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Emphasizing the "T" in ETL

8-Oct-2004

Tags: Web Content and Experience Management, , Implementation

Experienced datacenter hands argue that content migration is really just a new take on the old problem of extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL). They are right. The better web content migration tools have ETL roots, and some of them are starting to provide additional functionality beyond initial webpage migration. For example, Danish migration vendor Kapow (which is now embedded in Fatwire's Web CMS solution) is extending its suite to provide real-time content integration. Scottish vendor Vamosa has ambitious plans to provide content transformations as a utility service via a rules engine that works in tandem with CMS workflow systems. CMS products can put content objects through approval processes, but rarely excel at applying specific business rules (e.g. applying context-specific metadata or chunking a document) along the way. All the more reason for a services-oriented approach to managing content: it can allow you to plug in valuable capabilities from specialist vendors...
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