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Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Jun-2013
Yesterday we released an update to our Web Content & Experience Management (WCM) vendor evaluation research with an emphasis on the .NET mid-market tier, including fresh takes for our 20-page reviews of ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 13-Jun-2013
Web CMS vendors frequently tout their systems' usability, but in fact a big evolution towards complexity has been underway in the WCM world for the past several years. That's right: user interfaces for editors and marketers are getting more complicated rather simpler ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-May-2013
Last night, the Drupal Association confirmed media reports that the Drupal.org site was hacked, with passwords and user registration information potentially compromised ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-May-2013
People often ask us advice on the best conferences for web and experience management technologies and practices. One consistent event is the Gilbane Conference, now in its eleventh year. This December Gilbane is partnering with InfoToday ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-May-2013
In an earlier post on this topic, I mentioned that for Cloud File-Sharing (CFS) Platforms to become a part of the enterprise layer -- as opposed to just serving as stand-alone tools like most of them do now -- they would need to improve in a number of areas. One of the key areas where almost all the tools need improvement is in the area of reporting and compliance ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 25-Apr-2013
RSG subscribers and consulting clients often ask me for a recommendation on a content management conference. I have to admit: there aren’t that many CMS/WCM-focused shows left these days. But one of them is a three-day CMS Expo, set to commence on May 14 in Evanston, Illinois. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Apr-2013
For most of the past decade, global enterprises have been rationalizing and professionalizing their web publishing operations, setting global standards, upgrading local talent across various regions, investing in better technology. All good.
But I'm perceiving a new twist on this trend, and I'd be interested to hear your take ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 17-Apr-2013
We’ve updated our evaluation of HP's Autonomy TeamSite CMS in version 21.5 of the Web Content and Experience Management (WCXM) evaluation research ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 15-Apr-2013
In our WCM selection advisory services, user security and entitlements continue to come up as tricky issues. These are certainly not new challenges, but vendors address them in different ways, and certainly customers vary in their requirements here. So to provide a little education, below I've excerpted bits of the front matter from ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 18-Mar-2013
Some common arguments against cloud-based services in general -- and cloud-based file sharing services in particular -- revolve around the security implications of your files getting stored outside your firewall.
A typical argument goes like this ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 14-Mar-2013
Innovation champions often wonder whether and why they need additional tools for managing innovation, when they have already invested in collaboration and social software. That's a valid question ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-Mar-2013
Despite many predictions for the demise of enterprise portal technology, this class of technology has not gone away. In fact, portal and portal-like capabilities ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 11-Mar-2013
Last week Oracle announced integration of multiple social media services that it has acquired in recent times. Oracle calls it Social Relationship Management Suite and it consists of Collective Intellect, Involver and Vitrue ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 5-Mar-2013
While I still find myself incapable of giving a satisfying answer to those asking the question, “What’s the best enterprise search engine?” -- in the same vein with “What’s the best CMS?” -- I have to admit that there’s one that stands out based on its activity and progress in the past few years, particularly when it comes to application search. And the name to the search engine is ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 4-Mar-2013
Every year, we review and analyze the overall status of the Web Content and Experience Management industry and summarize it in the Market Analysis and Trends paper, which is accompanied by what we call Reality Check charts ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 27-Feb-2013
Salesforce.com has a gap in their marketing cloud in the key area of Marketing Automation (MA). In general this is not a bad thing, since they integrate with several other MA vendors instead ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 27-Feb-2013
As you know, we on a regular basis consult and advise many clients – large and small – in many verticals. I, personally, believe that a Web Content Management System is not a vertical application. There are occasional exceptions, but overall Web CMS is a horizontal business application, and any CMS can be potentially used by any type of business, depending on what the actual needs are. ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 22-Feb-2013
In a webinar I led earlier this week, I talked about the latest developments in WCXM (Web Content & Experience Management) marketplace and trends. Not surprisingly, one of the topics hit a nerve with many and spurred a slew of follow-up questions. The hot trend was around how SaaS/Cloud Web CMS vendors continue to struggle, with rare exceptions, despite broader organizational adoption of cloud-based technologies in the enterprise ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 21-Feb-2013
Where's the fine print? You can creatively define a category that eliminates everyone else and preside over a parallel universe in which only you reside. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 18-Feb-2013
Last week, we released Version 10 of our Enteprise Portals and Content Integration evaluation research ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 13-Feb-2013
Some advice: always start with the proposition that a vendor's "suite" is no better integrated than if you had selected separate, standalone tools from different suppliers. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Feb-2013
Security is a touchy subject in the Web CMS world in general and very touchy in particular among open source WCXM projects, since open source platforms are frequently accused (often unfairly) of being inherently insecure by dint of their more open development models.
So it's been interesting to watch some Plone adherents contrast their platform's security profile to that of some major competitors ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Feb-2013
In both the 2007 and 2010 SharePoint releases, Microsoft heavily touted its web content and experience management (WCXM) improvements, typically referring to them as state-of-the-art. In reality, basic WCXM capabilities were "shoehorned" into SharePoint’s document-collaboration framework.
Ultimately, this meant that WCXM in SharePoint has never proven as functional, elegant, or cost-effective as ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 6-Feb-2013
Salesforce.com has acquired EntropySoft, a French content integration and migration vendor. Some observers have speculated this is a way for Salesforce to enter the Enterprise Content Management marketplace. I think a closer look will reveal a different rationale ... Continue Reading
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