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APIs Are Not Lego

Added By Matt Mullen on 23-Apr-2012

As a child I loved Lego. And when I say "as a child", I really mean "I still love Lego, but don't want to admit it". Recently a large new shopping complex opened not far from where I live, bringing with it a new Lego shop. In the centre of the shop are large perspex bins containing all the requisite parts to construct your own, bespoke "minifig" (or as non Lego fans might prefer "Lego people"). There's an hour of my life that I'm not going to get back ... Continue Reading

Start Your Content Migration Planning Early

Added By Apoorv Durga on 23-Apr-2012

Many IT projects require some sort of content migration, but we often find that many customers give scant attention to migration planning. It's almost always considered an activity that can wait until the end ... Continue Reading

Free Webinar - How Cloud, Mobile, and Social Will Change the World of Information Management

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 20-Apr-2012

Cloud, Mobile, and Social are three of the most common buzzwords in today's IT lexicon. The words are here to stay, but will the underlying concepts really bring about fundamental changes to the way we manage information? Or, are they more hype than substance? ... Continue Reading

Can OneCloud from Box Bring Cloud and Mobile Together?

Added By Apoorv Durga on 2-Apr-2012

Well, that's a buzzword-compliant question...but an important one nonetheless.

Consider that:

• Mobile has been a big driver of cloud
• Tablets (iPad in particular) have become increasingly prevalent within enterprises
• Enterprises are paying more attention to cloud and mobile

Since Box wants to become more enterprise-y ... Continue Reading

Big Data: Does Variety, Volume, and Velocity really deliver Veracity?

Added By Matt Mullen on 12-Mar-2012

Having been rather cynical on the subject of Big Data, it was reassuring to see a full-house at a recent Computer Weekly "CW500 Club" gathering dedicated to the subject.  Nevertheless, I came away with more questions than answers about the value of this topic right now for business users. ... Continue Reading

Portal, CMS, DM, WCM, DAM or something else?

Added By Apoorv Durga on 5-Mar-2012

Customers often face considerable overlaps in features among different types of content technologies. For example, an enterprise portal system can be used to build websites, but a web content management system can sometimes deliver portal-like services. This can all get very confusing!

I am conducting a free webinar this Wednesday that will help you make sense of different content technologies ... Continue Reading

UK Government Cloudstore - not yet ready for prime time

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Feb-2012

The IT press here in the UK have heralded the remarkable launch of the government's G-Cloud Cloudstore. The timing was certainly impressive: In just four short weeks this online services directory and procurement application went from contract to launch.

Yet I remain a bit puzzled as to why the service has gone live at all, since ... Continue Reading

Move from EMC Documentum to Oracle WebCenter Content for Free? Not...

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Feb-2012

It is becoming quite the fad these days in the world of ECM (Enterprise Content Management) to make dramatic and seemingly generous gestures to liberate buyers locked into legacy systems ... Continue Reading

The joy of mailroom automation

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

Three lessons across ten years of content technologies

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

eXo Platform quietly goes for Cloud and Mobile

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

Alfresco Version 4 is Buzzword Compliant

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

WebSphere Portal, Coremedia or EMC Documentum?

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

What the IBM Worklight Acquisition Means for WebSphere Customers

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

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

Are cloud-based file-sharing services too immature for the enterprise?

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

File Encryption Compromises in the Cloud

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

ECM Market Analysis Report 2012

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

Key Decisions to Make When You Decide to Go Mobile

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

Always on the lookout for great analysts

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

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