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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
Added By Apoorv Durga on 3-May-2011
If you ask "What is a Portal" on twitter, you will likely get numerous replies depending on tweeples' point of view. For some, their Intranet is a Portal, while for others a public search engine is their Portal, and for still some others their own website is a Portal. Instead of ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 27-Apr-2011
This week, OpenText released version 8.1 of their WCM product. It features new media management capabilities, better support for mobile devices (result of their weComm acquisition) and some other enhancements. But more importantly, they ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 18-Apr-2011
If you ever used primitive site-builder services like Geocities or Tripod, you probably remember how you could select from a set of pre-defined templates, add a guest book, and embed some dancing gifs or a free jingle, to create simple (mostly personal) web pages. Since a mobile site is the new "in thing" now, many of these services that were popular in early days are making a come back ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-Apr-2011
As always, the specific answer depends on your particular requirements. Nevertheless, based on our customer research and recent product CMS selection experience, we can generalize that SharePoint remains poorly suited for most external web publishing environments ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Mar-2011
You may hear from pundits that enterprise portal technology has become obsolete. The story line goes like this: Portal tools put heavy demand on infrastructure, are complex to implement, and can prove too inflexible for today's agile use cases. But is portal software really dying, and should you still care about it? ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 9-Mar-2011
OpenText continues its long acquisition spree. After acquiring Metastorm last month, it has now acquired UK-based weComm, a vendor in the mobility space ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 2-Mar-2011
This seems to be a season of "proposals" by open source vendors to attach pieces of their code to a larger foundation. It sounds promising, but the benefits for you the customer could remain far off ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 11-Feb-2011
Today we published our 2011 Portal and Content Migration Market Analysis. It also includes a "Cross-Check" chart that visually charts risks and opportunities ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 9-Feb-2011
Unlike most acquisitions in the Content Technology Marketplaces that we cover, this one actually seems like one in which there is not much overlap between two vendors' offerings. Antenna Software, a provider of mobile applications mainly for enterprises, acquired Volantis Systems, a company focused on delivering content to mobile browsers, concentrated more on the consumer Internet ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 8-Feb-2011
Google demonstrated Android 3.0 -- a.k.a., Honeycomb -- last week. Honeycomb is a version of their mobile operating system optimized for tablets. It works within a bigger form factor, and also packs in much more power to be able to run videos, games, and other applications better. But that's not the point of this post ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-Feb-2011
We have released an update to our Portals and Content Integration Report. In this release, we've updated the following evaluations ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 17-Jan-2011
An omnibus platform like SharePoint presents two challenges to Microsoft in the web publishing arena:
Neither challenge is prohibitive, but both are potentially problematic ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-Jan-2011
The tech blogosphere has been debating the apparent demise of the Java Content Repository (JCR) spec, especially after news that the open source Document Management firm Nuxeo dropped support for the standard. JCR's popularity and future are always debatable. However, it should focus you the customer on an important topic: what happens when a standard dies? ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 5-Jan-2011
Business users want easy access to content and don't tend to care where it gets stored. However, the mechanics of storage have always been an important consideration for IT and System Admin folks ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 22-Dec-2010
Lassi is a yogurt drink popular in India, but you wouldn't usually employ a washing machine to make it. Unless, of course your requirements are similar to those in this HSBC Ad. We call such differentiating requirements "scenarios." Think of scenarios as ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 15-Dec-2010
Of late, many WCM as well as Portal vendors are touting their capabilities for more closely aligning content management and presentation management. Frankly, I wonder what took them so long. After all, what good is content if it cannot be delivered and consumed? In my opinion ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-Dec-2010
When you think of a smart phone or when someone tells you about multi-channel delivery, chances are that you are visualizing a cell phone, a PDA, or at the maximum, a tablet such as an iPad or Samsung's Tab ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 6-Dec-2010
Offshoring, along with its many variants like rightshoring and nearshoring is a heavily debated topic. But like everything else, there are advantages as well as challenges that need to be addressed if you have to make it successful. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 19-Nov-2010
Content integration vendor Kapow made a couple of announcements this week, mostly related to re-branding and enhancements to their data integration platform. The key aspects of these announcements are ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 12-Nov-2010
A web portal's true potential lies in its ability to access multiple applications across an enterprise backbone, as well as applications residing on the public web. Gadgets have emerged as a lightweight alternative to build portal-like applications for the enterprise ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 8-Nov-2010
Last week, Oracle announced its acquisition of Art Technology Group (ATG) for $ 1 Billion. At this price, it might appear smaller than other, better-known acquisitions such as those of Sun Microsystems ($ 7.4 B), BEA Systems ($ 8.5 B), and PeopleSoft ($ 10.5 B in 2004), yet it's an important acquisition, nevertheless ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 21-Oct-2010
I'm quite happy to be returning to Aarhus, Denmark to attend the JBoye conference from 2-4 November, 2010. This is one conference where you get to not only learn and interact with others, but also get to network and socialize in a very informal environment ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-Oct-2010
Alfresco recently released a new community version 3.4 of its Content Management System. The enterprise version of this will be released later this year. The latest version has some new features as well as enhancements such as a sample application called Web Quick Start, DocLib portlets, Distributed Repository Replication, Enhancements to Alfresco Web Editor (AWE) and Share. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 11-Oct-2010
The second half of this year has seen a lot of activity in the Portals & Content Integration marketplace and several vendors have released updates and in some cases completely new offerings of their products. Last week, we published an update to our Portals evaluation research reflecting some of these upgrades ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 5-Oct-2010
In the latest 11g release of their ECM suite, Oracle has made some key changes that they claim will make the platform more open and less proprietary. But there's a catch. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 27-Sep-2010
It seems every new technology gets labeled "social," and every vendor wants to be "global", "leader", "first," or some combination of these. So it's important to get the real story and follow a structured approach to product selection. With this in mind ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 24-Sep-2010
Competitors and Partners, eXo and JBoss have both announced their new Portal offerings based on their collaborative project GateIn. While JBoss had released Enterprise Portal Platform (EPP 5) a while back, eXo released eXo Platform 3.0 this week ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 21-Sep-2010
Rather quietly, IBM has replaced the search index within their OmniFind Enterprise Edition. The latest release of this search engine, version 9.1 supports new search collections that are based on Lucene ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-Sep-2010
Dynamic Publishing Systems manage the assembly of reusable components for publishing, along with the delivery of aggregated content to multiple personalized channels. Some examples of Dynamic Publishing are: ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 9-Sep-2010
We have often talked of content migration before, but we have now started to content migration technology and practices more formally and will be expanding our coverage to include short reviews of key content migration vendors in the near future ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 30-Aug-2010
Last week, I attended two conferences in Delhi. Coincidentally, both of them were on similar topics. The first one, organized by Indian trade body, NASSCOM was about mobile Internet and appstores, while the second one was about mobile applications (although it ended up as a conference for sales pitches by device vendors) ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 17-Aug-2010
You should be forewarned that in their quest for improving presentation management, vendors are soft-pedaling many core CMS concepts which haven't really seen a lot of innovation in recent times, and this, too, could impact your website visitor experience. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 11-Aug-2010
In a new Advisory Briefing for our SharePoint and ECM subscribers, we evaluate how the CMIS connector targets different use cases where SharePoint needs to inter-operate or co-exist with other applications. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Jul-2010
Adobe Systems today announced their intent to acquire Day Software. We've seen Adobe featuring in many Content Management RFPs and although they had some of the necessary pieces including Adobe Contribute and LiveCycle, they were never taken seriously as a Content Management player. An OEM deal with Alfresco a few years back though well intentioned didn't help much but this announcement will surely change the situation dramatically. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 19-Jul-2010
JackBe, one of the Mashup vendors we cover in our Portals and Content Integration Research, announced version 3.0 of their Mashup product Presto. The new version features enhancements ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Jun-2010
Although released a couple of weeks back, Red Hat made a formal announcement of the release of their new JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform (EPP 5) on Thursday at the Red Hat summit in Boston. As we have mentioned before, this release is a completely re-architected platform built on GateIn, the portal they jointly developed with eXo. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 22-Jun-2010
We've just released an update to our Portals evaluation research. Along with updates to the individual portal vendor evaluations, we have expanded the scope of our research to include a new category of related solutions that enable you to integrate and aggregate content from multiple sources ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-Jun-2010
One of our predictions for this year was about the rise of mobile as a delivery channel -- much more closely integrated with your content technologies. Most vendors provide some sort of mechanism for delivering content to mobile channels ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 2-Jun-2010
When I talk to people about Mashups, I find many of them are really thinking of iGoogle-type, dashboard-style applications, assembled using Gadgets and Widgets ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 19-May-2010
More than two years after it's last major version was released, the Web CMS project Joomla! has announced the beta version of its next major release (1.6). For an open source project, that's a lot of time between two versions. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-May-2010
Alan and I wrote this piece (requires free registration) for CFO Connect, a thought-leadership magazine for CFOs and other senior finance professionals operating in India. The idea was to introduce people to Compliance and how ECM's strong technology platform can help companies meet their compliance needs. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-May-2010
I was reading the excellent Web Site Migration Handbook by our good friend and colleague David Hobbs -- and a quick Twitter exchange with him got me thinking about the importance of testing and QA in migration ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Apr-2010
They say nothing unites us Indians more than Cricket. Mash that up with Bollywood, big money, politics, as well as sleaze, and you get the multi-billion dollar Indian Premier League (IPL) ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 27-Apr-2010
FatWire recently announced two new products -- Gadget Server and Community Server -- both aimed at website visitors ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 16-Apr-2010
I get an uneasy feeling when someone tells me their product is so simple that business users can create new applications without writing any code. This is especially true of products that offer some kind of a gadget and/or mashup functionality ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 9-Apr-2010
Enterprise Mashups are becoming popular as a way to create new, dashboard style applications from existing, often disparate applications and data sources. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 31-Mar-2010
It's been a year now since we launched our ECM Maturity Model under Creative Commons, and it seems to have proven comprehensive as well as extensible for different groups adapting it for their specific environments ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 15-Mar-2010
Developers know that Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) go a long way in improving productivity and shortening time to market. Some vendors in the marketplaces we cover ship with their own proprietary IDEs, while many others use a plugin to (or otherwise extend) the popular Eclipse or Visual Studio IDEs ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 19-Feb-2010
So my colleague Kas was not very off track when he speculated something's cooking between EMC and FatWire. They announced a strategic partnership.that includes a minority stake for EMC in FatWire and ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 17-Feb-2010
An open source implementation of the new Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS) was released last week called "xCMIS." Developed by the folks at eXo Platform ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 4-Feb-2010
Enterprises have traditionally used portal technology to aggregate content and functionality from different applications. In that sense, portals have typically been consumers of services ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 2-Feb-2010
Last week we released some significant updates to our Enterprise Portals Research. The latest research reflects significant changes among new versions of several portal platforms, as well as additional details for all the products we cover ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Jan-2010
While Steve Jobs was introducing Apple's iPad, Oracle was explaining its own approach to hybrid hardware/software offerings. Oracle yesterday announced that it has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 8-Jan-2010
GateIn -- the collaborative Portal project from Red Hat JBoss and eXo -- has been making decent progress. A beta 4 was released recently the current timeline proposes final release in March, 2010 ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-Nov-2009
Many Web CMS products tout "in-context," wiki-like content editing as an important feature or enhancement. In-context means letting contributors create or edit content from within the context of the site, without actually having to retrieve a content item from the back-end and filling in long forms ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-Nov-2009
The much-awaited version 7 of Interwoven TeamSite finally seems to have been released by Autonomy. While we will cover the details shortly for our Web Content Management subscribers, the key changes come in a new ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 19-Oct-2009
This is an important week for Microsoft. In the face of a major offensive from Google’s “Gone Google” campaign, they launch Windows 7 and also reveal some interesting developments at the SharePoint conference in Vegas. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 22-Jul-2008
Via numerous acquisitions, Oracle has built up a formidable collection of products that they sell for Portals, Content Management, Web 2.0, and other content technologies ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-May-2008
The open source package Drupal is one of the few social publishing platforms built on top of a longstanding Web CM (WCM) system ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-May-2007
As Web CMS Report readers know, Joomla!'s roadmap for future versions is quite ambitious. The project has indeed incorporated many new features in the recently released Joomla! 1.5 Beta-2, called "The Red Barchetta." ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 15-Jan-2007
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Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-Dec-2006
IBM and Yahoo have announced a free enterprise search software. Called IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition, it neither uses IBM's nor Yahoo's technology for underlying search but instead runs on ... Continue Reading
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