WESTBOROUGH, Mass.– Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU), a global IT services company that offers a broad spectrum of business consulting and outsourcing services, today introduced its new enterprise content management (ECM) offering, the Media Convergence Solution Accelerator.  Modeled after Virtusa’s success implementing interactive Web platforms for the world’s leading media brands, the new service combines best practices consulting with proven technology components to ensure a consistent, branded user experience that optimizes revenue generation opportunities.

As content channels proliferate, consumers become increasingly migratory yet expect a unified and interactive engagement experience with companies.  Media organizations often struggle to align their brand across channels, both from a content perspective and at the technical level.  Misalignment in a converged world hurts the customer experience, and can diminish advertising revenue and increase support costs. 

“As difficult as it is to manage content and technologies across disparate customer portals, it’s an opportunity for IT to directly impact the customer experience, branding and revenue generation – and these are precisely the kind of business results that Virtusa focuses on,” said Behzad Ilchi, Vice President for Virtusa’s Media and Entertainment segment. “Our Media Convergence Solution Accelerator is a truly proven approach that packages the best practices we’ve developed with some of the biggest media companies and gives customers more than 20 practical tools to replicate that success.” 

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Fuzzle CMS (http://fuzzle-cms.com) is a promising Flash CMS developed by a group of Russian programmers.  The system is claimed to be an extra easy way for creating Flash websites thanks to visual content management. Note, Fuzzle’s website is also made with this CMS.

Advantages of Flash and HTML in one system

A content management system (CMS) is a set of tools that lets you create and maintain your website’s content without knowing anything about programming. Fuzzle is a CMS for creating and managing Flash web sites that differs from regular HTML sites mainly by their presentational abilities: Flash technology allows incorporating complex animations and reach multimedia content. However, Flash sites are considered to have such disadvantages as longer time of development (therefore more cost), harder updating, bad search engines ranking. Fuzzle is breaking these stereotypes!

WYSIWYG site maintenance and other Fuzzle features

At the moment a stable version 3.6 of Fuzzle CMS is issued. It has the following main features:

• multilinguality;
• simple management (convenient visual editing is based on blocks placement );
• design integration from a draft within 5 minutes (Flash knowledge is not required);
• SEO support (HTML version auto generation, DeepLinking support);
• continuously replenished Widget Store availability;
• availability of a simple open API for external developers.

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Last week, CMS Report received an email regarding a new CMS that focuses on managing multimedia content. The application is written in Python so naturally we’re going to talk to let our readers know about this new platform.

I’m not sure if you guys have covered this yet, but as a regular reader of cmsreport.com I thought I would let you know.
Earlier this month my company launched a new Open Source python based CMS focused on video and podcasting.

http://getmediacore.com/

MediaCore is a free open source video cms and podcast platform.  MediaCore can pull video or audio from any source, track statistics, enable commenting, and provide a high degree of control over the presentation and administration.

Let me know if you guys need any further information on the project. Right now we are just trying to get the word out about it.

Cheers,
Stuart

Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia, a new book that will help developers build media-rich Joomla! websites by learning to embed and display multimedia content. Written by Allan Walker, an experienced Joomla developer and a member of the Joomla! Marketing Team, this book is a step-by-step tutorial to create a feature-packed media-rich Joomla! site. It will also help to build a livelier Joomla! website with videos, audios, images by using popular multimedia extensions.

Joomla! is the world’s hottest open source, award-winning content management system written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system to store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available.

Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia is a practical guide that shows how to include popular media elements into a website and collaborate with external web resources such as YouTube, Flickr and Google. It will teach readers to create regular podcasts and utilize RSS to help publicize and deliver their website content. Additionally, it also highlights the benefits of multimedia features and warns of the accessibility issues that can arise when they are misused.

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eBook readers are making big news in the publishing industry and in businesses of all types around the globe. Organizations small and large are realizing that in addition to the products and services they offer for sale, they are also publishers. As a result of this realization, we expect to see all sorts of business-critical content released in a format that can be viewed on eBook readers and other devices (smart phones, netbooks, laptops, etc.)

One of the most common eBook formats is PDF, which provides much more functionality than many people realize. Today, PDF supports 3D graphics, audio, video and much more. When you combine this functionality with the popularity of video content (think YouTube) and support for the most common eBook specification — .epub — it’s easy to see why many organizations will provide how-to instructional video content in a PDF eBook format. After all, some types of content are just more useful when they are presented in video and are available on any device type that supports PDF and/or .epub.

[Note: Related information: Learn more about PDF/A - PDF for archiving (an ISO standard).]

While video is certainly a useful addition to the eBook arena, there’s a humorous side to video support in eBooks. Watch this short, humorous Amazon Kindle 3 parody video from the folks at CollegeHumor.com for a chuckle.