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Selecting Wine and Software

31-Mar-2010

Tags: Component Content Management, Digital and Media Asset Management, Document Management (ECM), E-mail Archiving and Management, Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software, Enterprise Search, Evaluating SharePoint, Portals and Content Integration, SharePoint Ecosystem, Web Analytics, Web Content and Experience Management, Selecting Technology

When I tell people that we evaluate enterprise content technologies and advise clients on picking the right technology solution, the inevitable response is always:

"So, what is the best system out there?"

This of course leads to a long discussion about how -- when it comes to selecting a Web CMS, ECMS, Document Management system, Enterprise Portal, DAM system, or Search and Information Access system -- there is no best vendor or product. As readers of our head-to-head evaluation research know, we never declare a best product; rather we rank products on their suitability to address the needs of specific scenarios.

Explaining this approach to people who expect to find a best-in-class for everything can be challenging. Over the years we've come up with a multitude of metaphors to help us explain. My colleague, Theresa Regli, recently recorded this video using one of her favorite analogies.

Selecting the right enterprise software is a lot like selecting the right wine to have with dinner.

If you need help selecting the right content technology for your enterprise, check out our research, download a free sample, or give us a call. If you need help selecting the right wine with dinner, you'll have to contact Theresa directly!

    Excerpt from the Universal Content Management Evaluation

    Web Content Management Report looks at... Idoc Script in Oracle Universal Content Management

    "Idoc Script -- developed originally by Stellent as a page language -- is simple, VB-like, and has been extended by Oracle with new methods (so it's not going away any time soon). You can use Idoc for a variety of purposes. However, because Idoc Script is a proprietary language, in a world that's turning more and more in the direction of open standards, developers who have experience with this one-off language are increasingly hard to find. It's certainly not a great career builder for your own engineers, although some of them will need to learn it, regardless..."
    (p. 232)

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