Open Text pledges ECM

Independent enterprise content management (ECM) company Open Text has said its new product roadmap (shortly to be announced in full) involves putting its content management expertise atop Microsoft and Oracle infrastructure.

"Microsoft and Oracle are rightly asserting themselves in the ECM space and we'll deliver underlying ECM services, document management to work across the whole enterprise," Kirk Roberts, Open Text president told CRN.com.

At the company's annual conference this week in Phoenix, it will announce Open Text Livelink ECM 10, which will add new integrated content and Web services allowing its partners to develop solutions that leverage Microsoft or Oracle technology, adds the article.

STA Travel, one of the world's larger travel retailers, has chosen Zeus Technology's ZXTM solution to help accelerate delivery of Web site content to its worldwide network of offices and local Web sites.

This is according to e-consultancy, which notes: "Following a number of years of sustained growth, STA Travel recently decided to centralise its many local Web presences, implementing a single content management system."

ZXTM provided the solution, deployed on a Utility Computing platform based on Egenera BladeFrame systems. ZXTM's load balancing and caching capabilities brought the content closer to the end user in the Pacific region.

Content management provider Day Software, along with its premier customer McDonald's, has won the Shared Insights 2006 Portal Excellence Award.

The winners were announced recently at Shared Insights' Portals, Collaboration and Content Conference in Boston, writes Yahoo Finance.

"With over 31 000 restaurants in more than 118 countries serving over 50 million people each day, McDonald's is one of the most recognised brands on the planet. The company deployed Day Software's Communique, the first native JSR 170-compliant ECM solution available, for its worldwide intra/extranet," explains the article.

"In today's real-time environment, it is mission-critical that McDonald's carry information and messages to our suppliers, franchisees, business partners and employers as quickly as possible," says Michael Moppert, chairman and CEO of Day Software.