[CMS-PR] Release: CMS Watch and The Rockley Group Form Strategic Alliance

[Kristie Hughes - CMS Watch]

FOR RELEASE: 20 February, 2007

CONTACT:
Kristie Hughes, Marketing Director, CMS Watch 
Tel: +1 202 966 6999; E-Mail: khughes at cmswatch.com

     CMS Watch and The Rockley Group Form Strategic Alliance
      Will Publish New “Content Component Management Report”

Silver Spring, MD, USA and Schomberg, ON, Canada -- CMS Watch and The Rockley Group Inc. today announced that they have established a strategic alliance to create a new CMS Watch report evaluating Content Component Management technology. The forthcoming report will help enterprises sort through the complexities of choosing the right tool for managing discrete components of content in a multi-channel world. 

CMS Watch founder Tony Byrne said, “This part of the content management marketplace has been ignored too long, and The Rockley Group is the perfect team for delivering the kind of vendor-neutral, customer-oriented technology evaluations that CMS Watch has long published.”

The Rockley Group founder and President, Ann Rockley added, “CMS Watch is well-established as an unbiased source for content technology and we’re thrilled to embark upon this alliance. Today’s agreement sets forth our promise to provide a new and highly valuable resource on Structured Content Management.”

Under the alliance, CMS Watch and The Rockley Group are joining to produce a new report on the growing Content Component Management software marketplace.  Publishing is anticipated for Summer, 2007. 

Significant vendors in the Content Component Management space include: Astoria, AuthorIT, DocZone, PTC, SiberLogic, Trisoft, Vasont, XHive, XyEnterprise, Percussion, Tridion, Documentum, and Interwoven. 

The report will also evaluate major structured authoring tools, including JustSystems XMetaL, PTC Arbortext Editor, Adobe FrameMaker, Microsoft Word, and In.Vision Xpress Author.

About CMS Watch
CMS Watch(tm) is an analyst firm that provides an independent source of buyer's advice on content management, enterprise search, and portal technologies. Through highly detailed technical evaluations, CMS Watch helps sort out the complex landscape of potential solutions so that project teams can minimize the time and effort to identify and evaluate technologies suited to their particular requirements. To retain its independence as a vendor-neutral analyst firm, CMS Watch works solely for solutions buyers and never for the vendors it covers.

About The Rockley Group Inc. 
The Rockley Group Inc. has an international reputation for developing customer-centric enterprise content management strategies and underlying information architecture. They have helped organizations develop structured content reuse and unified content strategies across departments, divisions, and the enterprise. Working with customers in the Life Sciences (Eli Lilly, Guidant, Johnson&Johnson, Medtronic, Wyeth), Financial (Citibank, Bank of Canada, Deloitte & Touche, PWC) and High Technology (Business Objects, Cisco, HP, Lexmark, Symantec) industries, The Rockley Group has developed structured content reuse solutions to reduce the cost and effort of complex information creation and management.

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