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Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Feb-2012
OK, so it's not exactly Desperate Housewives or Survivor or Social Business when it comes to juicy topics, but it's important stuff. And in the rush for organizations to leap aboard the latest 2.0 bandwagon, they often overlook substantial efficiency gains or kick them to the side ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Feb-2012
Late last year we marked our tenth year in business, which seemed like a good time to reflect on what has changed across the landscape of content, web, and collaboration technologies -- and what has not ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 8-Feb-2012
The open source eXo portal platform released their latest version 3.5 last week. eXo platform is a "portal-like" offering that we cover in our Portals and Content Integration report. It's based on the GateIn open source portal container that eXo co-developed with Red Hat JBoss. ... Continue Reading
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 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Jan-2012
We've just released an advisory paper, "Are cloud-based file-sharing services too immature for the enterprise?” ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Jan-2012
There is of course much interest these days in both the cloud and more general usage of hosted/off-premise environments for managing electronic documents. Indeed it's an area that we have been receiving many more inquiries from our advisory service customers over this past year. Yet despite the interest, one area I find few buyers investigate thoroughly enough is that of file encryption ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Jan-2012
We have recently published our Document Management - ECM Market Analysis for 2012, and as a where-is-the-marketplace-headed snapshot, I think it's an interesting one. I have been writing these since the late 1990s and it's one of several analyst tasks that I really look forward to ... 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 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Nov-2011
Recently I fulfilled a lifelong ambition to be an actor (minor parts - small films) and I finally came to understand the meaning of the thespian question, "What is my motivation?"
It is an important question that we probably don't ask enough, and buyers might want to ask the same of ECM (Enterprise Content Management) suppliers. Yes, seriously ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 18-Nov-2011
Perceptive Software, which was acquired by Lexmark a while back, has announced a new product for Document Output Management (DOM) called ModusOne. It is a separate product that can work with or without ImageNow, Perceptive's Document Management tool that we evaluate in our Document Management Report ... 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 Stephanie Lemieux on 16-Nov-2011
You the customer can choose from among several fully-featured taxonomy management tools, yet each vendor has tackled the problem of managing vocabularies from a different angle. So how do you figure out which one is right for your context? ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Nov-2011
We've just published an advisory paper for our ECM and SharePoint subscribers (non subscribers can purchase it here) analyzing the implications of large enterprise buyers considering Box.Net alongside Microsoft SharePoint ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-Nov-2011
Last week we ran the SharePoint Symposium in Washington DC and kicked off the two-day event with a question to the audience. What single word best describes "SharePoint" to you? The preponderance of negative answers thrown out surprised us ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Oct-2011
Yesterday we learned that Lexmark, best know for its printers, had acquired Netherlands-based BPM (Business Process Management) vendor Pallas-Athena. This follows in the path of Lexmark's acquisition of Perceptive Software, a document management company (evaluated in our Document Management reviews) ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 14-Oct-2011
Not long ago, many were scoffing at Box as being just another California start-up foolishly comparing themselves to the SharePoint behemoth. ... Continue Reading
Added By 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 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
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