Portals and Content Integration blog posts

What's next for the mobile Internet in India

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

When a SharePoint Cloud is all puffery

Added By Shawn Shell on 25-Aug-2010

As you may have noticed by the slew of announcements from Redmond, Microsoft has placed increasing emphasis on "cloud" computing ... 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

IBM and Coremetrics: A Second Look

Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Aug-2010

After discussions with several Coremetrics customers, we've taken a second look at IBM's acquisition of the web analytics vendor. To quote ... 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

Microsoft and the CMIS standard - What it means for you

Added By Apoorv Durga on 11-Aug-2010

In a new Advisory Briefing for our SharePoint and ECM subscribers, we evaluate how the CMIS connector targets different use cases where SharePoint needs to inter-operate or co-exist with other applications. ... 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

JackBe's App Store is interesting but not new

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

CoreMedia integrates with SAP NetWeaver Portal

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

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

Justifying the cost of e-government

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

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

Office 2010 and SharePoint 2007 - Not Perfect Together

Added By Shawn Shell on 7-Jul-2010

While perhaps not the use case that Microsoft envisioned, it's a definite possibility: firms continuing to run their SharePoint 2007 applications and upgrading their desktops to Office 2010 ... Continue Reading

Red Hat Releases JBoss EPP 5

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

Mashup technology pros and cons

Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Jun-2010

Yesterday, we officially released our updated Portal vendor evaluations, but under a new title, ": Portals and Content Integration." ... 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

Update to Portals Research

Added By Apoorv Durga on 22-Jun-2010

We've just released an update to our Portals evaluation research. Along with updates to the individual portal vendor evaluations, we have expanded the scope of our research to include a new category of related solutions that enable you to integrate and aggregate content from multiple sources ... Continue Reading

First take on IBM acquiring Coremetrics

Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Jun-2010

IBM announced yesterday that it's acquiring web analytics vendor Coremetrics (dang: just after we last updated our vendor map...) ... 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

Adapting Your Content Management Platform for Mobile Delivery

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