Digital service providers must incorporate content technologies and infrastructure to effectively refocus the industry on content-centered business models.

(PRWEB) January 7, 2004 --Research and Markets announces the addition of this report entitled "Production Workflow Solutions Product Compendium: Content Technologies" to its offerings.

The market for dynamic content software is at the precipice of a significant period of technology convergence and vendor consolidation. Whether vendors in this market are choosing to build, buy, or partner to obtain the technologies seen as critical to meeting customer and prospect demands, the consolidation effect" that usually marks convergence is unmistakable. This report defines a number of categories within the dynamic content software market. These are the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Solutions, which are systems used to create, manage, deliver, and archive Web content and documents delivered via multiple media. This category includes document management (DM), digital asset management (DAM), Web content management (WCM), e-Catalog Management, and Records Management (RM) solutions.

Collaboration Solutions are systems that provide Web-enabled environments for workers to create and exchange information and documents, coordinate activities and projects, build communities, manage business relationships, and enhance knowledge management initiatives.

Enterprise Portal Solutions are systems used to provide a window to a wide range of information, from company documents, content, and data to external resources and publications. They may include private (internal) or public (external) portal implementations.

Content Analysis and Enrichment Technologies are products that help refine the selection of content for delivery or viewing. Technologies in this category include text searching and mining, categorization and taxonomy, meta-tagging, visualization, and personalization products.

Finally, Content Distribution Technologies are products that manage or deliver content outside the direct control of an Enterprise Content Management, Collaboration, or Portal Enterprise Portal solution. Technologies in this category include content syndication and Digital Rights Management (DRM) products.

This report suggests that digital service providers must incorporate content technologies and infrastructure to effectively refocus the industry on content-centered rather than print-centered business models. In effect, the printing and publishing industry must be recreated as the content publishing services industry to respond to a market demand for solutions and services that provide optimum ways to distribute relevant, accurate documents as effectively and efficiently as possible, in multiple formats.

Digital services providers can facilitate this mandatory industry evolution by offering services to manage, store, aggregate, and distribute content for their clients.

This document discusses trends and available solutions in the Enterprise Content Management category to assist digital service providers in establishing an infrastructure suitable for content publishing services.

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