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Atex? Who?

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Sep-2010

A couple of people pinged me last week, basically asking, "who are these Atex people?" (The company's name got a bit elevated when they made it onto Gartner's recent Magic Quadrant analysis for web content management.) ... Continue Reading

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Sitecore 6.3 is more Major than Minor

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Aug-2010

Danish CMS vendor Sitecore released their new version 6.3 last month. For me, the immediate question always is: how much has changed? It's only a dot release, so it shouldn't be anything major, right? Well ... Continue Reading

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Vendor Landscapes and Horse Races

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Aug-2010

There's an odd fascination with equestrianism in technology. Vendor landscapes are often described as horse races; there's leaders and laggards, winners and losers. That's great for gamblers, investors, and jockeys. But it's not very useful ... Continue Reading

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What Exactly is IDOL, Anyway?

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Aug-2010

There's a lot of mysticism shrouding Autonomy's mega-search offering, "IDOL." Not in the least bit because every piece of software that is acquired by the vendor is either "plugged into," "powered by," or "integrated with" IDOL. Supposedly, ... Continue Reading

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SharePoint's FAST 2010 is not as cheap as you might think

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Aug-2010

However, make no mistake: FAST may be a lot less expensive, but it's certainly not going to come cheap. Not in the least bit because implementing it right will still be an expert's job. ... Continue Reading

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CMS Vendor EPiServer Not Going Public

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 12-Aug-2010

This year's big plan for Swedish Web CMS vendor EPiServer was to go public on July 30th. In the end, though, that didn't quite work out: EPi withdrew at the last minute ... Continue Reading

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CoreMedia integrates with SAP NetWeaver Portal

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 15-Jul-2010

If you're running a SAP NetWeaver Portal -- presumably since you've bought into SAPs infrastructure -- you may have discovered it's not the most ideal of platforms to actually publish content on ... Continue Reading

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Do you need a simple or a complex CMS?

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 7-Jul-2010

I sometimes warn that a vendor's content management system is well suited to "simple" scenarios, but not necessarily a good fit for "more complex" cases. That's a bit problematic: ... Continue Reading

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SDL acquires XML editor Xopus

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 6-Jul-2010

After a long spending spree -- pretty much on anything XML -- SDL has now acquired small Dutch vendor Xopus ... Continue Reading

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WordPress 3.0 released: Bzzzzz.

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Jul-2010

Well, it was to be expected: after a long wait, WordPress 3.0 got released just when I was on a short holiday. (WordPress admins shouldn't be allowed to take holidays for that exact reason.) ... Continue Reading

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Decoding Content Management jargon

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 1-Jul-2010

Now that we've built content management to reach into the clouds, have we been punished by a confusion of tongues? Sure, there are tangible differences between, say, a page-based or a component-based system. And some labels are rooted in their underlying technology. Still, there's a couple of archetypes we could at least attempt to label similarly ... Continue Reading

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Facebook Likes...to take your web content

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Jun-2010

You may have noticed Facebook "Like" buttons spring up everywhere on the web the past few months ... Continue Reading

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Exalead acquired by Dassault Systemes

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 9-Jun-2010

Dassault Systèmes, a major product lifecycle management (PLM) vendor, has announced the acquisition of enterprise search vendor Exalead. Which of course leads to the two usual questions with any acquisition ... Continue Reading

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Eyjafjallajokull's Cloud hanging over the Web

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Apr-2010

I spent several days anxiously keeping track of the latest updates on the cloud hanging over Europe. It gave me plenty of time to ponder just how important on-line communications play a role in this nowadays. ... Continue Reading

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The 90-9-1 Rule, Forums, and Social Media

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 20-Apr-2010

You may have heard of the 90/9/1 rule of social engagement: in essence, the rule posits that in a community, 90% of the people are passive readers; 9% are active participants; and 1% account for creating the majority of content ... Continue Reading

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Jive and Drupal: Don't take their word for it

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 16-Apr-2010

This is just a little tiff between vendors, so why should you care? Well, both are making it abundantly clear that a vendor is not a neutral source of information ... Continue Reading

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Exalead keeps tabs on Sarkozy

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 14-Apr-2010

Politics aside, I've always enjoyed watching the occasional French president's speech on television. Where U.S. presidents act, well, presidential, and the Queen will be regal, a French head of state is much more expansive. And nowadays, we can also compare another style: on-line presence ... Continue Reading

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Facebook competing around the globe -- but not always winning

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Mar-2010

If you live in North America, it's easy to forget that Facebook's global competition may not be MySpace or LinkedIn. Instead, it's a plethora of local competitors. For example, Hyves, here in The Netherlands, has some 7.6m users ... Continue Reading

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Google, DocVerse, Jive, and vendor-switching in the Cloud

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Mar-2010

Google bought DocVerse two weeks ago -- but that was hardly a surprise. DocVerse allows people to collaborate on the same Office document via special plug-in. The software syncs ... Continue Reading

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Yammer's microblogging branches out

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Mar-2010

Microblogging is the quintessential "keep it simple" service.  So when a vendor adds a seemingly minor new feature, that's relatively big news ... Continue Reading

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Good times for HTML

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 15-Feb-2010

On behalf of HTML developers across the world, I would like to thank Apple and Google. Specifically, Mountain View for dropping Internet Explorer 6 support, and in its own not-so-small way helping us get rid of the untold horrors IE6 has inflicted on stylesheets for the past seven years. And Cupertino for the advancement of HTML 5 ... Continue Reading

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Search fares well in sluggish economy

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Feb-2010

At times I get the feeling the content technologies aren't affected by the economic downturn. Some of the vendors we cover have come out with early reports on their performance over 2009, and so far the news is good ... Continue Reading

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Alterian drops Immediacy

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 4-Feb-2010

Software vendor Alterian has cleared up which Web CMS software it wants to try to sell you in the future. In short, all of their alphabet soups going forward will taste like Morello ... Continue Reading

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EPiServer goes public

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 27-Jan-2010

Like nearly all its competitors, Swedish Web CMS and Social Software vendor EPiServer is doing well financially. The company reports nearly $30m in revenues over 2009 and now boasts almost 3,000 customers. So perhaps it's no surprise that last week ... Continue Reading

 

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