FatWire Software took the wraps off a low-cost content management
system designed to provide basic functions within an enterprise
portal.
The first edition of the company's Spark pCM (portal Content
Management) system was announced at the BEA eWorld Conference, and
will be made part of the BEA WebLogic Portal. Future versions are
planned for IBM, Oracle and Sun application and portal
servers.
Spark pCM includes departmental-level content management
capabilities such as workflow, basic search, version control, to-do
lists, and user and group management. The produt supports 10-20
users, but can be upgraded to FatWire's full enterprise-level
content management system, UpdateEngine6.
Most enterprises want content management functionality integrated
into the portal platform, said FatWire chief executive Mark
Fasciano.
"The portal vendors that provide built-in content management aren't
enterprise content management vendors. Fortune 1000 companies don't
want a dead-end content management offering," he said.
Spark pCM also integrates with J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition)
application and portal servers, said Fasciano.
"Customers are realising that a content management system and their
infrastructure - the application and portal servers - need to be
integrated from the ground up," he said. "This is going to be
important step in how content management is understood in the
field. From our position content management is an extension of the
application and portal server instead of a standalone application."
