Information lifecycle management vision (SUN/InfoWorld)

Information lifecycle management (ILM) has been widely discussed without the formalization of a clear and compelling vision. This white paper offers insights on how to develop a sound overall ILM implementation strategy. Download this white paper featured on the Sun Enterprise Solutions Spotlight on InfoWorld.com:

http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=131B69E:1F34237

A Better Understanding of the Enterprise Information Portal Market (Intranet Journal)

The principal Enterprise Information Portal vendors fall into one of seven major
categories. This wide range of players can be explained by the fact that an ...

Sometimes the best things for your computer are free (FT)

It is often said that there is no such thing as a free lunch and, when it comes to software, this is often (sadly) true. Many "free" software programs have limited functionality, come with annoying adware or keep pestering users to upgrade to the full version. Nevertheless, if you are willing to put some time in, there are a few genuinely free programs that are as good as or even better than their commercial counterparts. So, as 2005 draws to a close, I decided to offer up a selection of my favourite free packages.

IBM Buys Bowstreet, Shores Up WebSphere Portlet Capabilities (Gartner)

The purchase of Bowstreet addresses a shortcoming in IBM's portal product, and Bowstreet customers gain needed stability. But IBM and its competitors still face challenges in portlet development.

SMB Hot Spots (Line56)

Yankee Group survey points to some areas of opportunity for vendors in what other another research group says is a slowing marketplace

Keyword: SMB

IBM offering content management for SMBs

IBM is responding to demands from smaller companies for low-cost, ready-to-go software with a new content management offering packaged on its eServer iSeries systems, the company announced last week.

The software, called DB2 Content Manager Standard Edition 8.3, is designed to let small and midsize organizations make better use of important business information that might be spread out among numerous and diverse applications and processes.

Microsoft’s Challenges in 2006 (Red Herring)

Software giant needs to perfect strategy and execution in 2006 if it wants to beat competitors ranging from Sony to Google.

SMB IT Spending Slump (Line56)

Vendors beware, markedly slower growth projected for 2006; could be part of a larger small business issue

Keyword: SMB IT

The E-Business Advantage (Line56)

How information technology can help smaller companies hold their own against larger competitors

Compliance Dominates IT Spending (Line56)

Compliance and governance will claim as much as 15 percent of 2006 enterprise IT budgets, says Gartner

Keyword: SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley)

A great year for design (FT)

FT writers identify winners and losers in 2005, a year when consumer technology dominated.

TNT delivers online (FT)

When you congratulate Peter Bakker, chief executive of TNT, the Dutch postal and logistics group, on the company website’s number one position in the FT’s 2005 Webranking survey, you soon realise it was a personal goal for him.

Update: IBM offers content management for SMBs (InfoWorld)

Big Blue packages new content management offering on its eServer iSeries systems

Stellent Listed In 'Leaders' Quadrant In Enterprise Content Management Magic Quadrant Report From Top Industry Analyst Firm (ECM Connection)

Stellent, Inc., a global provider of content management solutions, announced today it was listed in the "leaders" quadrant in Gartner, Inc.’s "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), 2005" report. Gartner (NYSE: IT) is the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry. This report is Gartner’s second edition of the Enterprise Content Management Magic Quadrant.

Information On Demand (Line56)

This is how to make information work for your business, according to IBM

Gartner: CIOs should prepare for 'second' Internet (InfoWorld)

During the next year, chief information officers (CIO) should pay acute attention to how technologies such as blogging and podcasting will affect their businesses and be ready for innovation with those technologies by their competitors, Gartner analysts said Thursday.

E-Discovery: Definitions, Advice and Vendors (Gartner)

CIOs, general counsels, IT security professionals, records and e-mail administrators, and operations staff need to understand IT's role in legal discovery. IT plays an important role in how content that becomes evidence is created, preserved, collected and turned over to the appropriate authorities.

Gartner to IT: Place Blackberry deployments on hold (InfoWorld)

Gartner warns enterprises to wait and see if legal woes for RIM will shut down BlackBerry service in the U.S.

Study: Google users wealthier, more Net savvy (InfoWorld)

The longer people have been using the Internet, the more likely it is that they'll use Google, study finds

OpenDocument Tipping Point (Line56)

Sun's perspective on the adoption and momentum of OpenDocument

AP Knowledge Base (Line56)

Introducing a portal and knowledge base for accounts payable (AP) professionals that pools intelligence and best practices

40% IT Shrinkage (Line56)

Expect a major contraction by 2010, says Gartner; "pure IT" dying, but new IT doing fine

SMB Virtual Officer Primer (InfoWorld)

There are millions of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in North America. Many will never have an IT budget going beyond the purchase of some computers, basic connectivity, and low-level applications. This article, which aggregates information presented on Line56 some months ago, explains how such a company can go from e-mail to basic content management using free online tools.

Sun moves to reinvent itself (FT)

Sun Microsystems took another big step towards reinventing itself as an open source software, systems and services company on Wednesday announcing that key software tools will in the future be provided at no cost to developers and others.

Microsoft set to follow Google on online listings (FT)

Microsoft is set to follow Google into the online listings business, opening a new front in the rapidly expanding competition between the two technology companies and creating a new competitor to other newspaper and internet listings services.

While the idea echoes Google Base, an online listing service which the search engine company launched in beta, or test, form two weeks ago, Microsoft said it had been developing the idea behind Fremont since early this year.

Google Base has become the subject of heated debate among analysts and bloggers, some of whom have been quick to attribute grand ambitions to the new service.

As a structured database that invites internet users to enter information in a prescribed form – for instance, the price of a house would be entered in a box headed “price” on a form specially designed for house sales – Google Base would create a highly organised body of data that could form the basis for a wide range of future services.

Microsoft's Open XML Moves May Stall OpenDocument Format (Gartner)

Microsoft is moving toward making its Open XML file format a true open standard. But enterprises seeking an open document format do not need to delay current projects until they evaluate the Microsoft specification.

FileNet Named to Leader Quadrant in Enterprise Content Management Report

COSTA MESA, Calif., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FileNet Corporation(Nasdaq: FILE), the leading provider of Enterprise Content and BusinessProcess Management solutions, today announced it has been positioned in the"Leader" quadrant by Gartner Inc., a premier industry research and advisoryfirm, in its 2005 Magic Quadrant assessment of Enterprise Content Managementvendor offerings.(1)

In 2004 the Content Management Analysis Showed That the Combined Software License Industry Was Worth $1.3 Billion, but by 2011 It is Expected to Reach

DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2005--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c28576 ) has announced the addition of Content Management - Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2005 To 2011 to their offering.

Enterprise content management solutions are industry specific and may span several different product sets. Market growth of the content management market segment is tied to the transfer of the paper-based enterprise to an enterprise that manages all information electronically. Publishing information to the Web is a small part of the total content management markets.