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O t h e r N e w s: A s i d e s: F a v o r i t e s: LEAD STORIES Content reuse - a key factor in assessing ROI for content management (part 2)Feb 22nd, 2005, DCLnewsIn part two of a guest article for DCLnews, content management guru Ann Rockley gives the lowdown on content reuse. Last month she talked about how to determine where reuse can positively impact your ROI; this issue she covers how to identify your percentage of reuse.
Weeding out wasted words saves money and livesFeb 22nd, 2005, DCLnews
EVENTS Webinar (this coming Tuesday!): Content reuse - a big ROI factor in content managementAnn Rockley, The Rockley Group, Tuesday March 1, 2005 at 1:30 - 2:30 PM Eastern (18:30 - 19:30 PM GMT)When implementing a content management system, reusing content can be the biggest factor for real return on investment. Reusing content (write once, reuse content many times) cuts costs in the creation, maintenance and delivery of content. Join us at our no cost March webinar and discover:
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Coming soon: Webinar - put your content on a dietContent reuse no cost webinar, presented by Arbortext and DCLWednesday, March 16, 2005, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (16:00 - 17:00 PM GMT) Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL) studies show most document collections contain more than 50% redundancy, meaning that most companies maintain twice as much content than needed at twice the expense. This can result in a waste of thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours each year. With content reuse, you can:
In this seminar, presented by Arbortext and DCL, you'll see how DCL's tool, Harmonizer, can easily help you eliminate redundant content, hear content reuse success stories from others, and learn the basics of a content reuse strategy. Sign up for this free online seminar now: OTHER NEWS Content management to be "beefed up"Jan 24th, 2005, Information Week
Content management will be even more innovative in the near future, according to a Forrester Research analyst, and "could focus on building out content-centric apps, addressing business needs better than they do now." An example of upcoming content-management applications that are industry-specific can be seen in a prototype created by Vizible Corp, which ties together fire, police, public works, and traffic information in a single view.
Oracle is another firm working on beefed up content management systems and already has a repository as part of its Content Management Software Developer's Kit, which supports rich media such as video and voice. Rich Buchheim, senior director of product development at Oracle, says: "We expect to add macro support like records management, versioning, and workflow [for rich content]." He warns, however, that high-level support for third-party content-management application vendors could take up to three years.
Space shuttle external tank manufacturing goes (near) paperlessFeb 17th, 2005, Frontline Solutions
"The [system] delivers the visibility and traceability that are critical as we initiate a near paperless manufacturing process for the Space Shuttle External Tank program," said John Welborn of Lockheed Martin Space Systems, who is overseeing the project. "[It] offers tools that organize shop floor work documentation and nonconformance data so we have an accurate view of work status at all times."
XML's seventh birthday marked in LondonFeb 10th, 2005, The Guardian
One of the creators of XML was in London at the beginning of the month to mark the seventh anniversary of the popular markup language, which drives everything from content management systems to web services. Jean Paoli, now the senior XML architect at Microsoft, said the success of XML was down to one thing: " We really wanted this to happen." He outlined the results of a Microsoft study which interviewed 126 UK IT managers and found that 59% were using XML technology. The usage mainly revolved around the delivery of web services and the exchange of data with external partners or suppliers. But 46% said they were using XML for creating web content, transformed with XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations).
Paoli highlighted another area where XML is making a big difference to the way we live: electronic forms that deliver XML to patient management systems, he said, are speeding up hospital emergency admissions, making sure accurate patient data is available to attending doctors.
Push for "healthcare internet"
Feb 7th, 2005, Computerworld
The Health Record Network Foundation (HRN), a joint venture of N.C.-based Duke University's medical and business schools has disclosed plans to launch a pilot program to create a portal where patient health information would be accessible over the Internet. HRN is also finalizing plans for a statewide pilot program in Wyoming and is in discussions with other states. Most efforts to extend the reach of electronic health records today focus on creating standards that link IT systems in physicians' offices, hospitals and insurance companies. In contrast, HRN plans to build on the pilot projects to form a "health care Internet" where authorized physicians and other users can access the health care history of all patients in the system. Information that would be stored in the system could include a child's immunization records, the health care history of an aging patient, prescription data and lab results, said Brian Baum, HRN's CEO .
Airbus unveils paperless "digital liner"
Jan 18th, 2005, CTV
The airliner's advanced onboard electronic information system puts all the safety, operating and maintenance information a crew needs at their fingertips. The cockpit is connected to a network of eight in-flight servers, offers triple redundancy and makes the A380 the most digitized plane in history. ASIDES Content management systems are a lot like human relationships...Feb 22nd, 2005, DCLnews
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Identifying duplicate paragraphs and phrases in documentation collections brings cost and maintenance savings and removes damaging errors - even ahead of the content management system. DCLnews reports.
NASA and Lockheed Martin Space Systems are to mothball three legacy applications in favor of a content management solution, that will make the exchange of information surrounding the building of space shuttle external tanks near paperless. Lockheed Martin Space Systems designs and assembles large aluminum structures like the space shuttle external tank for aerospace at the NASA assembly plant in New Orleans. The new information management solution allows Lockheed Martin to document, analyze and remove nonconformances, as well as manage the corrective and preventive action process.
The Airbus A380, the largest passenger plane in the world - unveiled in mid January in France - is set to be completely computerized, with no paper manuals or charts on board. "It allows the pilot not to bring any paper manuals in the cockpit. The big flight book they used to have is gone. It's replaced by computers," an aerospace expert said.
In this issue of DCLnews we've had the opinions of tech gurus and business leaders on content management systems (CMS). Now it's time for the real truth about them - they're a lot like relationships. Here's why:
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