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Theresa Regli

Akamai, Limelight, or EdgeCast? Considerations when Selecting CDNs and OVPs

Added By Theresa Regli on 7-Feb-2012

This week we publish an Advisory Paper for our Digital & Media Asset Management research subscribers about key considerations when selecting a Content Delivery Network or an Online Video Platform. ... 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

Oracle-Endeca, HP-Autonomy, and Coveo follow the customer

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Nov-2011

Enterprise Search engines can be divided neatly into two categories: those optimized for website search and those optimized for searching across internal information silos. Today the gap between the two is opening ever wider ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Oracle acquires Endeca - our first take....

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Oct-2011

Oracle has announced its intention to buy Endeca, a major independent purveyor of Enterprise Search technology. It's not in the least bit surprising as Autonomy (arguably Endeca's biggest rival) had been in talks with Oracle prior to their acquisition by HP, and from that alone it was clear that Oracle was interested in acquiring advanced search technology ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Faking a CMS? You're Not Alone

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 7-Feb-2011

If you agree with the adage that enterprises need a new Web CMS every three years, then it's easy to assume that in the year 2011, most organizations would be working on their third or fourth Web CMS implementation. The real story is that some of the largest enterprises -- including some of the biggest names in healthcare, retail, and banking -- are still trying to move to their first real CMS ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Oracle acquires ATG

Added By Apoorv Durga on 8-Nov-2010

Last week, Oracle announced its acquisition of Art Technology Group (ATG) for $ 1 Billion. At this price, it might appear smaller than other, better-known acquisitions such as those of Sun Microsystems ($ 7.4 B), BEA Systems ($ 8.5 B), and PeopleSoft ($ 10.5 B in 2004), yet it's an important acquisition, nevertheless ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Dynamic Publishing Systems -- A Technical Overview

Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-Sep-2010

Dynamic Publishing Systems manage the assembly of reusable components for publishing, along with the delivery of aggregated content to multiple personalized channels. Some examples of Dynamic Publishing are: ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

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

Adriaan Bloem

Exalead acquired by Dassault Systemes

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 9-Jun-2010

Dassault Systèmes, a major product lifecycle management (PLM) vendor, has announced the acquisition of enterprise search vendor Exalead. Which of course leads to the two usual questions with any acquisition ... 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

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

Adriaan Bloem

SDL moving into targeted marketing and e-commerce

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Jan-2010

For those vendors with solid profits, it's a buyer's market. SDL, parent company of such products as Tridion, Trados, Trisoft, and XySoft, announced the acquisition of Dutch e-commerce vendor Fredhopper today. ... 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

Will you buy more Skittles today?

Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Mar-2009

Skittles -- a brand in the Mars candy conglomerate -- has set off a small tornado in social media land today by nearly completely turning over its website to Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

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

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