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Adobe circa 2012 - The digital marketing perspective

Added By Irina Guseva on 2-Apr-2012

Like a complex Photoshop file, Adobe is a multi-layered company. This fact was highlighted ever so vividly at the recent Adobe Digital Marketing summit held in the Omniture-land in Utah. Adobe is known for its many recent acquisitions (Omniture, Day Software, Context Optional/Efficient Frontier, Nitobi, Auditude, Demdex, etc.), as well as organic growth.

Think of these acquisitions as Photoshop layers and filters that go into the composition of a very complex picture of the product known as the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, which incorporates approximately 17 SaaS-based distinct products ... Continue Reading

Lexmark and the marriage of ECM and DOM

Added By Apoorv Durga on 18-Nov-2011

Perceptive Software, which was acquired by Lexmark a while back, has announced a new product for Document Output Management (DOM) called ModusOne. It is a separate product that can work with or without ImageNow, Perceptive's Document Management tool that we evaluate in our Document Management Report ... Continue Reading

Adobe MAX 2011 impressions: WEM and DAM out of focus

Added By Irina Guseva on 13-Oct-2011

Last week I attended the Adobe MAX annual customer conference in Los Angeles. My primary interest revolved around WCM/WEM and DAM, and checking out how the acquisitions of Day Software and Omniture are getting integrated. To remind you, we cover Adobe’s CQ5 product in our WCM evaluations, and CQ DAM and Scene7 in our DAM report. ... Continue Reading

SDL Tridion and Sitecore CMS - so close yet so far away...

Added By Irina Guseva on 6-Sep-2011

At the end of summer in the northern hemisphere (which hopefully was full of fun and adventures for you), I'll take you on a little surf through the waves of the recently released version 20.2 of our WCM vendor evaluation research. We have a new entrant to the "Upper-range Platform" vendor category: Sitecore ... Continue Reading

Are acquisitions of Day, FatWire, Autonomy shrinking your shortlist?

Added By Apoorv Durga on 19-Aug-2011

When a vendor acquires another, there is always some amount of uncertainty since employees as well as customers become anxious about the platform's future. In the last few months, we have seen many acquisitions in the marketplaces we cover. Among the major ones ... Continue Reading

The marriage of Content Management and DAM

Added By Irina Guseva on 1-Aug-2011

Some vendors we cover in the Digital & Media Asset Management Report are in a committed, pure DAM/MAM relationship with their customers. Others – like Nuxeo, Adobe CQ and VYRE – which we have just updated with new evaluations – tend to favor a more open relationship incorporating aspects of WCM, ECM and DAM. ... Continue Reading

Best Practices for eForms

Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-Jul-2011

Content Acquisition (or Ingestion) is an important step in many business processes. A form is a common way to acquire content or information for these business processes. Forms are everywhere - you fill up a form to buy an insurance policy, apply for a visa or request a new home loan. ... Continue Reading

First look at Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform

Added By Irina Guseva on 6-Jul-2011

The word adobe traces its roots to spoken Arabic (from Coptic), where it was al tub, or "the brick." Adobe's recently announced Digital Enterprise Platform (ADEP) can be described as a tub of bricks for building tablet, mobile, web, and desktop applications. The "tub" in this case is CRX -- the repository layer that Adobe took over via the Day Software acquisition. ... Continue Reading

WCM Evaluation Research Updates

Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Jun-2011

Last week we released a significant update to our comparative Web Content Management vendor reviews. There's a lot to conclude here about what's going on in the marketplace, but for now, I'll just summarize some of the new info from our revised evaluations ... Continue Reading

From WCM to WEM and CEM - a change of heart?

Added By Irina Guseva on 27-Apr-2011

Those of you under the impression that Web Engagement Management (WEM) and Customer Experience Management (CEM) are mere buzzwords may want to pause and observe. I am not saying that I am in favor of creating more acronyms ... Continue Reading

CQ5 WCM development skills are hot -- and scarce

Added By Irina Guseva on 6-Apr-2011

I've been getting a lot of emails and LinkedIn inmails lately with words “Day CQ” and “CQ5” confettied all over them. Logical conclusion: implementation skills for (now) Adobe's CQ5 Web CMS are in growing demand ... 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

Updates to Web CMS vendor evaluations, plus Kentico

Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Apr-2010

Last week we updated several WCM vendor evaluations, including ... Continue Reading

The return of web-based IDEs

Added By Apoorv Durga on 15-Mar-2010

Developers know that Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) go a long way in improving productivity and shortening time to market. Some vendors in the marketplaces we cover ship with their own proprietary IDEs, while many others use a plugin to (or otherwise extend) the popular Eclipse or Visual Studio IDEs ... Continue Reading

Performance is a requirement, too

Added By Kas Thomas on 20-Jan-2010

Performance testing is a notoriously difficult undertaking. So much so, in fact, that it is sometimes not done at all, or only done when a performance problem arises in production, making some sort of investigation unavoidable ... Continue Reading

Day sets up shop in Boston (where tech firms go to be acquired?)

Added By Kas Thomas on 24-Nov-2009

The greater Boston area, no stranger to the Web CMS world (with companies like Percussion, PaperThin, Telerik US, and Refresh Software already based in the area), is about to add yet another content management mainstay to its denizens: Switzerland-based Day Software ... Continue Reading

Day reports sunny results for 1H2009

Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Jul-2009

It's always encouraging to hear that, despite the dour financial environment in which we live, there are companies making money in the WCM space ... Continue Reading

The Coming Acronym Crisis

Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Jun-2009

As I talk to people in the content-technology industry (if I may call it that), I'm struck by a common thread that has begun to emerge in conversations involving roadmaps and futures ... Continue Reading

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

Day releases not-so-sunny financial results

Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Feb-2009

CMS and DAM vendor Day Software (traded on the Swiss bourse as DAYN) has released financial results for FY 2008 ... Continue Reading

Day tries pay-as-you-go licensing

Added By Kas Thomas on 28-Jan-2009

SaaS is all the rage these days. It's the one "IT& trend for 2009" no pundit has missed. But the reality is that ... Continue Reading

Day CQ 5 -- more than a pretty face(lift)

Added By Kas Thomas on 13-Nov-2008

Day Software's David Nuescheler (CTO) and Kevin Cochrane (the company's new CMO) were in town last week, and we had an interesting lunchtime conversation, much of it centered on the long-awaited Version 5 ... Continue Reading