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Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Feb-2012
The Web Content & Experience Management marketplace remains highly fragmented, although it has seen more M&A activity in the past year. Given the plethora of vendor choices, prospective WCXM customers should take a multidimensional approach to identify the best fit for their individual situation ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Feb-2012
In conversations with many of our subscribers on their SharePoint and enterprise collaboration efforts, a common theme keeps recurring: that getting SharePoint up and running is just the beginning of a long and sometimes quite expensive journey ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Feb-2012
Late last year we marked our tenth year in business, which seemed like a good time to reflect on what has changed across the landscape of content, web, and collaboration technologies -- and what has not ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Jan-2012
We've just updated our longstanding "subway map" for 2012.
Biggest changes have come around acquisitions (e.g., HP), and ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 25-Jan-2012
Jive Software has long been the darling of the Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software space. Yes, they have decent (though not spectacular) technology, but the company has always been savvier about "message." Jive talked social networking as an alternative to SharePoint 2007 when that was hot, then pivoted to more of a collaboration message as customers got more serious, then joined the cloud/API/ecosystem bandwagons at the right time, and so on ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Jan-2012
We've just released a major update (Version 4.0) to our Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Report, which evaluates nineteen Enterprise 2.0 vendors. Our subscribers will see several new vendors under review as well as an overhauled set of evaluation criteria ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Jan-2012
Not surprisingly, most architects have taken an intense interest in cloud-based computing, across both its public and private (and hybrid) incarnations. These same architects typically also participate in software selection decisions. Then here's what happens: architects immersed in planning cloud-based futures often get surprised to discover how poorly traditional software vendors fit into that world ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Dec-2011
A skilled technology industry analyst is a rare bird: loves figuring out the innards of the tools, writes with depth and clarity, but can communicate effectively with business and IT leaders alike and coach them to make good decisions. We try to set a pretty high bar above and beyond that. If you've seen our work and think you'd be a good fit for a very demanding job, check out our ongoing analyst position openings ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Dec-2011
SharePoint licensees seeking to deliver on the promise of social networking and more advanced collaboration applications must choose among three alternative approaches to close the gap ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Dec-2011
Like all analyst firms, every year-end we make predictions. I think we're fairly unique, though, in going back to see how our earlier predictions fared. Let's see whether our predictions for 2011 actually panned out. These were the twelve predictions we made in December, 2010 ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Nov-2011
We've just released a minor update to our Web CMS Report, which evaluates 42 major products from around the globe. Version 20.3 includes updated reviews of ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Nov-2011
Intranets are dead. Long live the Digital Workplace!
OK, this is partly an argument about labels, but labels matter. What most employees understand as their "intranet" -- updates from corporate communications, some HR forms, and a mountain of outdated docs -- is increasingly irrelevant ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Oct-2011
This question is popping up pretty frequently among our advisory subscribers. It's a subtle question in some ways, but also laden with great import for both intranet/collaboration managers and public website marketers ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Oct-2011
I'm delighted to announce that we've added a new technology analyst, Kashyap Kompella, to our team. Kashyap has deep experience in many of the technologies we cover, and brings a broad mix of industry, architectural, and usability perspectives ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Oct-2011
Last week at OracleWorld the company announced that it was renaming and re-focusing its WebCenter "Connect" offering to "Oracle Social Network." A new emphasis on social networking services and middleware integration could prove promising, but real business value today comes from effective collaboration efforts that deliver quick business benefits out of the box, with a social kicker downstream. Oracle is a bit late to this party ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Aug-2011
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 ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Aug-2011
Earlier this summer we held a mini-summit of some RSG analysts and captured each others' thoughts in a series of short videos. In this one I make three broad technology predictions: ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Aug-2011
Most of the Web Content Management vendors we evaluate claim to have some sort a cloud option.
For many of these vendors, this boils down to one of two things: ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Jul-2011
We're hiring. Would you like to explore joining our top-notch team of analysts? Read the full position details here ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Jun-2011
Like old soldiers, sometimes old Web CMS tools don't die outright....they just fade away. Case in point: the product formerly known as RedDot, which became OpenText Web Solutions, but is now re-branded "OpenText Web Site Management." RedDot boasts a long and storied past. However, it started falling behind its competitors even before ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 29-Jun-2011
By now you know that Microsoft SharePoint has a 3-year development cycle. Three years is not a long time for highly process-oriented functionality, like many types of document management applications. However, a long development cycle is a significant shortcoming in areas like Collaboration/Social and Web Content Management, where Redmond's circa-2009 codebase feels increasingly out of step ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Jun-2011
There's a longstanding question about how effectively Big Blue can evolve Connections ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Jun-2011
Last week we released a significant update to our comparative Web Content Management vendor reviews. There's a lot to conclude here about what's going on in the marketplace, but for now, I'll just summarize some of the new info from our revised evaluations ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Jun-2011
There's widely-held opinion that all information should be open and free. We could debate that, but hopefully everyone can concur that analysis and critical judgement are value-adds on top of basic information. This value-add often stems from long historical perspective about a vendor, tool, technology segment, and methodologies. So the question becomes: how to underwrite the production of that value-add? ... Continue Reading
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