Blog posts about Content Manager Enterprise Edition

What the SDL acquisition of Alterian means for customers

Added By Irina Guseva on 6-Dec-2011

It took a bit of financial courting, but we have another market match: the struggling Alterian has agreed to sell out to SDL for an all-cash, 110p-a-share offer for a total sum of £68.4 million ... Continue Reading

Web CMS comparison update

Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Feb-2011

This month's update to our Web CMS Report evaluations offers the latest critiques of nine web content management vendors: ... Continue Reading

Alterian Content Manager: which one?

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 12-Jan-2011

Nearly all the vendors we cover have become quite good at marketing themselves. But if you dig deeper, you'll find many differences have gotten wallpapered over. The challenging bit for us is trying to explain what lies underneath. Take Alterian, and its Alterian Content Manager product ... 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

Alterian drops Immediacy

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 4-Feb-2010

Software vendor Alterian has cleared up which Web CMS software it wants to try to sell you in the future. In short, all of their alphabet soups going forward will taste like Morello ... Continue Reading

Goodbye Morello, Hello Alterian CME

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 21-Aug-2009

Contrary to what you'd might have heard, in the Web CMS space, products rarely disappear without a trace. However, product names do often vanish in acquisitions. So as a public service, if you're reading this because you were searching for either Mediasurface Morello or Immediacy ... Continue Reading

Are we reaching the limits of UI buildout?

Added By Kas Thomas on 28-Jul-2009

As you can imagine, in the course of covering more than 200 software products, my colleagues and I get to see and touch a lot of different user interfaces, and one thing we've all noticed lately is the trend toward larger and larger interfaces ... 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

Mediasurface acquired by Alterian

Added By Tony Byrne on 18-May-2008

We recently pointed out that UK-based Web CMS vendor Mediasurface was being courted, and now the suitor has revealed themselves: ... Continue Reading

Mediasurface for sale?

Added By Tony Byrne on 6-May-2008

I've been hearing various rumors recently about mid-market Web CMS vendors up for sale. If true, ... Continue Reading

The challenge of multi-site web content management

Added By Tony Byrne on 6-Sep-2007

Our customers tell us they are increasingly managing multiple websites. They typically want a platform that recognizes their (inevitably) unique approaches to centralization and distributed management. Many Web CMS tools can now "clone" websites, but this usually entails just copying a set of content, structural elements, vocabularies, and templates -- it does not address the problem of ongoing management of those assets ... Continue Reading

Mediasurface and The Three Bears

Added By Tony Byrne on 26-Jun-2007

UK-based Web CMS vendor Mediasurface announced today its intention to acquire smaller UK competitor Immediacy. This follows a 2005 acquisition of a hosted Dutch solution that Mediasurface renamed "Pepperio," to target small businesses. I wasn't sanguine at the time about one vendor selling two products and I don't see how three offerings makes the company any stronger, even if it gets bigger ... Continue Reading

Decoupling content management services revisited

Added By Apoorv Durga on 15-Jan-2007

Major consolidation of UK gov't websites

Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jan-2007

The UK government CIO has just announced an audacious plan to collapse more than 551 (out of 951) government websites down to 26. The other 400 will come under review too. Doubtless this will save on hardware and software, and perhaps fulfill the long-desired (but rarely realized) dream of Web CMS as a shared service. ... Continue Reading