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Added By Jarrod Gingras on 6-Dec-2011
It's that time of year for our team of Real Story Group analysts to reveal our 2012 predictions, where we try to predict what the future holds in the technology world ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 17-Nov-2011
OK, I'll admit it. One of my guilty pleasures in recent years has been the American television show, Storage Wars ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 14-Oct-2011
Not long ago, many were scoffing at Box as being just another California start-up foolishly comparing themselves to the SharePoint behemoth. ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 12-Oct-2011
On the heels of the Microsoft event, the timing of the SharePoint Symposium being held in Washington DC in just three weeks (November 2-3, 2011) could not be better. ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 29-Jun-2011
Benchmarking anything is challenging, but benchmarking your intranet is really hard. It's likely just not practical for you to conduct multiple site visits to other organizations, and you can only go to so many conferences where other enterprises share their successes and challenges. Luckily, intranet managers have another option ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 23-May-2011
In this era of many enterprises moving content to the cloud, it is easy to get caught up in the potential benefits and rush to get started without properly protecting yourself ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 27-Apr-2011
With seemingly everyone attached to a mobile device these days, you'd think delivering an optimal experience would be old hat by now for Web Content Management products. You'd be wrong ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 14-Mar-2011
For most enterprises, selecting technology can be like picking a winner of the NCAA basketball tournament ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 7-Mar-2011
Due to popular demand, I'm happy to announce that "Content Therapy" is back at the info360 Conference in Washington DC ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 8-Feb-2011
With the addition of our newest analyst, Irina, it seems like a good time to remind you where you can keep tabs on the latest research from the Real Story Group. We know that you consume information in a variety of ways, so we’ll try to accommodate your preferences ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 7-Feb-2011
If you agree with the adage that enterprises need a new Web CMS every three years, then it's easy to assume that in the year 2011, most organizations would be working on their third or fourth Web CMS implementation. The real story is that some of the largest enterprises -- including some of the biggest names in healthcare, retail, and banking -- are still trying to move to their first real CMS ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 11-Jan-2011
Last week we released our 2011 Document Management (ECM) Market Analysis which includes the 2011 Document Management Cross-Check. Next week, my colleague Alan Pelz-Sharpe, will shares the latest findings on the Document & Records Management market in a free webinar ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 21-Dec-2010
Every product and technology solution provider inherently brings some amount of risk. When it comes to technology, change is inevitable and often a good thing, but also potentially a strong indicator of risk for new buyers of technology. For example ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 20-Dec-2010
When it comes to selecting a content management system, does a vendor's industry-specific experience matter? ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 7-Dec-2010
When it comes to selecting a content management system, the most "important" stakeholders are not the people at the top of the org charts or the ones with the biggest checkbooks. ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 6-Dec-2010
One question I got over and over again from folks learning about us for the first time was, "where do you get all of the information about the vendors and products that makes it into your research reports and advisory papers?" ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 1-Dec-2010
As we approach the end of 2010, it's time for our team of Real Story Group analysts to reveal our 2011 predictions, where we make our best guesses as to what the Content Technology industry will hold for you in the new year ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 30-Nov-2010
At the risk of being labeled a Grinch during this holiday season, I feel the need to inject a dose of reality into a conversation that I see gathering steam ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 28-Jun-2010
The community commons ECM Maturity Model (www.ECM3.org) progressed to v2.0 last week ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 10-May-2010
This year, CM Pros, the international content management community of practice, is doing a quantitative survey to try to capture the pulse of the community. ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 7-Apr-2010
This session will be a fast-paced debate exploring a variety of controversial ECM-related issues and trends ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 1-Apr-2010
For the last several years, I've had the honor of hosting our Stump the Consultant panel at the info360: AIIM Expo ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 31-Mar-2010
As we continue to grow globally, we're looking for a motivated account exec in the UK or Europe ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 31-Mar-2010
Theresa Regli recently recorded this video using one of her favorite analogies: selecting the right enterprise software is a lot like selecting the right wine to have with dinner ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 25-Mar-2010
Last month marked the one-year anniversary of the open source ECM Maturity model, "ECM3" ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 19-Mar-2010
There are many ways to measure success of an information management project. Project leaders typically want to "help" your colleagues, but how do they know they're successful? ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 22-Feb-2010
Iron Mountain the records management services giant today announced that it was buying e-mail archiving vendor Mimosa. Mimosa is certainly one of the more ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 28-Jan-2010
Yesterday we launched our most recent Enterprise Portals Research. This report critically evaluates 13 portal vendors and products, which we break up into 2 categories: ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 15-Dec-2009
With only a few weeks left in 2009, it's time for our team of CMS Watch analysts to reveal our 2010 predictions, where we make our best guesses as to what the Content Technology industry will hold for you in the new year ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 7-Dec-2009
While the ECM mid market is often ignored, we've noticed a recent vibrancy particularly among document management solutions in this tier. We've created a SlideShare presentation ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 13-Nov-2009
Last week I attended the J. Boye Aarhus 2009 conference in Aarhus Denmark. For me, the highlight of the event was the opportunity to kick off the Web Content Management track by serving on a panel with Janus Boye (a.k.a., @janusboye) and LBi's Jon Marks (a.k.a., @mcboof). The theme of this panel was ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 8-Oct-2009
We are rapidly approaching the fall conference season, and this year I am particularly excited about returning to beautiful Aarhus, Denmark ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 21-Sep-2009
Those of you in the content management world undoubtedly know about AIIM -- the non-profit organization with a long history of providing education and other resources to help you address the challenges of managing enterprise content. AIIM is currently in the process of electing a new board member to join their current board ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 2-Sep-2009
Yesterday, EMC announced the acquisition of e-discovery vendor Kazeon ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 26-Aug-2009
Capture Specialist vendors play in a very specific part of the ECM spectrum ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 24-Aug-2009
The "places" where we work have changed and continue to change. To those of you reading this blog entry on your iPhone, Nokia E-Series or Blackberry device ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 17-Jun-2009
Another reason for portals' resurgence in popularity is the current ubiquity of portals outside of the enterprise ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 15-Jun-2009
While we're not exactly saying that "Enterprise Portals are the new black," ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 25-May-2009
Earlier this week, I blogged about ECM and Open Source -- and the different landscapes buyers will encounter in the Enterprise Content Management marketplace versus the Web Content Management marketplace. I think there's a similar paradigm when it comes to SaaS ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 20-May-2009
We're often asked why there are so few ECM open source options, when at the same time the Web CMS marketplace supports so many open source alternatives? ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 20-Mar-2009
Do you think your content technology project challenges are unique? ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 6-Mar-2009
We've put together a schedule (pdf) of when we'll be presenting and when we'll be available for office hours at Booth #320 ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 5-Mar-2009
Based on feedback from you, we've modified our subscription options a bit ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 5-Mar-2009
The AIIM International Expo and Conference in Philadelphia, PA is rapidly approaching. One session that I am particularly excited about is ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 2-Mar-2009
At last week's Henry Stewart Briefing on Digital Asset Management last week in Toronto, there was an prevailing theme ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 23-Feb-2009
Later this week in Toronto and next month in Dallas, I'll be sharing some of our latest research from ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 9-Feb-2009
As an obsessive fan of baseball's Boston Red Sox, I am one of the last people to defend the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez. As an analyst of content management technology and practices ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 25-Nov-2008
It has become fashionable lately to declare that search is dead ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 20-Nov-2008
Recently, I've heard several people make the statement that "law firms grow most during tough economic times" ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 19-Aug-2008
A few weeks ago, I questioned whether the SaaS Web CMS vendor Marqui was "going belly up"... ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 29-Jul-2008
We're excited to introduce a new offering - Online Education - for those interested in learning the fundamentals of content technologies. Today we debut our WCM course ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 11-Jul-2008
Recently, I was alerted to TechVibes' news that Marqui was in receivership... ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 23-Jun-2008
Here are some wrap-up thoughts from a couple of days at the Web Content 2008 conference in Chicago last week. I thought there was a fascinating dichotomy between days 1 and 2 of the conference ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 9-Jun-2008
As industry analysts, we are constantly traveling to various conferences to teach and learn from others. In addition to meeting potential new readers, one of the real benefits of attendance ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 12-May-2008
Over the last few years, many people (including us) have asked whether or not Facebook can be used as a enterprise intranet. Many have dismissed this notion ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 22-Apr-2008
"Recycling" information (a.k.a., "content reuse") is a critical goal for most content management systems. On this Earth Day 2008, I thought it appropriate to share another green movement that's emerging in the content management industry ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 15-Apr-2008
Ted Leonsis, the former AOL executive and current owner of the NHL's Washington Capitals, recently posted a blog entry comparing Facebook's critical development crossroads to that of AOL. He challenges Facebook to ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 31-Mar-2008
I received an e-mail this weekend from a very confused researcher of Web Content Management systems. The first result they found in their search results was this paid advertisement from Clickability... ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 3-Mar-2008
Though we are not psychiatrists, as technology evaluators covering various content technologies, we spend many hours listening to some sad stories of software implementations gone wrong... ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 2-Mar-2008
Actually, "BPM" stands for Business Process Management,, although some implementations can become quite monstrous indeed ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 5-Feb-2008
On the heels of Clickability's announcement yesterday that it has received a second round of VC funding, the other pure-play SaaS vendor we cover in the 2008 Web Content Management Report, CrownPeak, is making some news of its own. Today the company announced a new product... ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 4-Feb-2008
In a recent article and blog entry, my colleague Tony talked about both the popularity of Software as a Service or hosted model and some of the potential dangers. In our 2008 Web Content Management Report we cover two pure-play SaaS vendors, Clickability and CrownPeak. Both are venture-backed, both have shown consistent growth recently, and today Clickability announced that it has received a second round of funding of $8 million, bringing its total outside funding to $15.3 million. ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 4-Dec-2007
Today we released the ECM Suites Report 2008, evaluating 32 Enterprise Content Management vendors. ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 14-Nov-2007
We have just a few spots remaining for a class I'll be teaching on Information Organization and Access in New York from December 10-13, 2007 ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 12-Nov-2007
This past week at the Enterprise Search Summit in San Jose, CA, I had a chance to meet up with some representatives of Mondosoft. In the wake of their bankruptcy announcement and SurfRay gobbling up the pieces, they appear to have emerged relatively unscathed under new Surfray ownership. ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 26-Oct-2007
As Phil Kemelor points out, the VisualSciences sale to Omniture should cause customers to ready themselves for a bumpy ride. Customers of VisualSciences' web content management service, Publish, and their hosted search service, Search, will continue to endure the uncertainty ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 14-Jun-2007
Content Management Professionals has announced the Call for Participation for its Fall 2007 Summit that will be held on November 26, 2007 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. This year's topic is Web Content Management. ... Continue Reading
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