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Added By Apoorv Durga on 8-Feb-2012
The open source eXo portal platform released their latest version 3.5 last week. eXo platform is a "portal-like" offering that we cover in our Portals and Content Integration report. It's based on the GateIn open source portal container that eXo co-developed with Red Hat JBoss. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-Feb-2012
Last week open source document management vendor Alfresco released Version 4 of its (commercially-supported) enterprise edition package. As we've come to expect from Alfresco, it's long on buzzwords and interesting new directions, but a bit short on functional niceties and architectural continuity ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 6-Feb-2012
Last week, IBM acquired erstwhile partner Worklight, an Israel-based vendor.
Worklight is a platform for developing mobile applications that enables you to build ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 31-Jan-2012
You already know that marketing is evolving and becoming increasingly digitally focused. That means today's marketers must become much more proficient across various marketing technologies to be fully effective. But what should a marketer's technology toolkit contain? ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 30-Jan-2012
This week, the Joomla! community released version 2.5 of its open source CMS package. There are many new features but the key highlights of the new release are ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 23-Dec-2011
Social software vendor Jive Software recently announced a new module called Fathom for Social Media Monitoring. Fathom comes as a free add-on to an existing Jive 5 setup. It provides basic capabilities for monitoring content across Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, blogs and other sources. Fathom Pro, a paid upgrade to the free version, adds some advanced analytics and intelligence capabilities to the free module ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-Dec-2011
At such time you decide you need a mobile presence for your corporate website or for an enterprise application, you'll face some key decision points, the outcome of which will define how you execute on a mobile strategy ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 18-Nov-2011
Perceptive Software, which was acquired by Lexmark a while back, has announced a new product for Document Output Management (DOM) called ModusOne. It is a separate product that can work with or without ImageNow, Perceptive's Document Management tool that we evaluate in our Document Management Report ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 4-Nov-2011
One of the arguments against building downloadable, native apps for mobile devices -- as opposed to browser-based web apps -- is that you sacrifice portability. Since you use platform-specific APIs, the argument goes, you will need to develop your app separately for each of the platforms you want to support. However, this argument is starting to get diluted, as emerging approaches can get the best of both worlds ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-Oct-2011
Once you decide to mobile-enable your enterprise information systems, the key question you need to address is whether to provide mobile access via Mobile Web (browser-based interfaces) or by offering downloadable applications ("apps").
This is a longstanding debate and proponents of both approaches will point to numerous benefits ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 3-Oct-2011
In most enterprises, content resides in disparate, heterogeneous systems, including (but not limited to) content management systems. Those who have invested in portal-type technologies have a reasonable expectation that this technology can integrate the content consumption experience, exposing content and related data from multiple repositories ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 25-Sep-2011
Last week, we released Version 9 of our Portals and Content Integration Report.
We have made many updates to the existing vendor reviews. Most enterprise portal vendors have released minor or major updates to their tools and so we have refreshed our evaluations to reflect those changes.
Besides individual vendor evaluations, the other key updates are ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 22-Aug-2011
Vendors are increasingly using more abstract labels to describe their products. Doubtless all these vendors employ well-staffed marketing departments who spend a lot of time working up this sort of nomenclature ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 19-Aug-2011
When a vendor acquires another, there is always some amount of uncertainty since employees as well as customers become anxious about the platform's future. In the last few months, we have seen many acquisitions in the marketplaces we cover. Among the major ones ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-Aug-2011
Portal tools have a reputation for being complex and heavy-weight. But do they have a role to play in today's enterprise? ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-Jul-2011
Many web publishers have been trying to work out how best to make use of social channels such as Facebook and Twitter. It's only recently that some decent integration methods and clarity on what works have started to emerge. Now comes Google with its own social network Google+. While most people are trying to figure out how it competes with Facebook, it has also added an additional channel for web publishers ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-Jul-2011
Some enterprises do indeed want to apply retention policies to employee tweets. EntropySoft, a content integration and migration vendor, has released a new connector for Twitter. EntropySoft already has a set of connectors that get OEM'ed into various packaged content and document management systems, many of which we cover in our evaluation reports ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 11-Jul-2011
Sitecore has acquired Pectora, an erstwhile partner that has solutions for print publishing. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-Jul-2011
Content Acquisition (or Ingestion) is an important step in many business processes. A form is a common way to acquire content or information for these business processes. Forms are everywhere - you fill up a form to buy an insurance policy, apply for a visa or request a new home loan. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 4-Jul-2011
This week, we release version 4.0 of our Search Report. This is a major update and refreshes many sections of the report. In particular, the following were the major objectives and resulting changes ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 21-Jun-2011
Oracle today announced its acquisition of FatWire. With this, I'm officially giving up counting how many "Portal-type" offerings Oracle now owns. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 17-Jun-2011
Well, that's what some of the hype in the market would have you believe. Let's look at what's driving this. The last decade has seen continuous improvements to search technology. At least in theory, today's search engines can crawl more complex repositories, can handle many more documents, and run faster and more efficiently. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 30-May-2011
The software engineering community has spawned many different methods to estimate levels of effort for implementing projects. You could debate the validity or accuracy yielded by these projection methods, but the fact remains that they're widely employed. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 5-May-2011
In any content management system -- web content management (WCM), document management (DM) or digital asset management (DAM) -- how content gets persisted is an important aspect of the overall content lifecycle ... Continue Reading
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