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Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Jul-2011
With the amount of exposure for SEO nowadays, a whole industry has sprung up around it. And CMS vendors have been quick to jump on the bandwagon, offering a myriad of SEO "features," "modules," "plugins," and "wizards." From what we can see, customers are finding it increasingly hard to distinguish sense from nonsense ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Jun-2011
Rules of thumb can be dangerous -- because of the inherent broad generalizations. But they can also be quite useful, especially if they highlight something that may be unpleasant to hear, but shouldn't be ignored.One such truths is that in general, your implementation cost for an enterprise implementation will come to 7 to 8 times that of initial licensing ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Jun-2011
Google has announced that for Google Apps, it's dropping support of older browsers. Only the current and previous versions of IE, Firefox, Safari, and of course Chrome will be supported. After August 1st, Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 3 and older versions will be the first to be dropped. Clearly, this is going to put some customer IT departments in a bit of a pickle ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 21-Jun-2011
We've said this before on this blog, in various ways. But sometimes, the simple analogies seem to work the best: if you think of SharePoint, think of it as a Swiss Army Knife. That sounds great, doesn't it? It's like the multi-tool of content technologies. Imagine a major vendor and integrators turning up at dinner to explain how great their Swiss Army Knife is for any purpose, and yes, it's excellent to carve your food with, too. Why go with just a knife, if you can have a whole range of additional functionality in one system? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-May-2011
Perhaps you're thinking about adding some "2.0" to your site or intranet, to obtain that great user generated content (UGC) -- but where do you start? You start with commenting, of course ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 25-Apr-2011
Intranets guru James Robertson (of StepTwo) just reminded me of the Intranet Innovation Awards 2011, now in it's fifth year. It's one of the few ways to learn of great intranets, because after all, these are usually hidden behind the firewall ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Apr-2011
MarkLogic is a fairly unique platform that can provide impressive infrastructural services for XML storage and processing. It's also very good at searching its own repository. So why don't we review MarkLogic in our Search & Information Access research? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 11-Apr-2011
As I've noted on this blog many times before, a lot of Google Search Appliance's "features" are actually outside-of-the-box, rather than out-of-the-box. That can present an unpleasant surprise to many Google customers. But ironically, it's also a great advantage to anyone who wants to use ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Feb-2011
I've been working with web content management systems for almost fifteen years now. And exasperatingly, I still see the same project problems recur constantly ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 16-Feb-2011
One of the questions I hear time and again is: "We're running SharePoint. Should we get a Google Appliance for search?" This was the case with SharePoint 2007, and it hasn't changed with 2010 ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Jan-2011
Some of our subscriber inquiries have to do with accelerating their website and CMS deployment times. Having been burnt by waterfall-oriented development methodologies in the past, enterprises are now looking to "agile" development for answers. But already, many are becoming equally disillusioned with agile. Is it really just as problematic as waterfall? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 12-Jan-2011
Nearly all the vendors we cover have become quite good at marketing themselves. But if you dig deeper, you'll find many differences have gotten wallpapered over. The challenging bit for us is trying to explain what lies underneath. Take Alterian, and its Alterian Content Manager product ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 5-Jan-2011
After a long wait, extended several times, Drupal 7 was released today. So what is it like, and should you rush over to download and install it right away? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Dec-2010
One question I get on a regular basis is, "so, what's the best CMS?" And I invariably reply, "it depends." There really is no best CMS; there is only the best fit for you, in your scenarios ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Dec-2010
We always follow the communities around specific products quite closely. Whether an open source or commercial closed source system, product communities can give us great input on the real story. But one thing to remember is that the most active and enthusiastic communities are also a really biased source of information ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Nov-2010
Swedish WCM vendor EPiServer was acquired a few weeks ago -- and I've been trying to come up with something meaningful to say about it ever since ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 29-Nov-2010
Most recently, Wired Magazine managed to reach the zenith with the article "The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet." Even though that's been discussed to death on the web (dead itself), allow me to spoof their title one last time. Just to make an entirely different point: whereas the mobile web is alive and kicking -- it's becoming nearly impossible to create mobile apps. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 28-Oct-2010
I tend use cars as a metaphor to describe the differences among software products. Even in internal discussions among our team of analysts. Which is how this came up last week: I described a particular system as a Toyota compared to another vendor's Ferrari ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Oct-2010
Google is announcing a new version of the Google Search Appliance today -- version 6.8 of the company's enterprise search solution. The headline feature is "Cloud Connect" -- but that's in fact a pretty superficial addition. If you look at the technology, what's more interesting is that this release marks another small step in Google's long transition from fiction to reality ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Oct-2010
Last week, I presented at Mobile Mojo -- an event about Mobile & Social. It was an interesting gathering, with a lot of buzz. One of the highlights was certainly Peter Hinssen's excellent keynote about ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 27-Sep-2010
What, your system vendor doesn't have an app store yet? Apple has popularized the concept, and most phone platforms now have something similar: Google's Android Market and Nokia's Ovi Store come to mind. So now everyone has to have one, not just devices, but enterprise software as well ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Sep-2010
It's easy to get caught up in the announcements of new and exciting stuff -- and even easier to have forgotten about them when they quietly leave the stage. Case in point: Cuil and Clusty ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Sep-2010
On October 7th, the MobileMojo event in Utrecht (NL) will focus on mobile and social media. Those two areas touch on almost everything we cover, so I'm happy that both my colleague Theresa Regli and I will be attending ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Sep-2010
VideoEgg announced today it will acquire Six Apart (creators of Movable Type). Or, depending on how you look at it, it's a merger. VideoEgg and Six Apart will form a new company, called "SAY Media." But where does that leave Movable Type? ... Continue Reading
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