CMP MEDIA TO LAUNCH "TRANSFORM MAGAZINE" ON APRIL 30.

CMP Media (New York) will begin the publication of Transform Magazine with a May issue on April 30. Described as a relaunch of CMP's Imaging & Document Solutions, a monthly established in 1992 and inherited by CMP from Miller Freeman, the new title will also be published monthly for business and IT managers involved in content and collaboration technologies.

CMP said the decision to launch a new title reflects an expanded coverage of a broad range of technologies and topics, including the need for businesses to migrate to electronic information processes, to transform personal knowledge to shared corporate knowledge and to transform traditional business models into e-business. CMP said the magazine will focus exclusively on "content and collaboration technologies" for the capture, storage, management, delivery and sharing of business content.

CMP said content can include paper documents, electronic documents, e-mail, Web pages, graphics, audio and video. Collaboration technologies include content management, electronic bill presentment and payment, customer self-service and e-CRM, data and document capture, Web interaction and transaction management, e-process automation, and related e-business topics.

CMP group publisher Dave Kalman said the new title "addresses the need to manage and deliver corporate content across intranets and the Internet." The title, and its accompanying Web site (transformmagazine.com), will also include information on product reviews, analysis of technology trends and case studies of companies that have implemented content and collaboration strategies.