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Sharpening the dull Digital Asset Management functionality in SharePoint

Added By Kashyap Kompella on 2-Feb-2012

It is an understatement to say that Sharepoint has become a nearly ubiquitous platform for workplace collaboration. Yet, as our technology evaluation subscribers know, Sharepoint may be omnipresent but definitely not omnipotent. An enterprise cannot just survive on Sharepoint for all its unstructured content needs, since there are significant functionality gaps in the Sharepoint armor ... Continue Reading

Updated Technology Vendor Map

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

New evaluations of Avid Interplay MAM and MerlinOne DAM

Added By Theresa Regli on 26-Jan-2012

Today we release an update to our Digital & Media Asset Management Report. In addition to insights on DAM Trends for 2012, we now have an in-depth 12-page evaluation of Avid's Interplay MAM, and a first look at MerlinOne. ... Continue Reading

2012 DAM and MAM Market Overview - WAVE, Avid, and North Plains making the biggest changes

Added By Theresa Regli on 24-Jan-2012

Today we publish our 2012 Digital & Media Asset Management Market Overview. Things are markedly more exciting in the DAM & MAM world as we start 2012, versus the relatively calmer 2011. Product development has picked up, in particular among mid-size and large DAM vendors, as they attempt to beef up their feature offerings to cover more of the digital & media management spectrum ... Continue Reading

Can MediaBeacon keep up?

Added By Theresa Regli on 23-Jan-2012

MediaBeacon is one of the bright and blinking stars of the Digital Asset Management world. Led by the ebullient and opinionated Jason Bright, the Minneapolis-based company has a much larger footprint on the market than the small size of the company would suggest. MediaBeacon's DAM tool is among the industry's more flexible and standards-based, and though largely focused on brand management scenarios, the company made extensive efforts to add video management features over the last 18 months ... Continue Reading

Digital marketing making inroads in India

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

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Added By Kashyap Kompella on 13-Dec-2011

A recent conversation with a large global enterprise about their Digital Asset Management project reminded me of the Zen Kōan – "Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand clapping?" The project in question has weathered some turbulence ... Continue Reading

2012 Technology Predictions

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

How accurate were our 2011 predictions?

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

Storage Wars in the Cloud

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

Talking Digital Asset Management in Europe

Added By Kashyap Kompella on 16-Nov-2011

Amidst all the talk of gloom and doom in Europe, we present an article where the words “Europe” and “Crisis” don’t have to be uttered in the same breath...

The Europe edition of the Creatasphere Digital Asset Management conference in the Hague brought together DAM customers, vendors, and consultants for a few days.  Bringing this event to Europe is fitting ... Continue Reading

Elvis DAM: Handsome resident of the Dutch software belt - with room for gezelligheid

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

Adobe Scene7 and CQ DAM - sibling rivalry or happy marriage?

Added By Irina Guseva on 24-Oct-2011

In our recently updated Digital & Media Asset Management Report version 4.0, you'll find several new entrants to our research that I want to introduce to you. Let's start with Adobe Scene7 ... Continue Reading

Welcome Kashyap

Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Oct-2011

I'm delighted to announce that we've added a new technology analyst, Kashyap Kompella, to our team.  Kashyap has deep experience in many of the technologies we cover, and brings a broad mix of industry, architectural, and usability perspectives ... Continue Reading

Adobe MAX 2011 impressions: WEM and DAM out of focus

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

Mobile-Enabling Enterprise Applications

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

Major DAM / MAM Research Update: Elvis, Scene7, North Plains, Extensis, Widen

Added By Theresa Regli on 30-Sep-2011

We just released a major update to our Digital & Media Asset Management Report. In this update, version 4.0, we've added: ... Continue Reading

Microsoft SharePoint in 2011 - 2012: State of the Nation Webinar

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

HP and Autonomy - a marriage made in hell?

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

Understanding Autonomy's Family Tree

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

Epic floods, covered bridges, and the importance of archiving

Added By Theresa Regli on 31-Aug-2011

As Irene crawled up the coast, we Vermonters were ready for high winds and power outages, but never expected our rivers to crest beyond historic levels. Just about every story of data, information, or historic loss starts with the phrase “we never expected.” I never expected to experience an earthquake when I was in Virginia last week, either ... Continue Reading

Helping you avoid the mistakes of others

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

When vendors come up with new labels

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

HP plus Autonomy equals Buyers Beware

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

Should you stick with OpenText for DAM?

Added By Theresa Regli on 10-Aug-2011

The most common question I get from our Digital & Media Asset Management research subscribers these days is, "Should I stick with OpenText?" In fact, three of our subscribers asked me this in the past week. Mega-ECM vendor OpenText are the current owners of "Media Manager" -- the product formerly known as Artesia, now dressed up in new, Flash-fronted clothes ... Continue Reading

DAM Success Stories in Chicago

Added By Theresa Regli on 5-Aug-2011

The DAM industry will soon gather in Chicago for the annual Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management event, Sept. 12 & 13th. One of the stars of the recent HS event in London was Real Story Group customer Lisa Hayward of Shell International, who presented a case study of their recently-launched new DAM ... Continue Reading

The marriage of Content Management and DAM

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

How to get yourself thrown off a technology selection list

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

Opening for Technology Analyst at Real Story Group

Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Jul-2011

We're hiring.  Would you like to explore joining  our top-notch team of analysts?  Read the full position details here ... Continue Reading

How to Avoid Common Technology Selection Mistakes

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

First look at Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform

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

Implementation Cost Multipliers

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

New Digital and Media Asset Management Research

Added By Theresa Regli on 10-Jun-2011

This week, in tandem with the Henry Stewart DAM conference in New York, we released an update to our Digital & Media Asset Management Research. New to our mid-market challengers category is the fastest growing DAM/MAM vendor in Europe, Austria-based celum. A key competitor for European players such as ADAM ... Continue Reading

DAM and mobile: should you go with a dedicated mobile app?

Added By Theresa Regli on 26-May-2011

As I prepare my plenary session presentation for the upcoming Henry Stewart conferences in New York and London, I'm doing a lot of research on how well digital & media asset management (DAM) tools adapt to mobile environments ... Continue Reading

5 Cloud Contract Considerations

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

On Trial for Software Kick-Backs

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

'Tis the season to talk about DAM

Added By Theresa Regli on 13-May-2011

You may not think that technology markets have seasons, but they do — and spring is digital asset management season in the Northern Hemisphere. There's many conferences focused on digital asset and media management during the spring, and we at Real Story Group have been in the thick of updating and expanding our DAM evaluation research ... Continue Reading

Key Considerations for Choosing the Right Storage Alternative

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

SDL adds Media Asset Management via acquisition of Calamares

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

What does it mean for SaaS WCM when Clickability sells cheap?

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

From WCM to WEM and CEM - a change of heart?

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

Our founding principles

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

No more content management

Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Apr-2011

I'm pleased to share the results from some new, path-breaking research we've been conducting this year. Content Management technology is no longer necessary. Read the full release here ... Continue Reading

MAM makes the difference between an immersive and merely acceptable experience

Added By Theresa Regli on 29-Mar-2011

A few weeks ago, I stood transfixed by the Code of Hammurabi at the Louvre in Paris. I took in the rather sparse exhibit around the stele for at least 20 minutes, reading the French translation (no English one was provided), and closely examining the cuneiform carved into the stele. It was quiet; a few people asked me to take their picture with the object. ... Continue Reading

SDL - EMC - FatWire -- The Great Love Triangle?

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

Real Story Group March Madness Bracket

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

Cloud on the rack

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Mar-2011

What could have been a snoozefest in fact turned into a full-on attack of the value and promise of Cloud Computing ... Continue Reading

Content Therapy is back at info360

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

Check out these two great conferences

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

DAM Webinar this week

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Feb-2011

This Thursday 17 February I'll be hosting a free webinar focused on Digital Asset Management (DAM) product selection. I hope you can join me ... Continue Reading

Talking brand management in London

Added By Theresa Regli on 11-Feb-2011

I'll be in London in a few weeks attending the Technology for Marketing & Advertising conference and Online Advertising Expo at Earls Court Two. On day two, Wednesday March 2nd, I'll be talking about technology for brand management, highlighting some of our latest research findings in Digital Asset Management ... Continue Reading

When will DAM Lite suffice?

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

Feeding Your Content Technology Research Needs

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

North Plains and MediaBeacon - always in the same breath?

Added By Theresa Regli on 3-Feb-2011

In the nearly three years since we first began in-depth research into the Digital & Media Asset Management market, I've been nothing short of fascinated by the process of uncovering more and more details about DAM vendors and their tools. ... Continue Reading

Welcome Irina Guseva, Analyst

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

Updates to our vendor comparison charts

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

What happens when a standard dies?

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

New Subway Vendor Map for 2011

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

Major Update to Digital Asset Management Evaluations

Added By Tony Byrne on 6-Jan-2011

Last week we updated our evaluations of seven DAM vendors ... Continue Reading

Making lassi in a washing machine requires the right model

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

Digital Asset Management 2011 Market Preview

Added By Theresa Regli on 21-Dec-2010

I'm excited to wrap up the year by writing a "State of the Market" on DAM. This has been a very busy year for us here -- our DAM subscriber numbers increased substantially and our customer inquiries for personalized help in a DAM procurement were near-constant. Could it be that DAM might finally be hitting the mainstream? ... Continue Reading

Assessing Buyer Risk via Redesigned Cross-Checks

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

Thinking Holistically Beyond the Smart Phone

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

No substitute for real-world testing

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

Develop the Right Shortlist with an RFI

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

Can your vendor be too successful?

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

Lots of information - not enough critiques

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

How we get the real story

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

2011 Content Technology Predictions

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

The complications of vendor pricing

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

How did our 2010 predictions fare?

Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Nov-2010

As you may know, we make twelve predictions every year, and every year, we go back to try to assess our accuracy. So, let's see how we did with our 2010 predictions from last December ... Continue Reading

Do you really want a Ferrari?

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

Dev-Test-Live for your CMS too

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

DAM in Hollywood

Added By Theresa Regli on 19-Oct-2010

I've never been a Hollywood kind of gal. I'd rather read a book than watch a movie, hardly own any makeup, shrug at the sight of of anyone famous (well, except perhaps when I almost walked into Paul McCartney in London a few years ago), and would rather wear a classic black suit than waste time and money on the latest fashion. So, it's not without a bit of hesitation and extra consideration of my wardrobe that I'll pack my bag for my first Hollywood stage appearance, at next month's Henry Stewart Conference on Digital Asset Management ... Continue Reading

Why software vendors acquire others

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

Beware big vendors if you care about viability

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

Education versus Training

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

App Store? There's an App for that

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

The high cost of support

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

Mobile and Social event in Utrecht

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

DAM Conference in New York next week

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Sep-2010

Next week (Thursday 23rd) I will be in New York to speak at the new Creatasphere DAM conference. I must confess I am really looking forward to this particular event as it sort of kicks off my personal event season, and does so in some style ... Continue Reading

Why you shouldn't rush to Adobe CS5

Added By Theresa Regli on 10-Sep-2010

If you're an end-user of Adobe's Creative Suite (CS), which includes such applications at Photoshop and Illustrator, you're likely aware of the furor over the termination of support for Version Cue that coincided with the release of CS version 5 earlier this year ... Continue Reading

What makes The Real Story Group different?

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

The Ethics of Software Criticism

Added By Theresa Regli on 6-Sep-2010

If there is anything I follow just as closely if not more closely than the world of content management, it is the world of food. If I'm not talking to customers about DAM vendors or watching demos of the latest software, you can safely bet I'm either shopping for food, cooking, hosting friends for a lavish multi-course meal ... Continue Reading

Join me for a DAM Diagnostic Webinar

Added By Theresa Regli on 30-Aug-2010

I'll be hosting a webinar next week, talking about Digital Asset Management ... Continue Reading

Vendor Landscapes and Horse Races

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

What Exactly is IDOL, Anyway?

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

Join me for DAM in Chicago or Hollywood

Added By Theresa Regli on 17-Aug-2010

I'll be attending and speaking at the two Henry Steward Conferences on Digital Asset Management this fall in Chicago and Los Angeles. In addition to a presentation on what's new in DAM technology (with an updated focus on mobile), I'll be ... Continue Reading

Making sense of IT gibberish

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

Adobe To Acquire Day - Second Take - DAM Perspective

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

Adobe To Acquire Day - First Take-ECM Perspective

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

How to get the right vendors to respond to your RFP

Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Jul-2010

Many of our enterprise research customers are reporting an interesting trend: fewer responses to their RFPs (a.k.a., "tenders"). Even vendors they had at the top of their lists may decline to bid. This puzzles them ... Continue Reading

Don't ogle search if you really want content management

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

UK Budget Cuts and Public Sector IT

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

Get your updated vendor subway map

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

Video: Meeting the System Integrator

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

DAM evaluation update - adding Fedora, Nuxeo, plus new versions from Autonomy and Open Text

Added By Theresa Regli on 25-May-2010

Today I'm excited to announce the release of a major update to our Digital Asset Management evaluation research stream ... Continue Reading

Ask the software sommelier

Added By Theresa Regli on 17-May-2010

I've recently been using the analogy of selecting wine to describe the challenges of selecting software. To my delight, the analogy is catching on - to the point that within the Twitterverse, I've been dubbed a ... Continue Reading

Scoring spreadsheets, the bane of my life

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

Workshop in NYC - Selecting the best DAM for you

Added By Theresa Regli on 21-Apr-2010

In a little less than a month, I'll be doing a half-day workshop in New York City as part of the annual Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Conference ... Continue Reading

The willful ignorance of business users

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

Pardon the ECM Interruption

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

Think you can you stump these consultants?

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

Pathbreaking research focuses on Human Cloud

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

Hiring a UK/Europe Account Executive

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

Selecting Wine and Software

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

Core application versus corollary applications in DAM

Added By Theresa Regli on 29-Mar-2010

I've noticed while acting as an advisor on several recent digital asset management procurements that there is often confusion on the part of buyers as to the difference among what I call the "three tiers" of DAM end-user applications ... Continue Reading

Join me at Internet World in London

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

Girl Power

Added By Theresa Regli on 25-Mar-2010

Apparently Wednesday, March 24th was the second annual Ada Lovelace Day, which celebrates women's contributions to technology. I confess complete blindness to this fact, until I was kindly mentioned ... Continue Reading

Finding the best vendor means treating bidders right

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

What makes your project successful in the real world

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

Holistic Information Management

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

What to look for when evaluating WCM and DAM workflow services

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

Evaluating vendor proposals - Kill your spreadsheets

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

Two new Advisory Papers for enterprise technology selection teams

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

What is Content Management?

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

Which is better for you - platforms or products

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

Open Source is not always cheaper

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Feb-2010

On the document-management shortlist of a mid sized publishing firm this month lay four bidders: a specialist incumbent, two household name vendors (IBM & Microsoft), and an open source option ... Continue Reading

Not Buying Into Open Text and the Power of Three

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

SAP, EMC, and Open Text - Who cares?

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

Keeping it Real

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

The value of the AS IS in Information Management Change

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Feb-2010

One of the founding principals of business process change is the concept of understanding and defining the current "As Is" situation, before analyzing it and then constructing an ideal "To Be" situation. ... Continue Reading

EMC plus Fatwire - the DAM perspective

Added By Kas Thomas on 19-Feb-2010

The other shoe has finally dropped in the EMC-FatWire saga. EMC announced in will acquire a (minority) stake in Mineola, NY-based FatWire, who will remain one of few privately held pure-play WCM vendors ... Continue Reading

Welcome to the Real Story Group

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

Big changes coming at CMS Watch

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

ROI calculations are a joke

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

Non-disclosure is a non-starter

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

The trouble with DAM and your corporate laptops

Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Feb-2010

The net-wide discussion over the Apple iPad's lack of Adobe Flash support has brought back a few memories for me: ones in which DAM tools with sexy Flash interfaces can't run in large, corporate locked-down environments ... Continue Reading

Vendor Tip: perform some basic research before disqualifying prospects

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

Seeking UK/Europe Sales and Customer Supt Exec

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

Performance is a requirement, too

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

DAM moves - Tata acquires BT Mosaic

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Jan-2010

Today the Indian IT services giant Tata announced that it was to acquire BT Mosaic. It's an acquisition worth examining in a little more detail, since we will likely see more of the same over the coming years. ... Continue Reading

Have you considered the V in DAM?

Added By Kas Thomas on 18-Jan-2010

Last week, I blogged about the increasing trend toward verticalization in the Search & Information Access space. As you may know if you've been reading our Digital & Media Asset Management Research ... Continue Reading

How did our 2009 predictions fare?

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

2010 Content Technology Predictions

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

Open Text delays DAM v7 (again)

Added By Theresa Regli on 9-Dec-2009

I was first given a preview of Open Text's new Flash-based DAM user interface over a year ago, in the fall of 2008. The release, at the time, was "imminent"; I even put a preview screen shot of the new version in the 2009 edition of our Digital & Media Asset Management research. Fourteen months later, customers of the product formerly known as Artesia are still waiting for v7.0 ... Continue Reading

Content Technology Vendor Map - 2010

Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Dec-2009

We've just updated our "Content Technology Vendor Map" for 2010 ... Continue Reading

Day sets up shop in Boston (where tech firms go to be acquired?)

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

WCM and DAM in Denmark - J. Boye conference wrap up

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

Is the SharePoint bubble going to burst?

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

See CMS Watch in Denmark

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

Extensis, Canto, and turbulence at Autonomy

Added By Theresa Regli on 7-Oct-2009

Today we release an update to our Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2009. ... Continue Reading

The vendor-analyst echo chamber game

Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Sep-2009

Had a nice chat the other day with an old acquaintance who previously held two interesting jobs: as a practice lead at a major technology analyst firm, as well as heading up "analyst relations" for a major vendor. This is not uncommon; there's a revolving door between staff at vendors and analyst firms ... Continue Reading

Tail wagging the ECM dog

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Sep-2009

Sometimes a secondary service or subsystem in a content management platform can gum everything up.  This came to mind when a couple of our advisory clients ran into trouble with some non-core -- but important -- services. ... Continue Reading

Making sense of ECM acronyms

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Sep-2009

One of the challenges we face at CMS Watch is the continuing need to bridge the gap between those new to ECM, and the deep industry insider knowledge that our subscribers seek ... Continue Reading

DAM vendors vs. marketing agencies -- understanding the difference

Added By Theresa Regli on 14-Sep-2009

I'm currently advising two Fortune Global 1000 companies on a vendor short list for their upcoming digital asset management procurement ... Continue Reading

Thoughts on the Future of Content Management

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

Adding structure to DAM and ECM

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 27-Aug-2009

"Unstructured Data" is the fancy term we use to refer to "Content." Historically we've employed this term to differentiate "structured" data (sitting in neat rows and columns in a database) from complex files that typically need attached metadata for essential context ... Continue Reading

Cost of storage for ECM & DAM: Part 2

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 24-Aug-2009

I recently posted a piece regarding storage costs for ECM that seemed to garner some interest, so I thought I might just flesh out some of the assumptions I made in that a little further ... Continue Reading

Storage costs for ECM and DAM Systems

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Aug-2009

We have had an interesting internal discussion at CMS Watch the past few days, surrounding the cost of storage for content technology systems. It is a discussion that too few buyers have before embarking on costly ... Continue Reading

Day reports sunny results for 1H2009

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

Are we reaching the limits of UI buildout?

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

What Wimbledon and vendor selection have in common

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

The Coming Acronym Crisis

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

In DAM, Flashy does not always mean Flex

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

At Henry Stewart DAM Symposium: A Grey New World

Added By Kas Thomas on 2-Jun-2009

One of the most striking trends underway in the DAM space right now (indications of which were abundantly present in the exhibitor booths at this year's Henry Stewart DAM Symposium in New York) is the rush toward Adobe Flex-based client interfaces ... Continue Reading

DAM suppliers make big promises for H2 2009

Added By Theresa Regli on 1-Jun-2009

Today we release a major update to our Digital & Media Asset Management research, in tandem with the Henry Stewart DAM Symposium in New York City ... Continue Reading

When customers are unreasonable

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

Why Open Text bought Vignette -- the real story

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

Adobe: an elephant in the DAM room?

Added By Kas Thomas on 4-May-2009

Usually, as an analyst, I'm on the receiving side of briefings, but yesterday I gave one to a CMS Watch subscriber wanting to know more about ... Continue Reading

Join us at Internet World UK

Added By Theresa Regli on 24-Apr-2009

When I think of Earls Court, London, the first thing that comes to mind for me is the many Led Zeppelin concerts I grew up listening to that were recorded in this hallowed venue ... Continue Reading

A match made in Benelux: SDL Tridion and ADAM ink a deal

Added By Theresa Regli on 21-Apr-2009

WCM and DAM systems have historically been on two separate sides of the dance floor ... Continue Reading

Open Text goes to the (eye) candy store

Added By Kas Thomas on 10-Apr-2009

Until Open Text came along and bought the company (in a deal announced earlier this week), Toronto-based Vizible Corporation was not exactly (ahem...) visible.... ... Continue Reading

Why watch The Masters on your television?

Added By Theresa Regli on 9-Apr-2009

The golf fans among us have already tuned into The Masters -- but not on our televisions... ... Continue Reading

We live in interesting DAM times

Added By Kas Thomas on 8-Apr-2009

We've been talking to a number of DAM vendors lately, and it's exciting to see so much new R&D and "capability buildout" going on at a time when activity in certain other spaces is (by comparison) rather slack, due to cost-cutting and other factors. ... Continue Reading

Software versions - how strange the change from major to minor

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

DAM vendor Ancept under new ownership

Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Mar-2009

Minnesota-based Ancept Media Server, LLC (one of the DAM ;vendors covered in our Digital and Media Asset Management Report) has been acquired by ViewCast Corporation ... Continue Reading

Content Therapy Is Back!

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

New subscription options

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 5-Mar-2009

Based on feedback from you, we've modified our subscription options a bit ... Continue Reading

2009 Content Technology Vendor Map

Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Mar-2009

Today we updated our semi-famous "subway map" for 2009 ... Continue Reading

Will Lawsuits Impact the DAM Market?

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 2-Mar-2009

At last week's Henry Stewart Briefing on Digital Asset Management last week in Toronto, there was an prevailing theme ... Continue Reading

Discussing DAM in Toronto and Dallas

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 23-Feb-2009

Later this week in Toronto and next month in Dallas, I'll be sharing some of our latest research from ... Continue Reading

Software vendors need to understand how the web really works

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

When your vendor tells you to shut up

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

Picking the right supplier in a recession

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Feb-2009

"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" -- so the saying goes ... Continue Reading

The case against Flex-based application UIs

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

Day tries pay-as-you-go licensing

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

Is your vendor becoming a fine young cannibal?

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

What next for Interwoven?

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

CMS Watch is hiring...

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Jan-2009

We're looking to hire a full-time Marketing Associate ... Continue Reading

Autonomy acquires Interwoven - A first take

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Jan-2009

Today Autonomy announced that they intend to buy Interwoven. ... Continue Reading

DAM vs. WCM - do you really understand the difference?

Added By Theresa Regli on 14-Jan-2009

I've heard too many people say DAM is "kind of like WCM" or "just like document management, but for pictures." ... Continue Reading

Web Self Service - trend in 2009?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-Jan-2009

Customer-driven, web self-service will surely become a dominant theme for 2009. ... Continue Reading

EMC celebrates banner year by slashing jobs

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Jan-2009

Quarterly results have never been so closely scrutinized as they are right now. ... Continue Reading

DAM in 2009: enterprise, workgroup, and nothing in between....

Added By Theresa Regli on 5-Jan-2009

Today we release our Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2009. In this new edition, we've greatly expanded our coverage of Minnesota, USA-based MediaBeacon... ... Continue Reading

Who loves the incumbent vendor?

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

Get smart and prepare for the impending DAM explosion

Added By Theresa Regli on 18-Dec-2008

Today we release our half-day education course about Digital & Media Asset Management, or DAM... ... Continue Reading

Looking for more E in SE

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

Looking ahead to 2009 -- and evaluating 2008

Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Dec-2008

Today we released our annual predictions for 2009 ... Continue Reading

The FeedRoom acquires DAM vendor ClearStory

Added By Theresa Regli on 8-Dec-2008

Digital Asset Management vendor ClearStory announced last week that they've been acquired by The FeedRoom, a web video management software and services provider ... Continue Reading

When public agencies select software

Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Nov-2008

I recently had a wide-ranging interview with Government Computer News ... Continue Reading

Let's meet at AIIM Expo 2009

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

Interwoven in a bullish mood

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

DAM vendor ClearStory to be acquired?

Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Nov-2008

At recent Henry Stewart DAM conferences a couple of ClearStory Systems customers mentioned to me that ... Continue Reading

Cloud computing - Ellison rants, others reap

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

DAM vendors engage in analyst payola, then dissemble about it, too

Added By Theresa Regli on 5-Nov-2008

Recently a buyer of our Digital & Media Asset Management Report contacted me with a few questions about vendors they're considering ... Continue Reading

When the project honeymoon ends

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

Talking about Digital Asset Management in Chicago and LA

Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Oct-2008

We've really sensed over the last year that more and more enterprises are taking a closer look at Digital Asset Management (DAM) technology ... Continue Reading

In praise of user group meetings

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

Meet us in Utrecht next week

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

A new (and wearable) Content Technologies Subway Map

Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Jul-2008

A new season brings an updated vendor map: ... Continue Reading

DAM industry rollup

Added By Theresa Regli on 17-Jul-2008

I recently wrote an article for DOCUMENT Magazine summarizing the state of the digital asset management industry ... Continue Reading

MAM by any other name: more alphabet soup

Added By Theresa Regli on 16-Jul-2008

Last week I wrote about Open Text's acquisition of eMotion, and may have added to the confusion over the alphabet soup of DAM, MAM, and MOM ... Continue Reading

Narrowcasting to your feed aggregator

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

Open Text continues acquisition trail, gobbling up MAM vendor

Added By Theresa Regli on 11-Jul-2008

On the heels of my colleague Alan's report of Open Text's purchase of Spicer, the next sign along the company's acquisition trail was posted yesterday with the acquisition of media asset management vendor eMotion ... Continue Reading

Bam, WAM, thank you, DAM!

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

PDF now has a standard home, but whither XMP?

Added By Kas Thomas on 7-Jul-2008

Until a few days ago, Adobe's Portable Document Format was an open format in name only. The specification was freely available, to be sure, but PDF's development and direction remained firmly ... Continue Reading

DAM vendors coming up short

Added By Theresa Regli on 25-Jun-2008

As the Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Symposium kicks off in London, we comment in today's press release on a few areas where DAM vendors are coming up short ... Continue Reading

North Plains and Interwoven offer DAM SaaS service -- or do they?

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

CMS Watch Competition Winner

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

Open source and Digital Asset Management

Added By Tony Byrne on 22-May-2008

Joseph Bachana recently posted in these pages an excellent article on the Digital Asset Management (DAM) marketplace. I disagreed somewhat, though, ... Continue Reading

Adobe woos Sun recruits to the Flex cause

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

Vendor criticism of CMS Watch

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

DAM's growing pains

Added By Kas Thomas on 15-May-2008

Digital Asset Management may not constitute a huge slice of the ECM pie, but it's a fast-growing slice ... Continue Reading

Thoughts on how to do your DAM homework

Added By Kas Thomas on 13-May-2008

Yesterday at the Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management & Marketing Operations Symposium in New York, I sat in on a DAM "best practices" talk given by onetime independent consultant Linda Tadic ... Continue Reading

Now more than ever, reading is not believing

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

DAM: Always the bridesmaid, never the bride?

Added By Theresa Regli on 12-May-2008

As the Henry Stewart DAM Conference kicks off in New York City today, CMS Watch has quite a bit to say about the state of the DAM industry ... Continue Reading

Routing around potholes in the DAM road

Added By Kas Thomas on 8-May-2008

In an earlier post, prompted by my recent involvement as co-lead analyst on The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008, I commented on a few areas in which DAM and MAM vendors seem ... Continue Reading

Announcing The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008

Added By Theresa Regli on 7-May-2008

I'm thrilled to announce the launch of The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008 ... Continue Reading

What WCM can learn from DAM

Added By Kas Thomas on 26-Apr-2008

Having spent a great deal of time in recent weeks talking to vendors, consultants, and customers in the Digital Asset Management space (in preparing for the upcoming release of our Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008) ... Continue Reading

Don't DAM the little guys

Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Jul-2007

At last week's Henry Stewart DAM Symposium in London, a lively crowd joined my talk on vendor-neutral approaches to selecting content technologies. The themes and challenges in the DAM ("digital asset management") space aren't much different from those in the larger ECM arena: ... Continue Reading

Should your enterprise give a DAM?

Added By Theresa Regli on 13-Jun-2007

On June 28 & 29th, join me in London for the Henry Stewart Symposium on Digital Asset Management, Workflow Automation, and Marketing Efficiency & Effectiveness. I'll be speaking about scenario-based product selection. ... Continue Reading

OpenText Buys Artesia: Mainstreaming DAM?

Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Aug-2004

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