XML in the Content Lifecycle

Key Findings:

  • The market for XML content lifecycle solutions is expected to grow from $1.8 Billion in 2003 to over $11.6 Billion by 2008.
  • Producers of content in the enterprise spend over 60% of their time locating, formatting, and structuring content and just 40% of their time actually creating it.
  • By 2008, about 60% of all content lifecycle products will be XML-enabled.
  • the primary challenge in the enterprise for producers of content — information that is intended for human consumption — is content reuse: the ability to integrate content from disparate sources.
  • Efforts to improve content processes have been slowed by efforts to extract and manipulate content from multiple, disparate data sources.

Table of Contents:

  • I. Report Scope
  • II. The Growth and Management of Content in the Enterprise
    • 2.1. Sources and Growth of Content in the Enterprise
    • 2.2. The Content Management Challenge
    • 2.3. The Evolution of the Content Management System (CMS)
    • 2.4. Markup Languages and Content
  • III. The Content Lifecycle
    • 3.1. Content Creation
    • 3.2. The Content Repository
    • 3.3. Content Management
    • 3.4. Content Publishing and Distribution
    • 3.5. Content Syndication
    • 3.6. Content Protection
  • IV. XML-Enabling the Content Lifecycle
    • 4.1. Is XML Necessary for Improving the Content Lifecycle?
    • 4.2. Content Creation: XML-based Authoring and Conversion
    • 4.3. Content Repository: Native XML Storage and Search
    • 4.4. Content Management: XML-based Content Componentization
    • 4.5. Content Publishing and Distribution
    • 4.6. Content Syndication: XML Standards and Products
    • 4.7. Content Protection: XML-powered DRM
  • V. The ROI of XML-enabling the Content Lifecycle
    • 5.1. Cost Savings: Content Reuse
    • 5.2. Cost Savings: Efficient Content Search
    • 5.3. Revenue Enhancing: Enabling Content Syndication
    • 5.4. Cost Savings: Integrating Islands of Content
  • VI. Challenges in Implementing an XML-enabled Content Lifecycle
    • 6.1. Metadata-encoding Content is Difficult
    • 6.2. XML May Not be Suitable as a Long-term Archival Format
  • VII. The Service-Oriented Vision of Content
    • 7.1. Shifting away from a Publish-oriented Mentality
    • 7.2. Content as Services: Service-Oriented Content
    • 7.3. Content Lifecycle Functionality as Services
  • VIII. Market for XML-enabled Content Lifecycle Products
    • 8.1. Market Sizing and Growth
    • 8.2. Vendor Market Segmentation and Positioning
    • 8.3. The Future of Content Management Systems
  • IX. Conclusions
    • 9.1. Key Notes
    • 9.2. Decision Points
    • 9.3. Figures
    • 9.4. Tables
  • X. Profiled Vendors
    • 10.1. Content Creation
    • 10.2. Content Repository
    • 10.3. Content Management
    • 10.4. Content Publishing / Distribution
    • 10.5. Content Syndication
    • 10.6. Content Protection
  • Related Research
  • Trademark Notice and Statement of Opinion
  • About ZapThink, LLC

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