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Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Jun-2013
Yesterday we released an update to our Web Content & Experience Management (WCM) vendor evaluation research with an emphasis on the .NET mid-market tier, including fresh takes for our 20-page reviews of ... Continue Reading
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
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 5-Jun-2013
We'd love to hear from you if you’ve been involved in your enterprise mobility initiatives. If you’re an end user at the receiving end of such initiatives, we’d be very interested in that too. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Jun-2013
Acquisitions generally bring turbulence to existing customers, and as subscribers to our Digital Marketing Technology research know, ExactTarget licensees have already been on a bit of a roller-coaster ride. That said, this is one of those cases where I believe the acquisition is on balance a positive thing for the market as a whole. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Jun-2013
Adobe is nothing if not a good marketer of software, and the company understands in particular how to talk to creatives, editors, and marketers, the three key business stakeholders in any web content management effort. Also, analysts and media make a habit of fawning over the company. As a result, Adobe CQ has a tendency to land on a lot of enterprise short lists for CMS selection, including frequently when it doesn't belong. So, let's pause for a moment and consider just a few of the manifold reasons why Adobe CQ might not be a good fit for your organization ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-May-2013
Last night, the Drupal Association confirmed media reports that the Drupal.org site was hacked, with passwords and user registration information potentially compromised ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 23-May-2013
Updates to Harris Invenio, North Plains Telescope and OpenText Media Management incorporate recent market developments and additional "voice of the customer" ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-May-2013
People often ask us advice on the best conferences for web and experience management technologies and practices. One consistent event is the Gilbane Conference, now in its eleventh year. This December Gilbane is partnering with InfoToday ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-May-2013
In an earlier post on this topic, I mentioned that for Cloud File-Sharing (CFS) Platforms to become a part of the enterprise layer -- as opposed to just serving as stand-alone tools like most of them do now -- they would need to improve in a number of areas. One of the key areas where almost all the tools need improvement is in the area of reporting and compliance ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 7-May-2013
The Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Research stream now evaluates 25 of the key collaboration/social vendors. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 6-May-2013
Last month, marketing automation software company Marketo, one of the vendors we evaluate in our Digital Marketing Technology stream, filed an S-1 registration, which is one of the first major steps towards an IPO. Along the way, many details about Marketo's business have emerged publicly for the first time. Here are some key things for enterprise marketing technology buyers to note ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 25-Apr-2013
Salesforce launched a new service called "Social.com" as part of its Marketing Cloud offering. Social.com allows you to create ad campaigns for Facebook and Twitter. It actually came to Salesforce via its Buddy Media acquisition but Salesforce has re-launched it as a separately-branded produc ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 25-Apr-2013
RSG subscribers and consulting clients often ask me for a recommendation on a content management conference. I have to admit: there aren’t that many CMS/WCM-focused shows left these days. But one of them is a three-day CMS Expo, set to commence on May 14 in Evanston, Illinois. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Apr-2013
For most of the past decade, global enterprises have been rationalizing and professionalizing their web publishing operations, setting global standards, upgrading local talent across various regions, investing in better technology. All good.
But I'm perceiving a new twist on this trend, and I'd be interested to hear your take ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 23-Apr-2013
Vendor marketing pitches and case studies try to paint a rosy picture, but they too struggle with getting their own social software implementations to take-off ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 22-Apr-2013
We've just published our 2013 edition of the Cloud File Sharing and Collaboration Marketplace Analysis. This advisory briefing looks at how the marketplace -- both in terms of products and vendors -- is evolving.
For 2013 we isolate three key trends: ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 17-Apr-2013
We’ve updated our evaluation of HP's Autonomy TeamSite CMS in version 21.5 of the Web Content and Experience Management (WCXM) evaluation research ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 15-Apr-2013
The poster child of cloud-based file sharing services, Dropbox has announced this new service targeting enterprises. The service costs $795 per year for 5 users and includes 1 TB of storage space. Enterprise features include ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 15-Apr-2013
In our WCM selection advisory services, user security and entitlements continue to come up as tricky issues. These are certainly not new challenges, but vendors address them in different ways, and certainly customers vary in their requirements here. So to provide a little education, below I've excerpted bits of the front matter from ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 12-Apr-2013
In 2012 Oracle acquired four companies relevant to our Digital Marketing Technology evaluations – Eloqua, Vitrue, Involver, and Collective Intellect. Of these ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Apr-2013
Well, RSG was granted a special pre-pre-brief into SharePoint 2016. The results may surprise you. ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 1-Apr-2013
All around the world, there are towns and even provinces built around corporations and companies. Where the streets have no names that are not connected to the company's founder, or his favorite pet. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 28-Mar-2013
April and May often seem like a long continuous road trip for The Real Story Group analyst team. We're out teaching and speaking at many of the industry's premier events, and meeting with our subscribers both near and far ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 25-Mar-2013
We summarize what 14 (10 broadcast focused plus 4 vendors with corporate video management products) key vendors are currently focusing on. ... Continue Reading
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