IT giants collaborate

EMC, IBM and Microsoft have jointly developed specification that uses Web Services and Web 2.0 interfaces to enable applications to interoperate with multiple Enterprise Content Management (ECM) repositories by different vendors, states Money Control.

The companies intend to submit the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification to the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) for advancement through its standards development process.

CMIS aims to reduce the IT burden around multivendor, multirepository content management environments.

Alterian, international integrated marketing platform provider, reveals that The Fuqua School of Business of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, has selected Alterian's Content Management solution to run and manage the school's Internet, Intranet and extranet Web sites, reports Source Wire.

Fuqua will use the enterprise level solution to deliver a single Web Content Management (WCM) platform to its staff.

Faculty and staff will use Alterian Content Management to build, manage and publish dynamic content directly to the site, improving the speed, responsiveness, ease-of-use and quality of content.

Alero Technology has released the Alero 2008 R1 enterprise content management platform, says Market Watch.

The platform can orchestrate any number of active servers to manage disparate repositories as one, easy-to-manage virtual repository, complaint with all service-orientated architectures.

Alero 2008 R1 gives complex system environments fault tolerance, clustering, pharming and server virtualisation.