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Web CMS Evaluations - OpenText, Oracle, Tridion, Sitecore, Joomla - and more

30-Aug-2011

Tags: Web Content and Experience Management, Selecting Technology, Cascade Server, FatWire Content Server, Joomla!, SDLTridion , Site Manager, Sitecore , Vignette - OpenText, Higher Ed

Earlier this week we released some key updates to our Web Content Management comparative vendor evaluations. This batch includes several players who claim to excel at "experience management." Unfortunately, they've generated substantially more new lines of marketing than new lines of code.

In any case, here's the raft of updates:

  • OpenText Web Experience Management: The former Vignette platform continues to struggle under its own weight
  • Oracle's FatWire Content Server: Nice technology -- up to a point -- but difficult new owners
  • SDL Tridion: Getting more kaleidoscopic with each new version
  • Sitecore: Uptown ambitions on a midtown base
  • Joomla!: Midtown ambitions on a downtown base
  • Hannon Hill: Finding a niche in academia
  • TerminalFour: Ditto

If your organization subscribes to our Web CMS stream, you can access the updated evaluation chapters and comparison matrices here.

Alternatively, you can always obtain a sample excerpt of any of our evaluation reports.

    Excerpt from the Joomla! Evaluation

    Web Content Management Report looks at... Upgrading Joomla!

    "As Joomla! continues to become a more capable tool with major areas of functionality that were previously missing, do not assume that upgrades will be easy. Previously, almost all extensions, templates, and third-party applications developed for one version could run on the other, but this is not the case, any more. Hence, we would caution you..."
    (p. 816)

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