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Blog posts about Higher Ed

Tony Byrne

Do You Really Want a Power-User Interface for Your WCM Platform?

Added By Tony Byrne on 13-Jun-2013

Web CMS vendors frequently tout their systems' usability, but in fact a big evolution towards complexity has been underway in the WCM world for the past several years.  That's right: user interfaces for editors and marketers are getting more complicated rather simpler ... Continue Reading

Irina Guseva

Updated WCXM Evaluations of Adobe, CoreMedia, CrownPeak, e-Spirit, eZ Systems, Limelight Networks, and OmniUpdate

Added By Irina Guseva on 30-Jan-2013

As we release version 21.4 of our Web Content and Experience Management (WCXM) research, I wanted to give you a quick rundown of the latest developments of seven vendors we included in this update ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

With DAM, do museums still need Collections Management Systems?

Added By Theresa Regli on 18-Jan-2013

Museums both large and small have been among the earliest adopters of Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems. As curators of tangible, real objects -- ones that are often ancient, sacred, or one-of-a-kind -- museum DAM teams have a uniquely curatorial approach to their digital assets ... Continue Reading

Kashyap Kompella

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Case Management and the Lexmark acquisition of BPM vendor Pallas Athena

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

Sanjeev Gupta

Hannon Hill and TerminalFour - similar but different

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

Tony Byrne

Web CMS Evaluations - OpenText, Oracle, Tridion, Sitecore, Joomla - and more

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

The technology buying process - vertical expertise

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 27-May-2011

One of the most common questions an enterprise technology buyer will ask of a vendor or supplier is, "What do you know about our business?" It's the kind of question that one gets asked in job interviews too, and just like that personal situation, how the question gets answered can have a huge impact on the result ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Is Immersive Collaboration Software Ready for Prime Time?

Added By Tony Byrne on 6-May-2011

The initially meteoric rise of Second Life gave visibility to a (mostly) new crop of vendors looking to apply "immersive" or "virtual" experiences to enterprise collaboration ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Content Management for Higher Education

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Hyland acquires Hershey Software

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 1-Sep-2010

Ok you probably did a double take when you saw that Hyland had acquired Hershey's. Sadly the world of chocolate and ECM are not about to merge. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Day 3 UK Roadshow - Savvy Buyers

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Jun-2010

Theme of the day? Difficult to say really, but if I were to choose two it would be the content chaos and archiving ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Day 2 UK Roadshow - SharePoint skepticism

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

Day 2 of the UK AIIM Roadshow and we are here at the Reebok Stadium Bolton (home of Bolton Wanderers football club). Theme of today amongst the attendees seems to be ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

The case for Case Management - and Business Intelligence

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Jun-2010

Both IBM and now EMC have recently touted their improved Case Management capabilities, so I thought it timely to take a look at this area in a little more detail ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

EMC Documentum for your Case Management?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-May-2010

One of the more interesting and surprising things to emerge from last week's EMC World event in Boston was that the core Documentum Content Server has been repositioned into the xCP (Intelligent Case Management) product stack. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Records Management on the rise?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Apr-2010

I just finished reading an excellent article in Hedge Funds Review called "Records management in the new regulatory environment." It's piece that echoes much the same message I've been preaching for years now: ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Self Service Document Management

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Apr-2010

When trying to explain what Document Management is to friends and family curious about my work, I often give ask them to think about the last time they visited the doctor or a hospital ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Is there a best CMS tool for your industry?

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

eXo merges with JBoss - a game changer?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Jun-2009

In the past week two open source portal initiatives decided to merge efforts: going forward eXo will now be a part of the Red Hat JBoss Portal ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Making sense of CMS Watch....

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-Jun-2009

At CMS Watch we evaluate an awful lot of products, and making sense of all this research can be a challenge. ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Still no resolution for Serena Collage customers

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

Janus Boye

Is uPortal a good fit for self-service?

Added By Janus Boye on 30-Jul-2008

In an interesting blog posting by Andrew Petro, Senior Software Engineer at Unicon, he mentions that uPortal is commonly successfully adopted as a self-service portal platform. By contrast, our research finds uPortal is an unlikely fit for e-business and self-service portals ... Continue Reading

Janus Boye

uPortal 3: The long wait is over for a major release

Added By Janus Boye on 30-Apr-2008

When JA-SIG announced Version 3.0 of uPortal in mid-April, it marked the ending of a very long development cycle ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Special challenges of managing school websites

Added By Tony Byrne on 7-Apr-2008

Today I spent a delightful morning with 75 web managers from "K-12" (i.e., primary and secondary) school districts around the U.S. ... Continue Reading

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