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The content management software market in the Asia Pacific region could be worth US$362 million by 2012, according to a study from research firm IDC.

Truck importer and distributor Isuzu Australia has streamlined its workflow and boosted productivity by implementing a Web-based portal for staff and business partners.

EMC is upgrading its Documentum enterprise content management platform with several Web 2.0 tools and a software server designed to improve performance of "mass-volume applications" including archiving and transactional content systems.

New Zealand's incumbent business directory service, the Yellow Pages Group (YPG), is transforming its software infrastructure to enable its customers to personalize Web sites and leverage third-party content via SOA.

City West Water has reduced maintenance costs, eliminated paper based reporting and increased responsiveness with an integrated job management system and a new fleet of Next G handsets.

It's not always practical or affordable for large enterprises to consolidate their disparate systems that store unstructured content such as documents, Web material, and digital media. Yet maintaining these siloed applications introduces different costs and risks, including lack of security and records management. ECM (enterprise content management) systems address these shortcomings while leaving your existing file servers and other repositories in place. Although ECMs typically require yet another database, users continue accessing their existing desktop files and processes, while the content manager provides centralized storage, indexing, versioning, workflow, retention, and other services.

Vignette has a acquired a video publishing capability with the purchase of Vidavee for approximately US$6.6 million in cash.