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The Web CMS Report 2009 looks at... EMC/Documentum 6 Web Content Management

"There are many advantages to storing content as native objects (several other CMS packages, like Zope and Ingeniux, do this), but you should understand that this is the first of several places where you enter a kind of netherworld of Documentum-specific interfaces and query languages. For example, you access the Content Server using "DQL," short for Documentum Query Language. If Content Server is storing XML, you access it through "XDQL," rather than standard XML can openers like XPath and XQuery. "

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Joel on (Social) Usability

07-Sep-2004

In a long yet engaging article, noted software development guru Joel Spolksy has weighed in on software usability. The piece is a bit self-serving and at times seems to conflate usable interfaces with software usability more generally. The interesting part comes when Joel looks at "social interfaces" and their importance for successful products. This is increasingly germane from a content management perspective, as enterprises strive to overcome static, linear workflow approaches (hard-wired in many CMS software packages), and instead try to bend the tools to support more fluid and collaborative editorial process that mimic how people actually work collectively in the real world (as opposed to individually in the usability lab). All the more reason to test out any prospective content management solution for "social fit," before you buy...
Read "It's Not Just Usability"

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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