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Latest updates to WCM vendor evaluations

Added By Tony Byrne on 29-Jul-2010

This month we updated evaluations for four Web CMS vendors: SaaS players Clickability and OmniUpdate, as well as Drupal and GOSS ... Continue Reading

Adobe To Acquire Day - First Take ECM Perspective

Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Jul-2010

Adobe Systems today announced their intent to acquire Day Software. We've seen Adobe featuring in many Content Management RFPs and although they had some of the necessary pieces including Adobe Contribute and LiveCycle, they were never taken seriously as a Content Management player. An OEM deal with Alfresco a few years back though well intentioned didn't help much but this announcement will surely change the situation dramatically. ... Continue Reading

Evaluating SharePoint 2010 as a Content Management Platform

Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Jul-2010

With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has strongly promoted the platform's upgraded content management capabilities. Now that the hype is died down, and there are production implementations in the field, it's possible to take a harder look ... Continue Reading

Updated ECM evaluations released

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-Jul-2010

Today we are releasing a fairly substantial update to our ECM evaluation research. Over the past few months we have been looking in detail into product changes across some of the larger and better known ECM suite vendors ... Continue Reading

JackBe's App Store is interesting but not new

Added By Apoorv Durga on 19-Jul-2010

JackBe, one of the Mashup vendors we cover in our Portals and Content Integration Research, announced version 3.0 of their Mashup product Presto. The new version features enhancements ... Continue Reading

Some thoughts on updated web analytics vendor evaluations

Added By Phil Kemelor on 19-Jul-2010

I started working the Web Analytics Report for The Real Story Group (formerly CMS Watch) three years ago. It took me six months to complete the first edition, working pretty much full time. This was a new endeavor; the only other coverage of the web analytics space was done by ... Continue Reading

CoreMedia integrates with SAP NetWeaver Portal

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 15-Jul-2010

If you're running a SAP NetWeaver Portal -- presumably since you've bought into SAPs infrastructure -- you may have discovered it's not the most ideal of platforms to actually publish content on ... Continue Reading

ECM Price Lists: Why the Secrecy?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Jul-2010

Yesterday morning I was reading through Oracle's recently updated price list (yes my Monday mornings really are that exciting). I was thinking that I have long valued the fact that I can access simple, clear and open prices from major vendors like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. I might occasionally gasp at the prices listed ... Continue Reading

How to get the right vendors to respond to your RFP

Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Jul-2010

Many of our enterprise research customers are reporting an interesting trend: fewer responses to their RFPs (a.k.a., "tenders"). Even vendors they had at the top of their lists may decline to bid. This puzzles them ... Continue Reading

Justifying the cost of e-government

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Jul-2010

There is an outcry in the UK at the moment over the cost of building and maintaining Government websites. The figures released by the government relating to individual department website costs ... Continue Reading

Don't ogle search if you really want content management

Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Jul-2010

I'll agree with mega-vendor Autonomy on one key point: Search technology is really important. But is it so important that search functionality should dominate your choice in a content management system? ... Continue Reading

Office 2010 and SharePoint 2007 - Not Perfect Together

Added By Shawn Shell on 7-Jul-2010

While perhaps not the use case that Microsoft envisioned, it's a definite possibility: firms continuing to run their SharePoint 2007 applications and upgrading their desktops to Office 2010 ... Continue Reading

Do you need a simple or a complex CMS?

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 7-Jul-2010

I sometimes warn that a vendor's content management system is well suited to "simple" scenarios, but not necessarily a good fit for "more complex" cases. That's a bit problematic: ... Continue Reading

SDL acquires XML editor Xopus

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 6-Jul-2010

After a long spending spree -- pretty much on anything XML -- SDL has now acquired small Dutch vendor Xopus ... Continue Reading

WordPress 3.0 released: Bzzzzz.

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Jul-2010

Well, it was to be expected: after a long wait, WordPress 3.0 got released just when I was on a short holiday. (WordPress admins shouldn't be allowed to take holidays for that exact reason.) ... Continue Reading

Does SharePoint Cause Information Management Problems?

Added By Shawn Shell on 1-Jul-2010

In a recent article in Computing regarding this subject, the author suggests that SharePoint is the cause of recent information management challenges within organizations adopting the platform ... Continue Reading

Decoding Content Management jargon

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 1-Jul-2010

Now that we've built content management to reach into the clouds, have we been punished by a confusion of tongues? Sure, there are tangible differences between, say, a page-based or a component-based system. And some labels are rooted in their underlying technology. Still, there's a couple of archetypes we could at least attempt to label similarly ... Continue Reading

Web Analytics Evaluations - Version 5

Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Jun-2010

Yesterday we released Version 5 of our Web Analytics evaluation research, with detailed evaluations of 22 vendors ... Continue Reading

Red Hat Releases JBoss EPP 5

Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Jun-2010

Although released a couple of weeks back, Red Hat made a formal announcement of the release of their new JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform (EPP 5) on Thursday at the Red Hat summit in Boston. As we have mentioned before, this release is a completely re-architected platform built on GateIn, the portal they jointly developed with eXo. ... Continue Reading

ECM3 Maturity Model - Version 2.0

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 28-Jun-2010

The community commons ECM Maturity Model (www.ECM3.org) progressed to v2.0 last week ... Continue Reading

ECM co-existence and the vuvuzela

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Jun-2010

I'm in the middle of reviewing feedback for a number of ECM product evaluations that I'm presently updating. The upgrade from minor version to minor version (1.7 to 1.8 etc) is usually heralded by loud marketing cries from the suppliers. Closer inspection though tends to reveal fixes and gaps plugged, rather than anything revolutionary ... Continue Reading

Mashup technology pros and cons

Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Jun-2010

Yesterday, we officially released our updated Portal vendor evaluations, but under a new title, ": Portals and Content Integration." ... Continue Reading

UK Budget Cuts and Public Sector IT

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Jun-2010

In the UK today, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne will announce his emergency budget details. The one thing we know in advance is that this will contain some of the most severe cuts in recent history ... Continue Reading

Update to Portals Research

Added By Apoorv Durga on 22-Jun-2010

We've just released an update to our Portals evaluation research. Along with updates to the individual portal vendor evaluations, we have expanded the scope of our research to include a new category of related solutions that enable you to integrate and aggregate content from multiple sources ... Continue Reading