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Updated Web Content Management Evaluations

20-Oct-2009

Tags: Web Content Management

Today we released our latest Web CMS evaluations, updating reviews of all forty-two vendors we cover.  There's a lot to say about the vendors, and over the coming weeks we'll explain how we've updated our criteria as well. 

For today, let's talk about the marketplace.  To quote from our release:

Enterprise-tier content management vendors continue to struggle in a Web Content Management marketplace characterized by a profusion of smaller players...

As always, subscribers will receive their updated version automatically in the next few days.  You can download a free sample here. 

    Excerpt from the Plone CMS Evaluation

    Web Content Management Report looks at... Usability in Plone

    "Usability is a mixed bag. While Plone's basic contributor interface is relatively simple and easy to use, many complain of a steep learning curve for administering, configuring, and integrating a Plone site. This is only partly a UI issue; it is mainly due to a large stack of new technology under the hood that you occasionally need to dip into in order to accomplish certain tasks. For example..."
    (p. 517)

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