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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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 6-Feb-2012
I enjoyed an excellent day in Oxford last week speaking (and listening to the other speakers) at a CMS Expert Group round table event. Many topics of interest emerged, but the one that underlay several discussions -- and is also close to my heart -- was, "When is a Web Content Management project not a Web Content Management project?" ... 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 Tony Byrne on 30-Jan-2012
We've just updated our longstanding "subway map" for 2012.
Biggest changes have come around acquisitions (e.g., HP), and ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 20-Jan-2012
We recently attended the Click Asia Summit in Mumbai, a gathering for digital and social media marketers in the region. Here are the mantras and maxims, tidbits and trivia from the event ... 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 Theresa Regli on 14-Dec-2011
Because I completed my university degree and started working full-time at the age of 20 (I wanted nothing more than to finish school and be out in the "real world"), I am not particularly impressed by copious degrees, professional certifications, or letters after a person's name ... 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 Tony Byrne on 12-Dec-2011
A skilled technology industry analyst is a rare bird: loves figuring out the innards of the tools, writes with depth and clarity, but can communicate effectively with business and IT leaders alike and coach them to make good decisions. We try to set a pretty high bar above and beyond that. If you've seen our work and think you'd be a good fit for a very demanding job, check out our ongoing analyst position openings ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 6-Dec-2011
It took a bit of financial courting, but we have another market match: the struggling Alterian has agreed to sell out to SDL for an all-cash, 110p-a-share offer for a total sum of £68.4 million ... Continue Reading
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 Tony Byrne on 5-Dec-2011
Like all analyst firms, every year-end we make predictions. I think we're fairly unique, though, in going back to see how our earlier predictions fared. Let's see whether our predictions for 2011 actually panned out. These were the twelve predictions we made in December, 2010 ... Continue Reading
Added By David Hobbs on 30-Nov-2011
Your most important web content management use case is also probably the simplest. Yet it's easy for us to get excited about all the possibilities (in other words, the complexities) of a CMS and lose focus on this important use case: your day-in and day-out publishing process ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 23-Nov-2011
Every few years, someone declares one type of Web Content Management (CMS) software on the verge of "liftoff," to take over the entire space. Early last decade, people tried to convince me that open source was going to dominate the world "by 2005." ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Nov-2011
We've just released a minor update to our Web CMS Report, which evaluates 42 major products from around the globe. Version 20.3 includes updated reviews of ... 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 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 Irina Guseva on 26-Oct-2011
And the second new entrant to our DAM/MAM research I want to introduce you to is Elvis DAM by Dutchsoftware. Random fact: I collect KLM Blue Delft miniature houses. Elvis joins my “Dutch vendors I review” collection. ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 13-Oct-2011
Last week I attended the Adobe MAX annual customer conference in Los Angeles. My primary interest revolved around WCM/WEM and DAM, and checking out how the acquisitions of Day Software and Omniture are getting integrated. To remind you, we cover Adobe’s CQ5 product in our WCM evaluations, and CQ DAM and Scene7 in our DAM report. ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Oct-2011
Below is an excerpt from an interview I had with with Australian journalist David Walker. I thought it worth re-publishing here too. In a wide ranging chat undertaken whilst I was grumpy and jetlagged we discussed amongst other things Interwoven (now Autonomy soon to be HP), Vignette (OpenText), and Microsoft ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Sep-2011
Next Wednesday I will be hosting a free SharePoint-themed webinar. My intent is to look at SharePoint in 2011, its victories to date and its challenges ahead. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Sep-2011
This past week HP fired their CEO Leo Apotheker, making him the third CEO in a row to part with HP prematurely. But of all the departures this one one is the least surprising by far. His announcement that he was to buy Autonomy for a staggering $10.3 Billion -- far more than anyone else figured the firm was worth -- and spin of its market leading PC division was surely the most spectacular act of self-immolation in a long time ... Continue Reading
Added By Sanjeev Gupta on 16-Sep-2011
In our recently released Web Content Management Vendor Evaluations version 20.2 we've updated our research on two interesting vendors - Hannon Hill and TerminalFour ... Continue Reading
Added By Sanjeev Gupta on 15-Sep-2011
Web Experience Management (WEM) is the latest buzz word in the WCM marketplace, having been adopted -- at least in theory -- by vendors small and large. I recently took a closer look at two of the larger vendors: FatWire Content Server (Oracle Sites after being acquired by Oracle) and OpenText WEM (the former Vignette WCM). ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Sep-2011
Since HP decided to buy Autonomy for just over $10 Billion dollars, there has been a lot of discussion over the acquisitions that Autonomy itself made over the years to expand its portfolio of products and grow its revenues. ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 6-Sep-2011
At the end of summer in the northern hemisphere (which hopefully was full of fun and adventures for you), I'll take you on a little surf through the waves of the recently released version 20.2 of our WCM vendor evaluation research. We have a new entrant to the "Upper-range Platform" vendor category: Sitecore ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Aug-2011
Earlier this week we released some key updates to our Web Content Management comparative vendor evaluations. This batch includes several players who claim to excel at "experience management." Unfortunately, they've generated substantially more new lines of marketing than new lines of code ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 25-Aug-2011
While SharePoint has been on the market since 2001, customers still get quite confused by Microsoft's licensing schemes. When I speak at conferences, I'm commonly asked about how to license SharePoint. Questions like "what can I expect to pay for SharePoint licenses" or "what specific licenses to I have to buy" are frequent topics of discussion ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Aug-2011
Earlier this summer we held a mini-summit of some RSG analysts and captured each others' thoughts in a series of short videos. In this one I make three broad technology predictions: ... Continue Reading
Added By Sanjeev Gupta on 22-Aug-2011
Having worked with a broad spectrum of technology customers over the years, I've come to see broad common patterns in the mistakes that most large enterprises make -- be it during the technology selection process, RFI/RFP process, or project execution itself ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Aug-2011
I cannot say that the acquisition by HP of search giant Autonomy bodes well. Taking the parties' past histories into account, this simply doesn't seem to be a good long term match. Hence my advice is ... 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 Tony Byrne on 4-Aug-2011
Most of the Web Content Management vendors we evaluate claim to have some sort a cloud option.
For many of these vendors, this boils down to one of two things: ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 1-Aug-2011
Some vendors we cover in the Digital & Media Asset Management Report are in a committed, pure DAM/MAM relationship with their customers. Others – like Nuxeo, Adobe CQ and VYRE – which we have just updated with new evaluations – tend to favor a more open relationship incorporating aspects of WCM, ECM and DAM. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Jul-2011
With the amount of exposure for SEO nowadays, a whole industry has sprung up around it. And CMS vendors have been quick to jump on the bandwagon, offering a myriad of SEO "features," "modules," "plugins," and "wizards." From what we can see, customers are finding it increasingly hard to distinguish sense from nonsense ... Continue Reading
Added By Sanjeev Gupta on 19-Jul-2011
The Joomla! open source WCM community today released version 1.7, just 6 months after the release of 1.6. Perhaps because the development team has been busy stabilizing a 1.6 trunk that was packed with many new features, version 1.7 does not offer much of significance for end users ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Jul-2011
When you advise customers selecting software, as we do, on occasion you run into very awkward and difficult situations. Recently we've seen more cases in which we (RSG) are advising buyers, and software vendors bidding on an RFP process have contacted us directly to elicit information and advice, or in two particular cases to try to bribe us ... 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 Tony Byrne on 12-Jul-2011
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Added By David Hobbs on 11-Jul-2011
If you're rolling hundreds or thousands of sub- or micro-sites across your enterprise in the context of a new Web CMS, you'll want to streamline the coordination between subsite owners and the central implementation team ... 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 Sanjeev Gupta on 8-Jul-2011
Going through technology selection is like finding yourself a bride or a groom – everyone will we have their own opinions to share, with a lot of hype being built around each one's recommendations. But really, no one but you knows what you want and what your real priorities are. ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 6-Jul-2011
The word adobe traces its roots to spoken Arabic (from Coptic), where it was al tub, or "the brick." Adobe's recently announced Digital Enterprise Platform (ADEP) can be described as a tub of bricks for building tablet, mobile, web, and desktop applications. The "tub" in this case is CRX -- the repository layer that Adobe took over via the Day Software acquisition. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Jun-2011
Like old soldiers, sometimes old Web CMS tools don't die outright....they just fade away. Case in point: the product formerly known as RedDot, which became OpenText Web Solutions, but is now re-branded "OpenText Web Site Management." RedDot boasts a long and storied past. However, it started falling behind its competitors even before ... 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 Tony Byrne on 29-Jun-2011
By now you know that Microsoft SharePoint has a 3-year development cycle. Three years is not a long time for highly process-oriented functionality, like many types of document management applications. However, a long development cycle is a significant shortcoming in areas like Collaboration/Social and Web Content Management, where Redmond's circa-2009 codebase feels increasingly out of step ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 27-Jun-2011
In our recent 20.1 release of the WCM Report, we’ve updated evaluations of several CMS vendors in the .NET arena, including DotNetNuke, Ektron, Kentico, SharePoint. The mid-market product tier is a bit like the crowded Grand Central station: ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Jun-2011
Rules of thumb can be dangerous -- because of the inherent broad generalizations. But they can also be quite useful, especially if they highlight something that may be unpleasant to hear, but shouldn't be ignored.One such truths is that in general, your implementation cost for an enterprise implementation will come to 7 to 8 times that of initial licensing ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 21-Jun-2011
We've said this before on this blog, in various ways. But sometimes, the simple analogies seem to work the best: if you think of SharePoint, think of it as a Swiss Army Knife. That sounds great, doesn't it? It's like the multi-tool of content technologies. Imagine a major vendor and integrators turning up at dinner to explain how great their Swiss Army Knife is for any purpose, and yes, it's excellent to carve your food with, too. Why go with just a knife, if you can have a whole range of additional functionality in one system? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Jun-2011
Last week we released a significant update to our comparative Web Content Management vendor reviews. There's a lot to conclude here about what's going on in the marketplace, but for now, I'll just summarize some of the new info from our revised evaluations ... 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 Tony Byrne on 7-Jun-2011
It seems like once a year one of us gets motivated to write about rich text (a.k.a., WYSIWYG) editors. After more than a decade in the market and much innovation, they are still a constant source of confusion and frustration for content managers. Too many vendors assume that rich text editing is "commodity" feature, when alas, it is not ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 6-Jun-2011
I am sad to report that the Web Content Management market is still not advanced enough to offer a CMS where you can just stare at your computer screen, intently channel your thoughts, and have your modifications simply appear on your website automagically ... 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 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 Adriaan Bloem on 18-May-2011
Perhaps you're thinking about adding some "2.0" to your site or intranet, to obtain that great user generated content (UGC) -- but where do you start? You start with commenting, of course ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 17-May-2011
In the 15 years I've been working with Web CMS technology, there's always been a gap between what vendors say their tools can do, and what customers actually accomplish with those tools. Upon the 20th edition release of our Web Content Management vendor evaluations, it's become clear that this gap has never been wider ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 16-May-2011
In Boston, USA for most of the month of May, I've been following with interest a local story about former Massachusetts Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi. A federal grand jury recently indicted the former Speaker and three of his associates on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, and mail fraud, after DiMasi allegedly wielded his power to procure multimillion-dollar contracts for a software company, Cognos ... 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 Irina Guseva on 4-May-2011
Delft, a town in the province of South Holland, is not only famous for its signature lieflijk blue-and-white pottery -- like those miniature KLM houses that are given out on flights -- but also for its software too. One Delft-based company is moving out of the newfound cradle of Dutch software to Amsterdam, as video management vendor Calamares (funny name, no?) has been acquired by SDL to be rebranded as SDL Media Manager ... 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 Irina Guseva on 3-May-2011
Well, spring seems to be a good season not only to celebrate Queen's Day in the Netherlands and the Internationals Worker's Day in Russia, but also to harvest the vendor acquisition crop. Next up ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-May-2011
We've just published a major update to the Web CMS Report. This was a team effort and in the coming weeks my colleagues will be sharing a bit more about what's new in Version 20.0, but for today, I'll share a bit about our updated methodology ... 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 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 Irina Guseva on 27-Apr-2011
Those of you under the impression that Web Engagement Management (WEM) and Customer Experience Management (CEM) are mere buzzwords may want to pause and observe. I am not saying that I am in favor of creating more acronyms ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 25-Apr-2011
Intranets guru James Robertson (of StepTwo) just reminded me of the Intranet Innovation Awards 2011, now in it's fifth year. It's one of the few ways to learn of great intranets, because after all, these are usually hidden behind the firewall ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Apr-2011
As a technology customer, sometimes you should worry less that a software vendor is blowing smoke, and perhaps a bit more that the vendor's consulting partners may be leading you down the garden path. Some consultants bank their entire job -- or even their whole career -- on a specific product, and will sometimes defend it to the last ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 19-Apr-2011
I am asked this question a lot in relation to different vendors. I know the answer. But I am always perplexed by the origin of the question. ... 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 Tony Byrne on 12-Apr-2011
People often ask me about the origins of The Real Story Group (formerly CMS Watch). How and why did we come into being? What made (and makes) us different? ... 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 Irina Guseva on 6-Apr-2011
I've been getting a lot of emails and LinkedIn inmails lately with words “Day CQ” and “CQ5” confettied all over them. Logical conclusion: implementation skills for (now) Adobe's CQ5 Web CMS are in growing demand ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Apr-2011
In the early days of Web Content Management, many customers tried to employ the same technology -- and often the same physical infrastructure -- for publishing both their intranet and public websites. During most of the past decade, the trend has been to separate these efforts ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 30-Mar-2011
Over the past few weeks I have been seriously challenged to revisit and reassess my views around SharePoint. As an analyst it is all too easy to fall into the trap of studying a topic, coming to a conclusion (hopefully the right one) and then sticking with that conclusion. Time and the steady pace of progress eventually change everything, and SharePoint is no different in this regard ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 21-Mar-2011
It’s been only a little over year since EMC admitted its ineptitude in the realm of Web Content Management, and graciously invited FatWire to share the stage and play the role of a lovey-dovey partner. Today, another WCM vendor joined the affair -- SDL with its SDL Tridion Web CMS ... 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 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 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 Irina Guseva on 3-Mar-2011
More than eight years after its inception in pure VB.NET, open source project DotNetNuke decided to make a leap and move its entire CMS core to the more modern and widely supported C# ... 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 Tony Byrne on 28-Feb-2011
Most software implementations fail to realize their stated objectives -- and much of the problem can be traced to a poor solution selection process. Very often a business unit leads the process, but they may have never done it before. Other times selection may fall completely to an IT team or individual, who in turn may have to guess at business needs in the absence of sufficient participation by their colleagues ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 28-Feb-2011
What should you make of a new product "distribution" that a CMS vendor develops in an effort to supplement its very platform-like offering with a more out-of-the-box product? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Feb-2011
This month's update to our Web CMS Report evaluations offers the latest critiques of nine web content management vendors: ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Feb-2011
I've been working with web content management systems for almost fifteen years now. And exasperatingly, I still see the same project problems recur constantly ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Feb-2011
The era of the mega-IT exposition may be closing, but two large conferences -- info360 and Interop -- continue to thrive. I think it's because both events are very well run, and both focus on meaty business problems ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 17-Feb-2011
I always get a mild panic attack when I come across "simple upgrade" claims in the context of web content management systems. And it’s not because I find change and technical/infrastructure topics unnerving, but because I’ve seen those CMS upgrades in practice, and in real life, they are never simple ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 10-Feb-2011
Today we've published an advisory paper called "When will DAM 'Lite' suffice?" This analysis emerged out of discussions with subscription customers about the digital asset management services now available within web content management technology platforms. Our customers sometimes ask us if they can use their WCM or document management system for their growing DAM needs. And then there's the constant question, "Can I use SharePoint as my DAM?" ... 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 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 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 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 4-Feb-2011
The Real Story Group continues to grow, and so we are currently looking to fill a number of vacancies ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 31-Jan-2011
Well, it's time to retire the Twitter hash tag #GuessIrinasNewJob. I'm thrilled to announce that as of today, we're doubling the girl power factor on the Real Story Group analyst team with the addition of Irina Guseva ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Jan-2011
For the past ten years we've been using check-marks (with plus and minus indicators) in our comparative ratings and scenario charts. Some of our research customers have asked for a more visually revealing approach, and we've settled on harvey balls ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Jan-2011
There are many ways to visualize the Web CMS marketplace. Our evaluation research lines up competing vendors head-to-head across several dozen criteria for you to compare, but we also know there's going more to your experience with a particular technology than scenario and technical fit ... 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 Tony Byrne on 13-Jan-2011
I recently had the chance to sit down with the famous John Gilroy of Federal Tech Talk on Federal News Radio in Washington, DC. The 30-minute show aired earlier this week, but you can listen to or download the archive ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Jan-2011
Some of our subscriber inquiries have to do with accelerating their website and CMS deployment times. Having been burnt by waterfall-oriented development methodologies in the past, enterprises are now looking to "agile" development for answers. But already, many are becoming equally disillusioned with agile. Is it really just as problematic as waterfall? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 12-Jan-2011
Nearly all the vendors we cover have become quite good at marketing themselves. But if you dig deeper, you'll find many differences have gotten wallpapered over. The challenging bit for us is trying to explain what lies underneath. Take Alterian, and its Alterian Content Manager product ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jan-2011
Here's our latest "Content Technology Vendor Map," updated for 2011. We've accounted for several marketplace changes, and happily, numerous new stations. Many of you have asked us in the past to interpret the map and explain further how it can help you, so we'll do just that ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Jan-2011
We've just updated our evaluations of five Web CMS offerings, and added a new one (Atex Polopoly) to our report ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 5-Jan-2011
After a long wait, extended several times, Drupal 7 was released today. So what is it like, and should you rush over to download and install it right away? ... 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 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 Tony Byrne on 16-Dec-2010
CMS vendors and open source community leaders frequently brag about the growing volume of such add-on modules, but for customers this landscape can be confusing and ultimately quite disappointing. ... 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 Tony Byrne on 14-Dec-2010
After a decade of doing this, I can assure you that the demos vendors give during canned analyst and media "briefings" and the demos they perform for customers during the sales process are as different as night and day ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Dec-2010
One question I get on a regular basis is, "so, what's the best CMS?" And I invariably reply, "it depends." There really is no best CMS; there is only the best fit for you, in your scenarios ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Dec-2010
We have a new new advisory paper out called "Develop the Right Shortlist with an RFI" that hits on a key gap in many procurement processes. For with most prospective content technology buyers, great effort gets expended on an RFP process at the cost of the RFI. In fact, there often is no RFI. This is a mistake ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Dec-2010
You may be getting pressure to join a particular tool's bandwagon. This year it could be Drupal, Sitecore, Jive, or Liferay. Next year it will certainly be a different set of names. Our industry is nothing if not faddish. When faced with the bandwagon effect, I encourage you to pause and consider all the angles ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Dec-2010
We always follow the communities around specific products quite closely. Whether an open source or commercial closed source system, product communities can give us great input on the real story. But one thing to remember is that the most active and enthusiastic communities are also a really biased source of information ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 30-Nov-2010
Swedish WCM vendor EPiServer was acquired a few weeks ago -- and I've been trying to come up with something meaningful to say about it ever since ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 29-Nov-2010
Most recently, Wired Magazine managed to reach the zenith with the article "The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet." Even though that's been discussed to death on the web (dead itself), allow me to spoof their title one last time. Just to make an entirely different point: whereas the mobile web is alive and kicking -- it's becoming nearly impossible to create mobile apps. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 23-Nov-2010
At any given time, I'm in the process of helping three or four Real Story Group research subscribers through a procurement process. Oftentimes, the most complicated part of the process isn't creating an RFP, determining the short list, putting together the evaluation team or use case scenarios. It's normalizing the pricing ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 23-Nov-2010
Next week, my colleague Alan Pelz-Sharpe and I will be hosting several sessions at the Online Information conference at London's Olympia. Based on recent research conducted for our enterprise search and digital asset management evaluations, I'll be speaking about ... Continue Reading
Added By David Hobbs on 19-Nov-2010
Many web teams may consider it a forgone conclusion that you should redesign your site as part of your migration to a new CMS. But it doesn't necessarily have to be that way. In fact, there are many disadvantages to doing a redesign and migration at the same time ... Continue Reading
Added By Matthew Clapp on 16-Nov-2010
I admit I was a little nervous when I took this new position evaluating web content management vendors for The Real Story Group. I was sure that I would find myself completely underwater and overwhelmed by advances in technology and process automation ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 15-Nov-2010
Last month I held a webinar on recent developments in Intranet technologies. Many of you on the east side of the Atlantic Ocean let me know that the webinar timeslot wasn't convenient. So, we've scheduled a live reprise, for Wednesday, December 8, 2010 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM GMT. ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Nov-2010
No content management supplier today can start or end a sales pitch without a mention of mobile. Whether they be large ECM vendors talking about access to your secure documents on your Blackberry, or a B2C oriented web content management vendors discussing rich media delivery to the iPad ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Nov-2010
If you employ SharePoint on your intranet, should you also use it publish your public websites? The debate rages, and there is no universal answer. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 29-Oct-2010
In twelve years of following Web CMS technology, I've found that vendors and open source projects consistently announce two areas of improvement with each new version of their software. The releases typically say something like ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 28-Oct-2010
I tend use cars as a metaphor to describe the differences among software products. Even in internal discussions among our team of analysts. Which is how this came up last week: I described a particular system as a Toyota compared to another vendor's Ferrari ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 27-Oct-2010
There are some things in life that just shouldn't be considered optional, like deploying a web content management system in a three-stage Development-Test-Production environment, or even four, with Staging thrown in. Most enterprises run their actual websites and web applications in ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 25-Oct-2010
I was on the phone the other day with an enterprise business/IT team who were wondering if they made the right choice in the new Web CMS they were implementing. This is not an unusual conversation: many organizations second-guess their CMS decisions ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 18-Oct-2010
Last week, I presented at Mobile Mojo -- an event about Mobile & Social. It was an interesting gathering, with a lot of buzz. One of the highlights was certainly Peter Hinssen's excellent keynote about ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Oct-2010
My post yesterday about Autonomy reminded me to explain a bit more about software vendor "roll-ups" and what they really mean to you the customer ... 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 Tony Byrne on 8-Oct-2010
When I was a pup in the enterprise technology industry, I noticed that some of the best solutions came from smaller vendors. Upon hearing this, my elders would pull me aside and say, ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 6-Oct-2010
Most enterprises I encounter who are implementing new information management systems (like Web CMS, Portals, Collaboration, DAM tools, etc.) understand the importance of employee training, and we certainly advise customers to pay close attention to it with RFPs and program planning ... 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 Tony Byrne on 27-Sep-2010
Are you an Intranet leader expected to stay abreast of multiple related technologies? If so, please join me for a complimentary webinar next Monday ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 27-Sep-2010
What, your system vendor doesn't have an app store yet? Apple has popularized the concept, and most phone platforms now have something similar: Google's Android Market and Nokia's Ovi Store come to mind. So now everyone has to have one, not just devices, but enterprise software as well ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Sep-2010
In many end-user organizations, software support fees can make up the bulk of the yearly IT budget. This is hardly surprising when vendors typically like to calculate support contracts on the basis of ~20% of list pricing per annum, in perpetuity ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Sep-2010
On October 7th, the MobileMojo event in Utrecht (NL) will focus on mobile and social media. Those two areas touch on almost everything we cover, so I'm happy that both my colleague Theresa Regli and I will be attending ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Sep-2010
This month, we've updated our evaluations of three Web CMS vendors: ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-Sep-2010
Vamosa means "let's go" in Spanish, and sadly the UK-based content migration technology firm Vamosa is indeed going...away ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Sep-2010
Please join me for a complimentary webinar next Wednesday, 22 September, "How to Select a Web Content Management System." ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Sep-2010
There are many ways to categorize technology vendors. In our evaluation reports we get into considerations of cost, architecture, functionality, vendor intangibles, and many other criteria. Selecting the right software is a multi-dimensional exercise ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Sep-2010
Our product evaluations are here for one purpose alone -- to provide buyers with truly independent, technical, and critical assessments of the products they are considering. What this means in practice is that some products get added to our services, and others quietly get dropped ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 8-Sep-2010
A couple of people pinged me last week, basically asking, "who are these Atex people?" (The company's name got a bit elevated when they made it onto Gartner's recent Magic Quadrant analysis for web content management.) ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 30-Aug-2010
Danish CMS vendor Sitecore released their new version 6.3 last month. For me, the immediate question always is: how much has changed? It's only a dot release, so it shouldn't be anything major, right? Well ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 26-Aug-2010
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management 2010 is out, accompanied by vendors' public crowing and private tears, depending on their placement. You can get a copy of the MQ from Sitecore, who just obtained a ticket on the magic elevator ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Aug-2010
Many observers expected big things when DotNetNuke Corporation raised serious venture capital in November, 2008. (DotNetNuke Corporation is the commercial entity behind the sprawling, open source CMS community by the same name) ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Aug-2010
There's an odd fascination with equestrianism in technology. Vendor landscapes are often described as horse races; there's leaders and laggards, winners and losers. That's great for gamblers, investors, and jockeys. But it's not very useful ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Aug-2010
There's a lot of mysticism shrouding Autonomy's mega-search offering, "IDOL." Not in the least bit because every piece of software that is acquired by the vendor is either "plugged into," "powered by," or "integrated with" IDOL. Supposedly, ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 12-Aug-2010
This year's big plan for Swedish Web CMS vendor EPiServer was to go public on July 30th. In the end, though, that didn't quite work out: EPi withdrew at the last minute ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Aug-2010
Explaining technical concepts -- which are often quite abstract -- can be quite a challenge. So at the Real Story Group we often try to be creative in how we go about explaining things ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Aug-2010
You probably see a variety of overlapping terms to describe the management of content. One example is "assets" -- aren't all content items assets of one kind or another? ... Continue Reading
Added By David Hobbs on 2-Aug-2010
Do you run or plan a site with hundreds or thousands of subsites? If so, you have many unique issues to deal with, including complex permissions, templating, taxonomy, and UI requirements ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 2-Aug-2010
As a digital asset management analyst, one of the most common questions I get is, "Why doesn't Adobe have its own DAM?" ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 29-Jul-2010
This month we updated evaluations for four Web CMS vendors: SaaS players Clickability and OmniUpdate, as well as Drupal and GOSS ... 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 Tony Byrne on 22-Jul-2010
With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has strongly promoted the platform's upgraded content management capabilities. Now that the hype is died down, and there are production implementations in the field, it's possible to take a harder look ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 15-Jul-2010
If you're running a SAP NetWeaver Portal -- presumably since you've bought into SAPs infrastructure -- you may have discovered it's not the most ideal of platforms to actually publish content on ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Jul-2010
There is an outcry in the UK at the moment over the cost of building and maintaining Government websites. The figures released by the government relating to individual department website costs ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Jul-2010
I'll agree with mega-vendor Autonomy on one key point: Search technology is really important. But is it so important that search functionality should dominate your choice in a content management system? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 7-Jul-2010
I sometimes warn that a vendor's content management system is well suited to "simple" scenarios, but not necessarily a good fit for "more complex" cases. That's a bit problematic: ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 6-Jul-2010
After a long spending spree -- pretty much on anything XML -- SDL has now acquired small Dutch vendor Xopus ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Jul-2010
Well, it was to be expected: after a long wait, WordPress 3.0 got released just when I was on a short holiday. (WordPress admins shouldn't be allowed to take holidays for that exact reason.) ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 1-Jul-2010
Now that we've built content management to reach into the clouds, have we been punished by a confusion of tongues? Sure, there are tangible differences between, say, a page-based or a component-based system. And some labels are rooted in their underlying technology. Still, there's a couple of archetypes we could at least attempt to label similarly ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Jun-2010
In the UK today, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne will announce his emergency budget details. The one thing we know in advance is that this will contain some of the most severe cuts in recent history ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Jun-2010
Please join me for a free webinar -- "When Google Analytics Isn't Enough: Alternatives in the Web Analytics Marketplace, 2010" -- examining the pros, cons, and alternatives to Google Analytics, on Tuesday, 29 June, at 1:00pm EDT ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 15-Jun-2010
Here's our latest take on the marketplaces we cover. We still can't fit all the vendors we evaluate, but we're getting closer ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 10-Jun-2010
You may have noticed Facebook "Like" buttons spring up everywhere on the web the past few months ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-Jun-2010
Just a note to say that I will be at each of upcoming AIIM UK Roadshow the week of the 14th June. I will be giving the closing keynote each day ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Jun-2010
I was myself once a systems integrator, and many of my friends still work for systems integrators. This is my roundabout way of saying sorry in advance for the following video ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Jun-2010
This week we updated a slew of Web Content Management vendor evaluations. Over the past two quarters we've touched every vendor review in one way or another, so this latest update officially represents ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 27-May-2010
Every time the last Thursday of the month rolls around, I'm reminded of the fun and interesting crowd that gathers at the Hoxton Hotel in London for the Last Thursday CMS social events ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 24-May-2010
The world of document management is not one that most people associate with fun, laughter and good times. It has been described (by me on occasion) as about as exciting as watching paint dry ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-May-2010
My colleague Adriaan Bloem has produced a short briefing answering two important questions that have emerged around Drupal Gardens ... 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 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 Tony Byrne on 12-May-2010
Microsoft and its partners have good reason to party, but for you the celebrations could come prematurely ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 11-May-2010
My colleague Alan Pelz-Sharpe and I frequently engage in friendly debate. Recently, we've been discussing the pros and cons of using scoring spreadsheets in the vendor evaluation process ... 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 Tony Byrne on 7-May-2010
At this week's J Boye conference in Philadelphia, I joined a panel reviewing some of the "hot topics" from the event. As you might expect at a gathering of web and intranet managers, the issue of governance kept recurring ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 3-May-2010
Microsoft's closest software partners whose core competency lies in knowing the innards of SharePoint have largely rejected the platform as an internet publishing service ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Apr-2010
It's an important question that deserves an unbiased answer. Please join me a free webinar on Tuesday, 11 May, to explore potential alternatives for your organization ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 23-Apr-2010
I spent several days anxiously keeping track of the latest updates on the cloud hanging over Europe. It gave me plenty of time to ponder just how important on-line communications play a role in this nowadays. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Apr-2010
Please join my colleague Alan Pelz-Sharpe next Tuesday, 27 April at 11am EDT for a free webinar, "Why ECM and WCM Projects Fail: Best Practices to Prevent Your Project From Failing" ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Apr-2010
Last week we updated several WCM vendor evaluations, including ... 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 Theresa Regli on 8-Apr-2010
One of my favorite parts of my job is the educational aspect - helping people new to content technology understand what it does and how it works. ... 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 Tony Byrne on 1-Apr-2010
I'm delighted to announce today that we have just released new research on emerging technologies that will transfer live human beings to the Cloud ... 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 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 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 Theresa Regli on 26-Mar-2010
The annual Internet World UK event in London is always one of my favorite shows to attend each year. ... Continue Reading
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 Tony Byrne on 24-Mar-2010
Is it a buyers' market for content technologies? Some enterprises believe that technology suppliers are so hungry for business that they will line up for kilometers to respond to an RFP. ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Mar-2010
Whilst recently working on a change management initiative for one of our multinational clients, I had a bit of an "aha!" moment. I was in the midst of explaining to the assembled team members how their future information management system ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Mar-2010
Yesterday we released a new advisory paper on workflow. The briefing focusses in particular on what you need to look for (and what you can dispense with) in Web CMS and Digital Asset Management environments ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Mar-2010
As you may know, a lot of our work at the Real Story Group involves helping people make the right information management buying decisions. Not surprisingly, one of the most common areas where our customers seek our counsel is with vendor scoring and assessment methodologies ... 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 Tony Byrne on 12-Mar-2010
Last week I received a message from a friend discussing the annual fees his firm pays for their hosted Web CMS. The CMS and associated website are served up by a well-known, Software as a Service ("SaaS") WCM vendor ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Mar-2010
Last month we updated several WCM vendor evaluations, including ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Mar-2010
There's a debate raging within Twitter about whether traditional blogging platform WordPress is also a CMS ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Mar-2010
I get that question a lot, especially since one of our main services is called "CMS Watch" ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Mar-2010
My colleague Alan has produced two short briefings of special interest to content technology selection teams ... 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 Tony Byrne on 24-Feb-2010
There's a question that keeps popping up around our industry: "What is Enterprise Content Management?" ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Feb-2010
Today we released a new advisory paper, "How the New Platforms vs. Products Debate Impacts Your Success." Subscribers to any of our EI Watch, SharePoint Watch, and CMS Watch research streams can ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Feb-2010
Mega-vendor Open Text announced today that it would acquire fellow Canadian vendor, NStein. NStein was known mostly for its text-mining / text analytics tools, but over the years took a circuitous route ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010
Over the last few weeks there has been a flurry of media interest in the fact that SAP is reselling EMC Documentum and Open Text products. It's a flurry (bordering on blizzard) that is of little or no relevance to actual buyers of these software products ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010
Welcome to the Real Story Group! For my colleagues and I this is an exciting time, and part of a continuing adventure that I hope you will join. ... 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 Tony Byrne on 17-Feb-2010
Welcome to the Real Story Group. Today we cut over to our new website(s) ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 15-Feb-2010
On behalf of HTML developers across the world, I would like to thank Apple and Google. Specifically, Mountain View for dropping Internet Explorer 6 support, and in its own not-so-small way helping us get rid of the untold horrors IE6 has inflicted on stylesheets for the past seven years. And Cupertino for the advancement of HTML 5 ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Feb-2010
Early next week, we will be re-launching this website, adding some new sites, and at a more fundamental level, revamping the way we serve our customers. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Feb-2010
Our colleagues over at Forrester recently undertook some interesting research regarding content management investment attitudes in 2010 (DM, RM and WCM). The overall finding was along the lines one might expect ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 4-Feb-2010
Software vendor Alterian has cleared up which Web CMS software it wants to try to sell you in the future. In short, all of their alphabet soups going forward will taste like Morello ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Feb-2010
Our job here is to advise buyers of technology, never vendors. But today I am going to make an exception and give the vendors out there a solid tip. Do your homework before responding to RFPs ... 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 Theresa Regli on 27-Jan-2010
Earlier this week I had an advisory call with one of our gold subscribers who's in the process of creating a short list of vendors for Web Content Management. A US-based health care company ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 27-Jan-2010
Like nearly all its competitors, Swedish Web CMS and Social Software vendor EPiServer is doing well financially. The company reports nearly $30m in revenues over 2009 and now boasts almost 3,000 customers. So perhaps it's no surprise that last week ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 26-Jan-2010
CMS Watch is looking to hire a Web Specialist, based in Delhi India. This person will manage our website(s), perform some light coding, and oversee various short- and long-term web projects ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Jan-2010
We're looking to hire a UK- or Europe-based (with native English) sales and support executive. You can ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 18-Jan-2010
For those vendors with solid profits, it's a buyer's market. SDL, parent company of such products as Tridion, Trados, Trisoft, and XySoft, announced the acquisition of Dutch e-commerce vendor Fredhopper today. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Jan-2010
I heard the words "Deep Web" used this week at an industry gathering. It's something I have not heard in quite a while, and looking around me in the room I figured that few people there had any idea what this term actually refers to ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Jan-2010
Today we received an inquiry from a research customer about the UK WCM market size, and I gave what felt like a rather unsatisfying response. Here's the question and my answer. Perhaps you can suggest other ideas via comments, below ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Dec-2009
Yesterday we issued our twelve predictions for 2010. Once again, I'll look back at our 2009 predictions and see how we did ... 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 Tony Byrne on 10-Dec-2009
As 2009 comes to a close, let's take a quick look back at the Web CMS ("WCM") marketplace. (We'll offer some separate predictions for 2010 early next week.) I think the most important development was actually a non-event: for the thirteenth year in row, the quite fragmented WCM marketplace did not "consolidate" in any meaningful way. And this, I believe, is a good thing for you the customer ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Dec-2009
We've just updated our "Content Technology Vendor Map" for 2010 ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 1-Dec-2009
A press release was sent to me today with the title "SDL Tridion Puts Online Forms at the Heart of Interaction." Which made me smile, in a nostalgic sort of way ... 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 Tony Byrne on 20-Nov-2009
We've recently updated how we evaluate the nuts and bolts of the forty-one Web CMS vendors we cover in our Web Content Management research. Specifically, we've expanded and re-organized our ratings categories ... 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 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 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 Theresa Regli on 11-Nov-2009
Last week I attended J. Boye's 5th annual conference in Aarhus, Denmark, which always attracts a high quality of speakers, and (unlike many other conferences) focuses on case studies and end-user implementation challenges ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-Nov-2009
As subscribers who received our recent advisory paper know, there is plenty to be excited about in SP2010, especially if you are a part of the SharePoint channel of resellers, consultants, developers, and system integrators. But over the past few weeks I have been noticing something of a shadow side to this excitement ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Nov-2009
Last week the catchily-named organization ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) announced that it had approved the use of Hindi, Mandarin, Hebrew, Korean, and twelve other languages -- that are not based on the Roman/Latin alphabet -- for use in domain names ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Oct-2009
In the latest edition of our Web CMS vendor evaluation research, we went through a fairly intensive restructuring process, and I'm really excited about the results. Over the coming week I'll share some more details, but for today, let's look at how we've recategorized the vendors ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Oct-2009
Today we released our latest Web CMS evaluations, updating reviews of all forty-two vendors we cover. There's a lot to say about the vendors, and over the coming weeks we'll explain how we've updated our criteria as well ... 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 Tony Byrne on 10-Oct-2009
This week we welcome Apoorv Durga to our analyst team. Based in Dehli, India, Apoorv has previously served as as a ... 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 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 Tony Byrne on 7-Oct-2009
In the past few weeks, two high-profile people have departed established content management vendor empires for upstart players ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 6-Oct-2009
If you're following the content management space closely, but aren't a Java wizard, the JSR (Java Specification Request) numbers can become a bit of a puzzle ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Sep-2009
Once upon a time, when people started building web content management systems that actually allowed you to manage the content (and not just publish it), there were hundreds of editors ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Sep-2009
Phil provided some very useful background on the deal and initial thoughts earlier this morning. Here are a few more comments. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Sep-2009
Every day on Twitter, we excerpt <140 characters from one of our Web CMS vendor evaluations and challenge you to guess which vendor we're referring to ... 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 Tony Byrne on 4-Sep-2009
ECM mega-vendor Open Text has a successful track record of acquiring smaller competitors, then absorbing their revenue streams and selectively improving certain "winners" going forward. ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 31-Aug-2009
It's one of those elusive dreams of web content management: a completely metadata-driven publishing model. Especially when there's lots of content, and a variety of sites or channels targeting different audiences. Wouldn't it be great if content more or less automatically found its way to the right places? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 28-Aug-2009
A recent trend in Web Content Management is publishing to social networks -- Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, et. al. -- out of your Web CMS. Not surprisingly, some of the hosted CMS vendors are more advanced here ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 27-Aug-2009
Over the years, I've seen a large number of web content management functional designs, technical designs, requirements, wireframes and mock-ups. And usually, the one thing missing is what's most likely to shoot the implementation in the foot ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 21-Aug-2009
Contrary to what you'd might have heard, in the Web CMS space, products rarely disappear without a trace. However, product names do often vanish in acquisitions. So as a public service, if you're reading this because you were searching for either Mediasurface Morello or Immediacy ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 17-Aug-2009
A few weeks back I suggested that a vendor's sales and marketing acumen shouldn't really matter to prospective customers. In a nice comment, Bex Huff argued that ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Aug-2009
If you're admin of a number of WordPress implementations, I hope you didn't plan anything. Just because, you know, neither did WordPress. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 7-Aug-2009
At first I was hesitant to write a critique of the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for WCM. They're a worthy competitor, we could learn from them about the value of high-level summaries, and the MQ makes an easy target ... 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 Tony Byrne on 31-Jul-2009
IBM surprised Wall Street earlier this month with unexpectedly good Q2 financial results ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Jul-2009
We're seeking a Sales Administrator, based in New England, USA, ideally Massachusetts ... 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 Tony Byrne on 29-Jul-2009
Longtime information management guru Bob Boiko is a modest guy. You won't hear him blowing his own trumpet, so I will ... 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 Tony Byrne on 28-Jul-2009
Annual software support and maintenance fees are something every customer loves to hate, and yet, for the most part we keep paying them ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Jul-2009
Jane McConnell of NetJMC is organizing the 4th edition in her annual survey of global intranet strategies ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Jul-2009
Intranets have been around for more than in a decade in many enterprises, yet developing an effective intranet remains a puzzle for many information and communications managers ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Jul-2009
Bluenog, an upstart web content management company, continues to make waves. But not always the kind of waves they'd like ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Jul-2009
A lot of my time is spent evaluating technology, and I have a confession to make: the licensing is one of the least spectacular bits to review. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Jul-2009
I frequently receive questions like this: "We're a major regional hospital, what's the best CMS for us?" Or, ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 2-Jul-2009
As Murraymania swept the UK, I settled into my seat on Court No. 2 last week, on Wimbledon's always-action-packed middle Saturday ... 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 Tony Byrne on 1-Jul-2009
In recent months I've encountered several customers of web analytics mega-vendor Omniture who had a very specific gripe about the platform: ... 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 Tony Byrne on 11-Jun-2009
I'll disagree with Gartner as frequently as the next person, but their Hype Cycle is surely genius ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 27-May-2009
At CMS Watch, we're advocates only for you, the technology customer. But sometimes the customer is unreasonable ... 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 Shawn Shell on 21-May-2009
Perhaps it doesn't strike you as a surprise, but Microsoft just launched the new SharePoint product site using SharePoint 2007 ... 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 Tony Byrne on 11-May-2009
We've just released the latest major update to our Web CMS research. (That's Version 17 for those counting.) ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-May-2009
I had the pleasure of participating in the JBoye 09 conference in Philadelphia, USA earlier this week ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-May-2009
This morning as I awoke at an ridiculously early hour (jet lag), to find my mailbox full of questions from journalists, commentators, and CMS Watch research subscribers asking for my take on the deal. ... 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 27-Apr-2009
There's been an interesting development with regard to Content Management Interoperability Services ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 20-Apr-2009
An early joke on Twitter about the Oracle/SUN acquisition: "Oracle buys Sun just to see if Twitter can handle the resulting noise" ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Apr-2009
Compliance is one of the watchwords of 2009... ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 7-Apr-2009
That would be David Pogue, New York Times technology columnist and author of the ... 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 Tony Byrne on 25-Mar-2009
How do I know? Some smaller vendors are starting to peddle their CMS wares via spam ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 25-Mar-2009
Today we released some findings pointing out how Web CMS vendors are increasingly embedding website search into their packages ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Mar-2009
Microsoft's browser went out for general release today. Like you, we'll be scrambling ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Mar-2009
Autonomy's acquisition of Interwoven formally closed yesterday ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Mar-2009
Spring is here, and, as in Autumn, this means new products released and new version numbers ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Mar-2009
In calling for greater "online transparency" (i.e., more, better, faster web content) along with more "citizen participation" (i.e., user-generated content), the Obama administration is going to encounter a technology marketplace ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Mar-2009
The Dutch government has announced the new website www.rijksoverheid.nl, and has chosen Hippo CMS 7 ... 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 Tony Byrne on 3-Mar-2009
CMS Watch seeks a Technology Analyst based in the UK or continental Europe to evaluate Web Content Management and other Content Technology vendors ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Mar-2009
Today we updated our semi-famous "subway map" for 2009 ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-Feb-2009
For the past year or so there seems to have been a battlefield of sorts emerging between proponents of social networking and all things E2.0 and the more traditional proponents of ECM ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Feb-2009
Last night I had the pleasure of presenting to a DC-area Drupal Users' Group on the past and future of open source web content management ... 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 Tony Byrne on 12-Feb-2009
Fine summary in CIO Magazine's blog, about various customer "gag orders" some major ERP vendors are attempting to impose contractually ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Feb-2009
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" -- so the saying goes ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Feb-2009
I teach a lot of intro courses about web technologies, and enjoy them very much. But I'm particularly excited to be teaming with ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Feb-2009
We're starting to see more vendors coming out with Flex-based user interfaces, sometimes extending them as full-blown desktop applications ... 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 Tony Byrne on 23-Jan-2009
"Channel partners" are consulting or integration firms that implement or provide supplementary services to a software vendor's technology ... 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 Tony Byrne on 22-Jan-2009
Well, we've finally opened up to your comments. You can post feedback ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Jan-2009
We're looking to hire a full-time Marketing Associate ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Jan-2009
Today Autonomy announced that they intend to buy Interwoven. ... 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 Tony Byrne on 20-Jan-2009
It's been nearly a year since Serena Software re-incarnated itself as a "mash-up" vendor and tried to jettison its mid-market Web CMS ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Jan-2009
Perhaps not an image you'd want lingering in your mind, but yes, in software, you can get a Hippo in drag ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Jan-2009
The technology sector has been nothing but doom and gloom recently, but a recent report by the Aite Group shines a bit more light on to what is a fairly complex market ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-Jan-2009
Customer-driven, web self-service will surely become a dominant theme for 2009. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Jan-2009
Quarterly results have never been so closely scrutinized as they are right now. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 7-Jan-2009
After cruising along as $200m/yr companies through middle part of this decade, Vignette and Interwoven appear to be headed in opposite directions ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 4-Jan-2009
After 4 years of growing and energetic conferences in Denmark ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 19-Dec-2008
November brought bad news for all Livelyzens ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Dec-2008
One of my favorite little phrases is "double edged sword," and I found a perfect application for it recently, in a discussion of "incumbent" vendors ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Dec-2008
Sitting through countless vendor demos to clients over the past couple of years, I've noticed a trend -- at least among Web CMS and Portal vendors -- of sales engineers ("SEs") emphasizing sales over engineering ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Dec-2008
Today we released our annual predictions for 2009 ... 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 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 Tony Byrne on 5-Dec-2008
James Robertson has produced a very practical paper on how to assess the usability of Web CMS tools ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Dec-2008
Ask Web CMS vendor FatWire. Linda Tucci calls it, "...a booby trap." ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Dec-2008
Talking about SharePoint in Copenhagen today and yesterday reminded me of an interesting point ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Nov-2008
It was the quote of the week: timely and definitive, perfectly summing up the value of ECM ... 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 Tony Byrne on 19-Nov-2008
I recently had a wide-ranging interview with Government Computer News ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 17-Nov-2008
You can now review the schedule for the late March AIIM Expo 2009, to be held in Philadelphia, PA, USA ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Nov-2008
Yesterday I attended the Interwoven annual Analyst Day in New York. It was an interesting day in many respects ... 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 Janus Boye on 10-Nov-2008
It has been more than 6 months since the most recent press release with any substance from privately-held Web CMS vendor Percussion ... 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 Tony Byrne on 6-Nov-2008
Here at J. Boye 2008 in Denmark, yesterday we held the 3rd-annual Web Idol ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 26-Oct-2008
On Friday Microsoft announced a few interesting details on the next service pack for SharePoint. ... 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 Tony Byrne on 24-Oct-2008
I've been advising a large enterprise in the midst of a somewhat complex Web CMS and Component Content Management implementation ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Oct-2008
Web CMS vendor Day Software announced earlier this week that Kevin Cochrane had signed on as Chief Marketing Officer ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 17-Oct-2008
We're looking forward very much to the annual J. Boye conference in Aarhus, Denmark during the first week in November, because ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Oct-2008
I have decided that I love user group meetings, and I want to go to more, so please invite me to yours... ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Oct-2008
At a client meeting this morning, I was reminded that the Percussion Rhythmyx Web CMS supports roles, but not groups. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 9-Oct-2008
The Web CMS Report 2009 is bigger, better, and dare I say, badder than the fourteen previous editions ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 8-Oct-2008
A former colleague of mine, one of the smartest engineers I have ever had the pleasure of working with, recently attended "developer training" for WCM vendor ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Oct-2008
As bailouts become a global phenomenon, it's time to review what this all means for you, the technology buyer ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Sep-2008
SharePoint has been on my mind a lot recently, not least because we have been undertaking ... 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 Tony Byrne on 23-Sep-2008
In the crush to support public websites, I think (too) many Web CMS vendors are ignoring Intranet scenarios ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Sep-2008
Yesterday I had the opportunity to participate in "DM Radio" -- an hour-long chat organized by DM Review magazine ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Sep-2008
I came across this job opening, which roughly translates as, "Wanted: Tridion developer. Must know everything (and then some)." ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Sep-2008
Over the past two years, Web Content Management vendors have fallen over themselves to provide more interactive services on the front ends of websites ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 12-Sep-2008
If you're a regular reader of this blog -- or our various reports -- the HartmanEVENT 2008 in Utrecht, The Netherlands next week ... 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 Tony Byrne on 8-Sep-2008
What happens when Google calls old pages "news "? ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Aug-2008
Last week Microsoft announced new licensing arrangement for its products, including SharePoint Server 2007 ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Aug-2008
At the TDWI Summit this week, I had the opportunity to talk about Web Analytics with enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) execs ... 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 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 Tony Byrne on 5-Aug-2008
We've been following Web CMS vendor Hot Banana for some time now ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Aug-2008
I'm thrilled to invite you to two seminars and a full-day conference on enterprise search, findability and information architecture, taking place next month in the wonderful cities of Copenhagen and London ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 31-Jul-2008
As we enter the peak of the vacation season, those of us fortunate enough leave the rat race and head off to distant shores. And it was whilst on a very distant shore this past week that I came across an advertisement that stopped me dead in my tracks ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 30-Jul-2008
WordPress version 2.6 was released two weeks ago, and as I reviewed 2.5 for the Enterprise Social Software Report 2008, I was eager to run it through its paces ... 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 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 Janus Boye on 24-Jul-2008
While Web CMS vendor Sitecore has been busy promoting the new user interface in its recently released Version 6, the company has attracted quite a bit of criticism from existing customers ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Jul-2008
A new season brings an updated vendor map: ... 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 Tony Byrne on 22-Jul-2008
Nobody likes content migrations. But they're inevitable. Like trips to the dentist ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Jul-2008
CMS Watch is looking for someone who suffers from a variant of our particular obsessive disorder: a passionate interest in how content technologies really work ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jul-2008
We're pleased that CMS Watch now covers ten different technologies, but I suspect that many of you take an interest in only one or two families of tools ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jul-2008
Gartner's recent "MarketScope for Web Content Management" has predictably garnered a lot of attention from vendors happy with their position in the ratings chart. I have a mixed reaction ... 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 Theresa Regli on 9-Jul-2008
Late last month I had the pleasure of attending the Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Symposium in London, UK, where I presented a summary of our research recently ... 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 Tony Byrne on 2-Jul-2008
We've critiqued SharePoint's rather awkward web publishing capabilities in different evaluation reports (on Web CMS tools and SharePoint itself). But we also see customers who seek to deploy SharePoint for their public websites, either because ... 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 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 Tony Byrne on 19-Jun-2008
After participating in the first day of the Gilbane San Francisco conference yesterday, here some short observations in no particular order ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Jun-2008
People frequently ask me about where their Web Publishing efforts should end and Social Software begin. Like so many things, the answer is ... 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 Tony Byrne on 5-Jun-2008
...which comes to Boston next week, 9-12 June. It's a "big tent" conference that seems to accommodate many different notions of things-2.0 ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Jun-2008
Software-as-a-Service has an especially strong case in the area of Digital Asset Management, where the buyer is often a marketing manager or creative team with a fixed monthly budget and little to no IT support. But not all SaaS is created equal ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 2-Jun-2008
It might come as little surprise that Oracle is very actively moderating their Oracle wiki, but a recent blog entry reminded me just how important culture is to wiki adoption ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 2-Jun-2008
You may remember a while back we launched our little competition to come up with a new name for our vendor positioning chart ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 29-May-2008
Sitecore is a very active Web CMS vendor with a tendency to adopt new technologies and techniques in advance of the rest of the market ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-May-2008
We recently pointed out that UK-based Web CMS vendor Mediasurface was being courted, and now the suitor has revealed themselves: ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-May-2008
As you know at CMS Watch we write critical product evaluations to help you avoid expensive procurement and deployment mistakes ... 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 Tony Byrne on 13-May-2008
As a content producer, it has been fascinating to watch the evolution of channels where technology suppliers talk to technology customers ... 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 Tony Byrne on 6-May-2008
I've been hearing various rumors recently about mid-market Web CMS vendors up for sale. If true, ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 3-May-2008
When budget-building time comes up, many technology customers face the interesting question of how much money to put aside for new software licenses ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 2-May-2008