application in the world. It’s a MySQL-based open source content management system...
Microsoft is outsourcing management of its internal IT services worldwide to Infosys under a three-year contract based on so-called “outcome pricing.” The Indian company expects to use what it learns to support shared customers. The deal includes Microsoft’s help desk, desk-side servic...
Salesforce.com and VMware are gonna be shacking up together. CEOs Marc Benioff and Paul Maritz are scheduled to make a joint product announcement on “the future of cloud computing” on April 27 in a webcast at the suggestively named vmforce.com, a combination of two of their identifie...
Sat lonely in my office, I remembered about a website that did everything that ‘Dan the Mexican’ could do and more, a site that pushed our message out to a bespoke and targeted audience, a site that supplied me with just as valuable information as ‘Dan the Mexican’ would give me during...
Apple is beginning to know how Xerox PARC felt. Like Apple did to PARC, Google has lifted from Apple again this time on behalf of Google Apps and set up a Google Apps Marketplace where third parties can sell business programs that integrate with Google Apps to the two million compa...
The coming years will be both exciting and challenging as we collectively migrate to integrated enterprise cloud computing. Speaking of enterprises, I owe all of you an article on preparing your enterprise for the cloud. I continue to work on it, but it's not quite ready yet. This...
Pew Internet has published the results of an important survey on how we’re getting our news today. I haven’t read the whole thing but one little point leaps out already: Among those who get news online, 75% get news forwarded through email or posts on social networking sites...
Webtrends, an enterprise customer intelligence company, today announced new Facebook measurement capabilities within Webtrends Analytics, which provides marketers the most comprehensive tracking and measurement for the activities that happen inside Facebook. Facebook's popularity is w...
Intellimon has just released a new software program, XCommentPro, which provides easy-to-use tools for commenting, rating and visitor interaction on websites. Designed for maximum control and functionality, XCommentPro is compatible with Dreamweaver, FrontPage, ExpressionWeb, XSitePro...
IBM on Thursday announced it is working with the British Library on a project that will preserve and analyse terabytes of information on the Web before it is lost forever. The new analytics software project, called IBM BigSheets, helps extract, annotate and visually analyse vast amoun...
Coming at the end of a year of record growth, DS Data Systems is proud to announce a new release of its increasingly popular KonaKart eCommerce software.
Alfresco Software on Wednesday announced the availability of Alfresco Content Services for Lotus social collaboration products, an integration between the Alfresco open source enterprise content management (ECM) system and IBM Lotus Quickr, Lotus Notes, Lotus Connections and WebSphere ...
This is the time of year when people make their predictions for the next year. Building on some recent surveys and polls including: What's your take on Windows 7? Is IBM XIV still relevant? EMC and Cisco Acadia VCE, what does it mean?
Attunity Ltd. announced today that it has partnered with Open Text Corporation, an enterprise software company and a leader in enterprise content management, who will market advanced data connectivity solutions, including legacy decommissioning, data lifecycle management and real-time ...
Alfresco Software open source enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, and RightScale, cloud computing management, announced the availability of a joint solution that speeds deployment time and automates scaling of Alfresco software in the cloud. Utilizing RightScale's software-a...
Amazon and Google announced on Wednesday partnership between Amazon’s self-service advertising program, and Blogger, the award-winning blog platform from Google. This new collaboration enables Bloggers to monetize their content by adding relevant Amazon products to their blog posts wit...
Run Drupal, WordPress, SugarCRM, or other PHP-based apps on Windows today with the free Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Microsoft WebsiteSpark is a specially designed program for PHP Web developers and designers to help you explore running on Windows. This program enables you to get ...
Attenda Limited announced that Ofwat has signed a new three year hosting contract for its new website application to be fully managed by Attenda. Ofwat is the economic regulator of the water and sewerage sectors in England and Wales. They make sure that the water companies provide hou...