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If you have ever seen "content migration" go from being a single line in a project plan to being a never-ending saga of tedious database scripting and failed migration attempts, then take heed: there is a tool available.

It often seems that the primary purpose of localization is to create unreadable English that is cheap to translate into unreadable German.

Mainsoft likes to integrate SharePoint and IBM Products. They've done it with IBM's WebSphere Portal and with Lotus Notes. Today they are announcing that the Lotus Integration is going a few steps further covering more versions of the popular email client and Lotus Sametime.

AvePoint, a provider of data protection and management solutions for SharePoint, has released DocAve 5.0, the newest version of its flagship MOSS infrastructure management software platform. The company boasts “groundbreaking new functionalities” in the release that was primarily focused around the enhanced user interface, brand new modules and “intelligent” SharePoint backup and recovery.

Outsourcing to India, China and Ukraine doesn’t surprise us anymore. What we found interesting, however, is an emerging trend in the world of offshoring that doesn’t revolve around India and Chennai, in particular. Chennai may be losing its top placement on the list of offshore capitals of the world, as Lima, capital of Peru, comes in. Peru is starting to be seen as the new destination for general web development, as well as more specialized projects such as CMS implementations. What are the implications?

Gilbane has released a report that any organization catering to the global community needs to have a look at. It's entitled Multilingual Communications as a Business Imperative: Why Companies Need to Optimize the Global Content Value Chain -- don't be swayed by the less-than-captivating and very long title. It's chock full of qualitative research on how global businesses are creating, managing and publishing multilingual content. The short answer is that they're not.

Not all vendors out there believe that you should be able to move back and forth between Lotus Notes and SharePoint. AvePoint, provider of SharePoint infrastructure and administration management solutions, continually brings to market migration tools to move content from another product to SharePoint. Their latest migration tool is the DocAve Lotus Notes Migrator.

Your team has gone through the initial discovery analysis and you have selected your new web content management system. All is going well as you kick off the planning until someone on your team asks, “What about the content migration?”

You look to your agency and they just shake their heads, your guys from IT are staring back at you wide-eyed and your CMS vendor stutters back in response, “Uh..uh..uh well, that’s usually the customer’s responsibility.”