Content management isn’t simply about standardization and organization though, it also involves controlling access to data. Maintaining controlled access to data means less individuals having the ability to make changes and makes it extraordinarily difficult to trace them back to their origin. By limiting access to data, any errors or changes can more easily be traced. This is a cost effective strategy as well, saving expenses in the form of time.
Businessmen have turned to the Internet for expansion due to the rising number of online consumers. This is why web development has become one of the most profitable business ventures today. If you are planning on making it to the web development business, you need a good marketing strategy to get customers to hire you. Large companies usually hire large numbers of developers, but this does not mean that if you are a lone web developer, you won’t make it. Here are some ways to successfully market your web development business and be competitive…
Scott Guthrie, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s .NET Developer Platform, announced that Microsoft is taking a more active role participating in the open-source, community-driven development of the jQuery JavaScript Library – during his keynote at MIX10 reported Peter Galli ; the Open Source Community Manager for Microsoft’s Platform Strategy Group. Microsoft will now work in concert with the jQuery JavaScript Library team to accelerate the creation of new features that make creating rich-web applications on any platform faster and easier. Microsoft is already shipping jQuery with Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET MVC 2 products. Microsoft contributions to jQuery will be available under jQuery MIT or GPL2 license.
Interspire have just announced the availabilty of their Knowledge Manager solution version 5.0 , previously known as ActiveKB ( reviewed here ). Mitchell Harper, Interspire Product Manager, wrote in product announcement : This new version marks a significant step in our product strategy, turning the product from a simple web-based, self-service FAQ system into a fully-featured, enterprise-grade knowledge management tool which can be used to reduce customer support, share company-wide knowledge and reduce staff training costs. New features in version 5.0 include: Microsoft SQL Server & LDAP support – Easily integrate Interspire Knowledge Manager with your existing Windows-based Active Directory network and databases. Complete workflow support – Setup content publishing rules and processes which allow knowledge workers and their managers to efficiently publish and approve knowledge items. Integrated news posting and syndication – Post news items, information and upcoming event details directly to the front page of your knowledge base.
XRMS is a web-based application for managing business entities such as employees, customers, contacts, activities with those contacts, etc. XRMS could be classified under CRM, SFA or BI, and basically if your company needs to manage relationships with your customers and business partners, XRMS should be able to fulfill your needs. You can use XRMS to integrate and manage your sales, service, and marketing data in a single information store. XRMS has the enterprise capabilities to become a single system of record for storing activities, files, and other interaction data with your customers, employees, partners, and prospects. And, it is easily extensible to support your own processes and procedures for interacting with and supporting your customers.
Oracle and Forrester Research are organizing a webcast titled “CRM & The Power of Choice” on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 (8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT). You can hear from Mike Betzer, Vice President Product Management Oracle, and Liz Herbert, Senior Analyst Forrester Research, in addition to live Oracle customers.Some vendors preach the software model du jour as the only surefire path to CRM success before understanding your business requirements. In many cases organizations have different needs within their enterprise and choosing only one CRM application, without the flexibility to adjust to organizational differences, diminishes the success of both the organization and the customers they serve
eZ Systems announced today the availability of eZ Publish Extension for Oracleas Open Source and it displayed its strong commitment to Open Source community. The software was previously available under a proprietary license and was sold from $899 to $2999. It is now freely available ! It is noticeable that latest version 1.4 of eZPublish extension for oracle database include support for eZPublish 3.8 in addition to clustering. Documentation available here .
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 1, 2007 – Hyperion (Nasdaq Global Select: HYSL), a leading global provider of performance management software solutions today announced that it has agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corporation through a cash tender offer for $52.00 per share, or approximately $3.3 billion. “Requirements for Performance Management and Business Intelligence solutions are increasingly converging,” said Hyperion Chief Executive Officer Godfrey Sullivan. “Given the critical need for managers across the enterprise to align operational decisions with strategy, now is the right time for Hyperion to combine with a strategic partner like Oracle to deliver the first, integrated end-to-end Enterprise Performance Management System.”