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Real Story Group March Madness Bracket

14-Mar-2011

Tags: Digital and Media Asset Management, Document Management (ECM), Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software, Web Content and Experience Management, Marketplace at Large

For most enterprises, selecting technology can be like picking a winner of the NCAA Basketball Tournament:

  • Lots of guessing
  • Favoritism to the teams/vendors you know
  • Limited research
  • A mix of predictability and surprises
  • Untold amounts of money changing hands
  • Madness

At the Real Story Group, we have helped thousands of enterprises across the world make this process a lot less maddening. Our vendor evaluation reports help you get to an appropriate short-list – an Elite Eight or Final Four, if you will. We specialize in winnowing down your choices from an entire marketplace to the vendors and products that could best fit for your needs. 

Thus, we thought it could be useful to provide a Content Technology Bracket to help you get started in your quest to "cut down the nets" with a successful content technology solution.

RSG Vendor Bracket

You can download a clickable bracket PDF here.

Some disclaimers: There's no such thing as a "best" software vendor. Thus, this depiction of the content technology landscape is not indicative of any seedings; rather it is a simple grouping of 64 of the more significant content technology vendors that we cover. The 64 chosen were done so randomly since we actually cover more than 150 vendors (you can see the full list here.) And we chose to depict only four of the seven market areas that we cover simply because in the NCAA bracket, there are four regions, not seven.

Good luck!

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