Recent Blog Entries

ECM TALK - A New Podcast Series

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Sep-2010

Before speaking at industry events I often post a blog asking people to come along and say hello in person. In London a few months back James Lappin did just that, and though I knew of James as an Records Management (RM) expert by reputation, I had not actually met him in person ... Continue Reading

Impact of IBM's acquisitions for Unica customers

Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Sep-2010

Our colleague Phil Kemelor offers a briefing for our Web Analytics research subscribers assessing IBM's recent acquisition of Unica. To quote ... Continue Reading

Atex? Who?

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Sep-2010

A couple of people pinged me last week, basically asking, "who are these Atex people?" (The company's name got a bit elevated when they made it onto Gartner's recent Magic Quadrant analysis for web content management.) ... Continue Reading

The Ethics of Software Criticism

Added By Theresa Regli on 6-Sep-2010

If there is anything I follow just as closely if not more closely than the world of content management, it is the world of food. If I'm not talking to customers about DAM vendors or watching demos of the latest software, you can safely bet I'm either shopping for food, cooking, hosting friends for a lavish multi-course meal ... Continue Reading

Hyland acquires Hershey Software

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 1-Sep-2010

Ok you probably did a double take when you saw that Hyland had acquired Hershey's. Sadly the world of chocolate and ECM are not about to merge. ... Continue Reading

When 66KB really equals 4.12MB

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 1-Sep-2010

Just as Route 66 in the United States has taken on a mythical status, 66KB is begining to take on the same legendary status in my own little world of ECM ... Continue Reading

What's next for the mobile Internet in India

Added By Apoorv Durga on 30-Aug-2010

Last week, I attended two conferences in Delhi. Coincidentally, both of them were on similar topics. The first one, organized by Indian trade body, NASSCOM was about mobile Internet and appstores, while the second one was about mobile applications (although it ended up as a conference for sales pitches by device vendors) ... Continue Reading

Join me for a DAM Diagnostic Webinar

Added By Theresa Regli on 30-Aug-2010

I'll be hosting a webinar next week, talking about Digital Asset Management ... Continue Reading

Sitecore 6.3 is more Major than Minor

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Aug-2010

Danish CMS vendor Sitecore released their new version 6.3 last month. For me, the immediate question always is: how much has changed? It's only a dot release, so it shouldn't be anything major, right? Well ... Continue Reading

Getting beyond the Magic Quadrant for WCM

Added By Tony Byrne on 26-Aug-2010

Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management 2010 is out, accompanied by vendors' public crowing and private tears, depending on their placement. You can get a copy of the MQ from Sitecore, who just obtained a ticket on the magic elevator ... Continue Reading

When a SharePoint Cloud is all puffery

Added By Shawn Shell on 25-Aug-2010

As you may have noticed by the slew of announcements from Redmond, Microsoft has placed increasing emphasis on "cloud" computing ... Continue Reading

Skeptical about DotNetNuke getting enterprisey

Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Aug-2010

Many observers expected big things when DotNetNuke Corporation raised serious venture capital in November, 2008. (DotNetNuke Corporation is the commercial entity behind the sprawling, open source CMS community by the same name) ... Continue Reading

The case for PDF/A as an archival format

Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Aug-2010

All enterprises need to archive certain documents, but what's the best approach? Specifically, are there better alternatives to the traditional TIFF format? In a new advisory briefing, we argue that PDF/A brings several advantages ... Continue Reading

Vendor Landscapes and Horse Races

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Aug-2010

There's an odd fascination with equestrianism in technology. Vendor landscapes are often described as horse races; there's leaders and laggards, winners and losers. That's great for gamblers, investors, and jockeys. But it's not very useful ... Continue Reading

IBM and Coremetrics: A Second Look

Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Aug-2010

After discussions with several Coremetrics customers, we've taken a second look at IBM's acquisition of the web analytics vendor. To quote ... Continue Reading

What Exactly is IDOL, Anyway?

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Aug-2010

There's a lot of mysticism shrouding Autonomy's mega-search offering, "IDOL." Not in the least bit because every piece of software that is acquired by the vendor is either "plugged into," "powered by," or "integrated with" IDOL. Supposedly, ... Continue Reading

Join me for DAM in Chicago or Hollywood

Added By Theresa Regli on 17-Aug-2010

I'll be attending and speaking at the two Henry Steward Conferences on Digital Asset Management this fall in Chicago and Los Angeles. In addition to a presentation on what's new in DAM technology (with an updated focus on mobile), I'll be ... Continue Reading

Beware the WEM trap

Added By Apoorv Durga on 17-Aug-2010

You should be forewarned that in their quest for improving presentation management, vendors are soft-pedaling many core CMS concepts which haven't really seen a lot of innovation in recent times, and this, too, could impact your website visitor experience. ... Continue Reading