Stories about: Eprise

In 2007,we designated more than 90 start-ups as worth watching. After a second look, we picked these 10 as offering what matters most in the enterprise -- agility, seamless integration and pervasive connectivity.

When last surveying open source Web CMSes (content management systems) I provided some common-sense advice. For example, it's important to look for not just functionality but also frequent updates, a healthy user community, and the availability of professional support. Some points are still true today, but new offerings may get you rethinking the role of these products in your enterprise.

Enterprise CMSes (content management systems) do a fine job helping business users update Web page text and rollback changes when necessary. But that's just one facet of maintaining an engaging site. Unfortunately, few tools currently exist for overseeing changes to intricate applications such as shopping carts and Web-enabled self-help. True, most IT shops employ systems management tools such as Microsoft Application Center to deploy custom programming of this nature. These products, however, usually work with particular file types and often lack controls mandated by Sarbanes-Oxley and other legislation.

Eprise has been around the CM (content management) space for some time, and the 2004 version puts this Web content management application on solid footing.

Does your organisation often turn to portals in an attempt to manage the sprawl of Web-based applications? If so, you may be all too aware that these projects can fail to deliver their anticipated ROI. That’s because IT managers overlook the need to extend core functions — content management, search, and security — to the applications that appear within a portal. As a result, companies often settle for a portal that provides a decent user experience for a few locally hosted functions. However, the portal doesn’t provide an overarching administration framework, nor does it help you lower development and maintenance expenses.

IBM Corp. is turning up the heat on its CM (content management) strategy, preparing a scaled-down version of its Content Manager product aimed at midsize companies.

As the CTO of divine, Robert "Buck" Flannigan is out to change the way people think about CM (content management) and the way that applications interact with one another across organizational boundaries. In recent months, divine has merged with or acquired the assets of 19 different companies, including Open Market Inc., Delano Technology Corp., Eprise Corp., eshare communications, Intira, SageMaker Inc. and Viant Corp., as part of a plan to become a service provider for extended enterprise applications. In an interview with InfoWorld Editor in Chief Michael Vizard, Flannigan talks about how software-as-a-service application models based on Web services will enable of a new class of enterprise applications for business.

Seizing a ripe opportunity to layer its CM (content management) strengths into applications, Vignette Corp. this week plans to roll out a packaged application aimed at bringing value to portals and business applications.

Haht Commerce this week will debut the latest version of its business-to-business application for selling on the Web, adding service-management features such as returns authorizations and order tracking.

As the music industry continues its legal battles against companies such as Napster to prevent the unauthorized distribution of MP3 music files over the Internet, many Internet industry observers are arguing that it is trying to apply outdated business rules to a medium it does not understand.

Novell's new e-business Net Services Software is not only designed to run on its own Netware operating system (OS), but also its competitor's -- including the soon-to-be-released Windows 2000.