IBM's Lotus Software subsidiary has jumped into the content
management arena with a packaged bundle of products and
services.
The Lotus Web Content Management Solution ties together existing
Lotus and IBM systems with the Aptrix Web content management engine
from Presence Online and services from Andersen Consulting.
"We can leverage the collaboration capabilities of Domino and the
transactional strength of WebSphere in the same solution," said Tom
Libretto, senior manager of content management at Lotus.
The integration consists of hooks built into the Aptrix content
management engine that push content in and out of the Lotus
Domino.doc document management system and the WebSphere platform.
The system runs on Domino and WebSphere.
Lotus and IBM have been lacking a Web content engine, according to
Libretto. "We have a variety of technologies that do elements of
Web content management," Libretto said. "The missing link was the
traditional Web content management engine that facilitates the
creation of a dynamic Web site, all of the presentation components,
and integration with back-end data systems to publish to the
Web."
The IBM-Lotus push into content management makes sense, as content
management becomes tightly bound to infrastructure and
applications, according to Rob Perry, senior analyst at Yankee
Group. "Content management is an important part of the
infrastructure platform for applications. Lotus and IBM have
WebSphere and a portal. Adding content management on top of this
makes sense," Perry said.
Meanwhile, established content management player Interwoven this
week will introduce Version 5.5 of its TeamSite XML-based Web
content management infrastructure platform. Version 5.5 includes
allows users to centrally manage multiple independent content
stores.