IBM bolsters ECM

IBM has included enhancements to the IBM Content Management 8.4 family of software, reports CNN Money.

The company says the new enterprise content management (ECM) offerings provide improved performance, scalability and usability to help customers make better decisions.

"We are continually looking for ways to help our customers derive new value from their content, while protecting their existing investments," said Ken Bisconti, VP of IBM ECM products and strategy.

The Enterprise Content Management Association announced the release of its new Market IQ study, "Content Security: At the Fulcrum of Innovation and Risk", reports Earth Times.

The study of 600 end-users found a majority of organisations have either begun or are in the throes of establishing a content security strategy, but that vision suffers from lack of awareness and outdated perspectives.

"The securing of online content is clearly on the minds of virtually every organisation," states AIIM VP Carl Frappaolo. "About 65% of the 600 companies surveyed were involved to one degree or another with a content management strategy deployment."

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking information about capabilities for Web content management systems that the agency could add to its enterprise architecture as a standard technology, reports FCW.

NIH will consider technologies that can integrate with a variety of diverse existing systems to facilitate online content management.

Officials want to know how potential technologies would operate with the agency`s existing standards and systems, and how widely they would apply across NIH. At the same time, agency officials recognise that no one technology would be appropriate for all of NIH at this time.