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Enterprise data management technology vendor Kapow Software is partnering with global information management solutions provider SDL’s web content management (WCM) division to automate the migration of legacy digital assets to the SDL Tridion WCM application. The Kapow Katalyst application integration platform can now automatically access, transform and migrate legacy digital assets, such as web content and metadata without causing business disruptions for the end user.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has been trying to buy back a big stake in the company from Yahoo! for two years now, in a bid to expand its business and eventually issue an initial public offering. Earlier this week, Yahoo! and Alibaba have approved a US$ 7.1 billion deal that analysts consider to be helpful for both companies moving forward. The pressing question now is whether Alibaba can reach Facebook heights if and when it goes for an IPO.

If you think that Documentum has left its best days behind, there’s now reason to reconsider. Though the slumbering ECM industry giant might have been caught resting on its laurels for a wee bit too long, it has now come back to life with the passion and the energy of a newcomer who has something to prove.

Mindjet has rolled its most powerful products into one comprehensive solution for growing businesses.

Open source CMS vendor ProcessWire has released a new version of its PHP-based platform. Version 2.2 is the third release for the CMS that went to beta in February 2011. Version 2.2 has a long list of enhancements and new features that may make the platform more attractive in the increasingly crowded open source CMS field.

The move to Office 365 — and SharePoint online — is getting more attractive every day. The functionality is there, the price is just about right, so why not? If you are considering a move to the cloud-based version of SharePoint, there are a few things you should consider in your migration planning.

The weather finally turned hot this week in Europe, and it looks like it could fray tempers a bit as Oracle, SAP and IBM once again set upon a collision course — this time over data management around e-commerce.

Many organizations deal with information management issues every day. They have information management projects, tools, strategies and other means to manage their information. Some projects are successful, but many are not. Decision makers often have no idea where all these projects and tools are leading them to.

Have you heard of social marketing and engagement platform Vitrue? Well it was just acquired by enterprise content management giant Oracle, with plans to add its capabilities to the Oracle Cloud.

Enterprise social software provider Moxie Software is enhancing the functionality of its Spaces by Moxie customer communication suite to aid customer service efforts of companies in highly regulated industries. New features are designed to make internal experts available to assist customer service agents with complex inquiries and to ease compliance with regulations regarding data security and customer privacy.

This month we’ve been tackling the ins and out of mobile customer experience. What better way to continue the discussion than via a Tweet Jam today. Have you been tasked with understanding how the mobile customer experience fits in with your overall business strategy? Are you on the marketing team that’s building a mobile marketing plan?

Whatever your role, the questions our panelists will answer, and the insights you provide from your own experience will guide the conversation and give us all a close look at how mobile is affecting organizations today.

At 1pm EDT, 10am PDT, join the CMSWire community to discuss:

1. How are you making the business case for mobile?
2. How does a mobile first strategy change your overall approach to CXM?
3. Mobile site vs. mobile app — how are you deciding today? How is responsive design impacting your thinking?
4. What mobile metrics are changing your thinking about the channel?
5. What’s the biggest gap you see in the mobile experience market today?

A great lineup of panelists — check them all out here. Remember, your ideas and opinions are important to, so contribute freely.

To participate, join our TweetChat room, follow the #CXMChat hashtag on your favorite Twitter tool, or hang out here with Cover-It-Live:

CMSWire’s Mobile CXM Tweet Jam #CXMChat

Just a quick reminder on the rules:

• Introduce yourself with your first #CXMChat tweet. Include your name, job title and organization you work for.
• Subsequent tweets must start with the question number you are responding to and the #CXMChat hashtag. For example, "@bigbird Q5 We have a great team that manages our digital asset strategy #CXMChat"
• Please don’t pitch products or services; stay knowledge focused
• Keep the discussion professional, but informal
• Remember that this is a public chat — be thoughtful

See you soon!

SharePoint users can connect to their Picturepark DAM solution without leaving their application, a Forrester researcher looks at the future of DAM, a library science student shares a detailed DAM primer and North Plains and Xinet host a webinar soon.

Let’s not beat around the bush. Why don’t you want users to adopt SharePoint?

 Consider for a moment that you are a health care provider. For every patient you see, you hear “I read on the Internet that …” As a result, you may spend a great deal of time re-educating the consumer and separating fact from fiction — unless of course, there was some way to ensure that the bulk of health information being consumed online was accurate and up-to-date. Healthline Networks’ new Consumer Engagement Platform is helping to make that dream a reality.  

This week there is OpenText’s announcement that Metastorm BPM has been given some very serious security certifcation, EMC buys Syncplicity and offers cloud governance, Iron Mountain outlines the problems created by SharePoint and Social Media in records management and BWise moves on from acquisition.

In 2007, Steve Jobs took the stage and announced that Apple was poised to introduce a revolutionary phone and a breakthrough Internet communications device. The big reveal during this announcement was that these 2 products were actually 1 product and it was called the iPhone. This device would make the Internet and the web more accessible than ever.

There has been a lot written on the value an engaged community can bring an organization. There’s also a lot of great advice on how to be a great Community Manager. But if you are still struggling to figure out how to do it right — from the start — or wondering how your current community stacks up, there’s a new community framework available to help you out.

With a new update for Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows and devices like the phenomenal-looking Leap from LeapMotion due soon, do we really need touchscreen PCs? Will future systems skip ahead of phones and tablets with embedded sensors to provide more intuitive interaction and bring back a sense of magic to computing?

Our May Mobile Experience Tweet Jam is coming fast, so let’s take some time to prepare by looking at the questions that will be asked and the experts from the field who will be answering them tomorrow.

Source code hosting site GitHub began in 2008 as a side project to provide an easy hosting option for developers. The site has since grown to more than 1.6 million users and over 2.8 million source code repositories. The popular site has finally released a Windows version of its client that works with everything from Windows XP to pre-release versions of Windows 8.