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Added By Kas Thomas on 24-Mar-2010
Whether the economy has begun to turn the corner, we don't know, but if this graph from Indeed.com is any indication, times have at least not been getting any worse for job-seekers with "content management" on their resumes ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 11-Mar-2010
Lucid Imagination, the commercial company that distributes its own certified versions of the open source Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, has raised $10 million in Series B funding from a series of venture capital firms ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 1-Mar-2010
IBM has released its IBM Security Solutions X-Force 2009 Trend and Risk Report, and the news for users of popular WCM platforms Drupal, Joomla!, TYPO3, and WordPress is decidedly mixed ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 26-Feb-2010
In case you weren't thinking "interoperability" was EMC's middle name, EMC hopes to convince the world otherwise with its EDN Monster Mash -- a Developer Challenge designed to showcase the mashability of EMC's Celerra, Centerra, Documentum, and Atmos Online product lines ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 19-Feb-2010
The other shoe has finally dropped in the EMC-FatWire saga. EMC announced in will acquire a (minority) stake in Mineola, NY-based FatWire, who will remain one of few privately held pure-play WCM vendors ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 9-Feb-2010
Buyers of the Linux and UNIX versions of FAST's Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) got some bad news the other day: It'll now be necessary to switch to a Windows server platform, or else move to some other product for enterprise search ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 4-Feb-2010
We've mentioned this a time or two before, but in recent dealings with a well-known WCM and DAM vendor there seemed to be some confusion about it, so perhaps it bears discussing one more time. We have a policy at CMS Watch of not signing NDAs with the vendors we evaluate ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 31-Jan-2010
From time to time, rumors surface about Web CMS vendor FatWire being up for purchase. Also, from time to time, we hear rumors about EMC Corporation being ready to acquire this or that content technology. Now there's a rumor going around fusing the two: that EMC might acquire FatWire ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 20-Jan-2010
Performance testing is a notoriously difficult undertaking. So much so, in fact, that it is sometimes not done at all, or only done when a performance problem arises in production, making some sort of investigation unavoidable ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 18-Jan-2010
Last week, I blogged about the increasing trend toward verticalization in the Search & Information Access space. As you may know if you've been reading our Digital & Media Asset Management Research ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 13-Jan-2010
The search technology marketplace is getting much more specialized, with important implications for you the customer. There are at least two different ways that software can specialize: Functionally and Vertically ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Jan-2010
It's not often that a well-known vendor simply vacates the software space, effectively forfeiting a chunk of the market to competitors. But that's what Open Text has decided to do with its main enterprise search offering. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 8-Dec-2009
Subscribers to our Search and Information Access Research are well aware that we've been increasing our coverage of Apache Lucene lately, in keeping with the phenomenal -- and still growing -- popularity of Apache's well-known open-source search engine ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 24-Nov-2009
The greater Boston area, no stranger to the Web CMS world (with companies like Percussion, PaperThin, Telerik US, and Refresh Software already based in the area), is about to add yet another content management mainstay to its denizens: Switzerland-based Day Software ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 17-Nov-2009
I was talking with one of our Web CMS Report subscribers today, someone who is leading a state government's effort to modernize its WCM system. The question arose as to how to keep vendors from giving softball answers to hardball questions when submitting a Request for Information. I proposed a simple expedient ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 11-Nov-2009
I've been covering IBM's search technology (for our Search and Information Access Research) for two years now, and I confess that I've never quite totally understood the strategy (if there is one) behind IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition (OYE) ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 28-Oct-2009
Anyone who's been watching the search space for a while knows that Apache Solr -- the popular open-source search server built on Lucene -- is the elephant in the room for a great many product-selection teams these days. It may be an exaggeration to say that most product-selection discussions begin with ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 19-Oct-2009
In evaluating dozens of products for the Web CMS Report 2010 (to be released tomorrow), we've had the chance to see some interesting user interface redesign efforts. Some of these efforts amount to little more than an array of cosmetic improvements, but others do succeed in making the UI more usable ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 8-Oct-2009
Caching is one of those infrastructural concerns that isn't terribly sexy (unless you're a true IT geek) but is nevertheless key to making a WCM system perform well. It's a notoriously tricky thing to set up, especially in n-tier systems with complex scale-out requirements. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 15-Sep-2009
As you may know, we've slowly and steadily been adding to our list of online education courses over the past year or so. I'm pleased to announce that yesterday, we added yet another course, on Web Development Platforms ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 31-Aug-2009
Blogger Julian Wraith recently asked CMS pundits to comment on The Future of Content Management. This is a topic I get asked about a lot, not only by CMS Watch customers ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 18-Aug-2009
Anyone who's been involved in a corporate-taxonomy project knows exactly how the terms "tedium," "tiresome," and "taxonomy" are related. Each derives from the other. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 3-Aug-2009
There's a saying in Hollywood, made famous by screenwriter William Goldman, that "nobody knows anything." It's a lament that sometimes seems to apply to the IT world as well. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Jul-2009
It's always encouraging to hear that, despite the dour financial environment in which we live, there are companies making money in the WCM space ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 28-Jul-2009
As you can imagine, in the course of covering more than 200 software products, my colleagues and I get to see and touch a lot of different user interfaces, and one thing we've all noticed lately is the trend toward larger and larger interfaces ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 14-Jul-2009
A while back, I wrote about our decision to expand our coverage of Apache Lucene for the Search and Information Access Report, based on what seemed like an accelerating rate of adoption of Lucene and related technologies ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 9-Jul-2009
The word "silo" (referring to a single, monolithic resource repository of some kind, often dedicated to a single vendor's applications) has such negative connotations these days that to suggest silos are actually good or necessary is to risk excommunication from the IT priesthood ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 1-Jul-2009
White papers are not something we typically critique or comment on, but Clickability's new white paper ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Jun-2009
As I talk to people in the content-technology industry (if I may call it that), I'm struck by a common thread that has begun to emerge in conversations involving roadmaps and futures ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 18-Jun-2009
So many things have gotten the "aaS" (as-a-service) suffix in the past year that it's hard to imagine anything new or noteworthy being added to the list at this point. But I'm starting to think ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 11-Jun-2009
I mentioned in an earlier post (about the recent Henry Stewart DAM Symposium) that one of the big trends right now in the DAM world is a shift toward client apps built on Adobe Flex technology ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 2-Jun-2009
One of the most striking trends underway in the DAM space right now (indications of which were abundantly present in the exhibitor booths at this year's Henry Stewart DAM Symposium in New York) is the rush toward Adobe Flex-based client interfaces ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 6-May-2009
The business world is full of tumult these days, and times like these are known to give rise to strange bedpartners. But few would have expected the kind of union announced by Open Text just a few hours ago ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 4-May-2009
Usually, as an analyst, I'm on the receiving side of briefings, but yesterday I gave one to a CMS Watch subscriber wanting to know more about ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 27-Apr-2009
There's been an interesting development with regard to Content Management Interoperability Services ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 10-Apr-2009
Until Open Text came along and bought the company (in a deal announced earlier this week), Toronto-based Vizible Corporation was not exactly (ahem...) visible.... ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 8-Apr-2009
We've been talking to a number of DAM vendors lately, and it's exciting to see so much new R&D and "capability buildout" going on at a time when activity in certain other spaces is (by comparison) rather slack, due to cost-cutting and other factors. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Apr-2009
One of the more popular sessions at the recent AIIM show in Philadelphia was this year's "Stump the Consultant" session ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Mar-2009
Economic downturns tend to accelerate change in the IT world: People with budgetary authority find themselves taking a fresh look ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 20-Mar-2009
Yesterday, OASIS (the standards body behind things like DocBook and BPEL) approved a new standard ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Mar-2009
Minnesota-based Ancept Media Server, LLC (one of the DAM ;vendors covered in our Digital and Media Asset Management Report) has been acquired by ViewCast Corporation ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 26-Feb-2009
Web CMS vendors live at an interesting intersection between the new and the old ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Feb-2009
CMS and DAM vendor Day Software (traded on the Swiss bourse as DAYN) has released financial results for FY 2008 ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 17-Feb-2009
It's amazing to me that so many of the vendors we cover at CMS Watch (even some that claim to have deep expertise in marketing and social-web sorts of things) still haven't figured out ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 31-Jan-2009
At 1430 hours UTC on Saturday, January 31, the unthinkable happened. Google malfunctioned. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 31-Jan-2009
Last week, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office made public a new Microsoft patent application titled "Content Management System and External Data Storage System Data Synchronization." ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 28-Jan-2009
SaaS is all the rage these days. It's the one "IT& trend for 2009" no pundit has missed. But the reality is that ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 26-Jan-2009
For the most recent edition of the Search and Information Access Report, I had the opportunity to help expand our coverage of Apache Lucene. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 23-Jan-2009
The announcement yesterday that Autonomy would buy Interwoven (a deal that should close in the second quarter of this year) has a number of interesting ramifications ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 21-Jan-2009
Today is a big day for Alfresco (and Alfresco users). This is the official launch date for Alfresco Labs 3d (Stable), ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 14-Jan-2009
We've written a fair amount about Vignette Corporation's various travails over the past year ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 12-Jan-2009
In a new report, Gartner reportedly points to effective use of ECM as something that can help enterprises make IT greener. The idea is that ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 9-Dec-2008
If you're one of the many industry observers who's wondered why Microsoft hasn't created a decent blogging platform ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 9-Dec-2008
Ironically, laying people off (as a way to improve operating efficiency) is not cheap. Just ask Adobe Systems. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 5-Dec-2008
As I wandered around the Gilbane Boston 2008 show last week, the question I heard people asking each other most often was some variation ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 19-Nov-2008
A recent press release concerning ArnoldIT's Google monitoring service piqued my interest ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 13-Nov-2008
Day Software's David Nuescheler (CTO) and Kevin Cochrane (the company's new CMO) were in town last week, and we had an interesting lunchtime conversation, much of it centered on the long-awaited Version 5 ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 11-Nov-2008
These aren't exactly the best of times for WCM/Portal/ECM vendor, Vignette Corporation. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Nov-2008
Cloud computing is one of those buzzphrases that, like "redistribution of income," seems to make otherwise dispassionate people hyperventilate ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Oct-2008
Microsoft's announcement this week of its intention to expose SaaS versions of its Office products ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Oct-2008
What's wrong with this picture? ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 27-Oct-2008
I've spent a lot of time recently researching various information-access technologies and search products, and I had a bit of an "Aha moment" the other day... ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Oct-2008
October 30 marks what could be a bitter-sweet day for Java aficionados ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 2-Oct-2008
Remember Google the way it was in 2001? ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 1-Oct-2008
Ordinarily, the last company on earth I'd expect to support open-source JavaScript libraries is Microsoft ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Sep-2008
Not long ago I bloggged about the newly announced Content Management Interoperability Services specification, which is ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 24-Sep-2008
Most content management professionals know very well the importance of user-based acceptance testing, and understand the high stakes involved ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 10-Sep-2008
It's often said that the great thing about industry standards is that there are so many of them. Now we have one more ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 2-Sep-2008
It's too soon to know what to make of Google's new Chrome browser (I've only been hammering on it a short time), but I have to admit I was disappointed ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 18-Aug-2008
Big Blue recently released its IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 31-Jul-2008
We've mentioned in the past the agonizingly long buildup to the release of Version 5 of Day Communiqué. The product's lackluster user interface remains a glaring sore point in what is otherwise a very capable and elegantly architected (if pricey) WCM platform ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Jul-2008
Vignette and Interwoven have released their second-quarter 2008 results, and it's a study in contrasts ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 22-Jul-2008
In a thoughtful post at JavaLobby, developer Ali Loghmani poses a simple but important question: Why is Web UI development so slow? ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 9-Jul-2008
In the future, your search system may need to scale to handle billions of documents. For some companies, the future is now. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 8-Jul-2008
Over at the Adobe Developer Connection website, Belgian developer Sébastien Arbogast has posted an interesting article (a tutorial of sorts) on how to write next-generation web apps in Flex ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 7-Jul-2008
Until a few days ago, Adobe's Portable Document Format was an open format in name only. The specification was freely available, to be sure, but PDF's development and direction remained firmly ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 26-Jun-2008
As one of the authors of our Enterprise Search Report 2008, I've been spending a lot of time lately looking at search technology and talking to folks who care deeply about the subject ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 23-Jun-2008
There's something vaguely Orwellian, at times, about the language that turns up in quarterly and annual reports ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 11-Jun-2008
Is it just me, or has anyone else been struck by the lack of attention being paid to blog comment spam? ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 22-May-2008
Lawyers were well represented (you might say) at this year's Enterprise Search Summit in New York. At times, ESS felt more like an e-discovery conference ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 18-May-2008
In an earlier post, I commented on the (undeclared) "VM war" that seems to be shaping up between Adobe and Sun Microsystems ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 15-May-2008
Digital Asset Management may not constitute a huge slice of the ECM pie, but it's a fast-growing slice ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 13-May-2008
Yesterday at the Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management & Marketing Operations Symposium in New York, I sat in on a DAM "best practices" talk given by onetime independent consultant Linda Tadic ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 8-May-2008
In an earlier post, prompted by my recent involvement as co-lead analyst on The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008, I commented on a few areas in which DAM and MAM vendors seem ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 6-May-2008
Just when you thought the Java application server market was pretty well saturated ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Apr-2008
It's hard to know how Documentum is doing these days, now that it's been assimilated into EMC (the $32 billion ILM colossus) ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Apr-2008
Vignette announced its first-quarter numbers last week, and the results weren't pretty ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 26-Apr-2008
Having spent a great deal of time in recent weeks talking to vendors, consultants, and customers in the Digital Asset Management space (in preparing for the upcoming release of our Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008) ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 22-Mar-2008
The JBoss folks have launched an ambitious new open-source project that is so breathtaking in scope, it defies easy categorization, even though (ironically) it is largely about categorization. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 13-Mar-2008
It seems to me IDC may have missed (or at least skimmed over) some important conclusions in its newly released 2008 update of last year's widely cited The Expanding Digital Universe ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 29-Feb-2008
Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, speaking at the SugarCRM Customer and Developer Conference earlier this month, made a pronouncement that went largely unnoticed by industry pundits ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 21-Feb-2008
Ever wondered how the major Java EE application servers compare with regard to basic session-handling performance? ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 19-Feb-2008
Microsoft is attempting what may amount to a brilliant and daring preemptive strike against Adobe, Linux, Java, and open source, all in one, with its DreamSpark program. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 15-Feb-2008
Funny how time flies. It doesn't seem like 18 months have passed since we blogged about Day Software's slipping development schedule ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 12-Feb-2008
According to the latest Report on Information Technology Spending for the Federal Government, the U.S. Treasury Department is requesting $28.2 million to spend on Enterprise Content Management systems in Fiscal Year 2009, up from ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 7-Feb-2008
It seems an important new buzzphrase has been christened by analyst Michael Coté of RedMonk, the open-source research firm. The Stackless Stack ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Feb-2008
Yesterday, security analysis firm CYBSEC S.A. released an advisory describing a vulnerability in Documentum 5.3 that, if uncorrected, would "allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the server filesystem." ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Jan-2008
Let's peek back into ECM/WCM vendor Vignette following last week's speculation about the company's financials ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 24-Jan-2008
Despite what eager (often junior) developers may tell you, snappy website performance is hard to achieve when you're serving complex, dynamic content ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 21-Jan-2008
Against the backdrop of the Sun and Oracle acquisition announcements of last week, it's easy to miss the fact that Vignette stock enjoyed a surprising spike ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 21-Dec-2007
Ironically, one of the main roadblocks to widespread adoption of JSR-170 (the Java Content Repository standard, now more accurately referred to as JSR-283) may be Java itself ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 14-Dec-2007
Is lack of standards compliance an anti-trust issue? The Opera folks think so ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 13-Dec-2007
Every once in a while, a game-changing technology overtakes an industry while it's napping. That seems to be happening right now with the iPhone ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Dec-2007
Who would have thought that an after-hours Chamber of Commerce speech in Ann Arbor, Michigan by a former JotSpot exec could set the blogosphere abuzz with rumors of the impending death of Web Content Management as we know it? ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 5-Dec-2007
At the Gilbane conference in Boston last week, I chatted for a few minutes with new FatWire CEO Yogesh Gupta, who made what I thought was an interesting observation ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 20-Nov-2007
Andrew Davies of Portcullis Computer Security Ltd reports that an older version of FatWire's Web CMS product, Content Server 6.3.0, exposes cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 7-Nov-2007
A Web CMS survey conducted by the University of California at Davis (preliminary results of which were released October 22, 2007) made official what many of us suspected all along: Even the best minds in the world can't agree on how to do content management ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 14-Aug-2007
One of the theoretical advantages of Java-based Portals and Content Management applications is the ability to cluster servers for better performance. But the reality is that clustering is a black art that few vendors and implementation teams really ever seem to master adequately. So it comes as a (welcome) surprise to learn of an open-source technology that delivers many (if not most) of the things customers want here, but in surprisingly quick, painless fashion, at low cost, with no need to recompile code or stay up nights learning about disturbing-sounding concepts like "STONITH" (shoot the other node in the head). ... Continue Reading
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