NCompass bolsters content management software
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With enterprise Web sites becoming more like enterprise content sites, NCompass Labs next week will release software designed to help those building storefronts with Microsoft Commerce Server more easily manage their mountains of data.
Content management features are one of the weak spots in Commerce Server, and NCompass is embedding its Resolution 4.0 into the Microsoft server software.
On top of that integration, Resolution 4.0 also adds support for clustering, archiving, content personalization and version/revision tracking.
Content management software lets Web site administrators and developers off-load to end users the tasks of creating and publishing content to a Web site.
"We are a small technology development group, but being a financial institution our Web site content changes frequently," says Eileen Flanagan, manager of the application development unit in the Global Investment Group division of the American International Group, a top insurance and financial services company.
"With Resolution, we took responsibility for those changes out of the developer's hands," she adds.
Flanagan chose Resolution over other content management packages from Vignette and Interwoven because of its simplicity.
"We didn't want to learn a new scripting language and we didn't need all the features, plus the cost was too high for us," Flanagan says.
But she doesn't have immediate plans to integrate Resolution with Commerce Server, which runs only on the Windows 2000 platform. "We are not far along in our Windows 2000 rollout," she says.
Fortunately, Resolution 4.0 runs on Windows NT 4.0 as well as Win 2000.
But one of the highlights of the 4.0 release is the Resolution Content Connector, which allows users to run the software directly from Commerce Server interfaces.
"We are really beefing up the Commerce Server platform," says Chris Ramsey, product marketing director for NCompass. "Web sites are being used for electronic commerce and that means end-users need to put new content on a site daily."
In addition to integration features, NCompass has added cluster support so the software is compatible with load-balancing technology used to support many large Web sites.
NCompass also has added meta-tagging capabilities to facilitate personalization of Web content, and site archiving so end users can view a Web site as it appeared on any past date in time.
A versioning and revisioning feature lets users track changes to content, objects and code.
Resolution 4.0 stores its content on SQL Server 7.0 or 2000, and uses Active Directory or NT domains to assign access rights to authors, editors and template developers.
Resolution 4.0 is priced at $59,000, with the connector for Commerce Server priced at $10,000.
NCompass: www.ncompasslabs.com
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