IMS 2009 Online Information 2009

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Past, current and future content management technologies

1. The start. Past content management technologies

2. The present. Constant hunt for information

3. The most common problem sets today

4. Striving for the clearer future

5. Questions and answers

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Past content mngmt. technologies

• First standards of HTML and E-mail• The popularity of the HTML and the first websites• Active usage of the web as medium for exchanging

and publishing content• No vision, many different paths to solve the problems • Offline and online content publishing methods• The first shots at solving the problems created by the new standards• Needs that initiated the first content management systems• Hundreds of vendors and huge costs for customers

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Constant hunt for information

• From hundreds to thousands of vendors• Manual updates and numerous content versions• Lack of standard unifying the content exchange standards• Hard to index content with no solid connection

between bits and pieces• Heavy weight legacy systems slowing the development• Throwing gas on fire with social, mobile and other new mediums• Solving ongoing problems with new hacks to the legacy

technologies

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Most common problem sets today

• The content exchange between partners, reseller and other third parties• Keeping old legacy systems up and running;

expenses and restrictions• Different standards and legacy systems as barriers• Lack of effective content reuse across content life cycle• Accelerated mistakes on manual content updates in different mediums• Measuring the progress and sourcing information back issues• No standard linking possibilities between different information sets,

social, web, EMC, Skype, accounting, ERP, chat, mobile, e-mail, documents etc

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Striving for a cleaner future

1. New emerging standards like CMIS as a start2. More standards will emerge to offer organisations and individuals

shared resources for information exchange (Google wave for individuals) to break bad habits (e-mail!)

3. New flexible and affordable platforms that take account the changes in the space and advantage of the new standards

4. Content will be content/information reused and interconnected regardless where it is used; including web, print, EMC, intranet, pricelist, chat, e-mail etc.

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Thank you for your attention; any questions?

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