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Added By Tony Byrne on 27-Feb-2012
Every now and then a software company just up and dies. It doesn't happen often, and usually the tell-tale warning signs have been accumulating for years. As you the customer assess your current and potential crop of technology suppliers, it's worth reviewing autopsy reports for lessons learned.
The latest victim in the Web Content & Experience Management (WCXM) space is Refresh Software, who finally called it quits ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Nov-2011
We've just released a minor update to our Web CMS Report, which evaluates 42 major products from around the globe. Version 20.3 includes updated reviews of ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Oct-2011
Below is an excerpt from an interview I had with with Australian journalist David Walker. I thought it worth re-publishing here too. In a wide ranging chat undertaken whilst I was grumpy and jetlagged we discussed amongst other things Interwoven (now Autonomy soon to be HP), Vignette (OpenText), and Microsoft ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Sep-2011
This past week HP fired their CEO Leo Apotheker, making him the third CEO in a row to part with HP prematurely. But of all the departures this one one is the least surprising by far. His announcement that he was to buy Autonomy for a staggering $10.3 Billion -- far more than anyone else figured the firm was worth -- and spin of its market leading PC division was surely the most spectacular act of self-immolation in a long time ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Sep-2011
Since HP decided to buy Autonomy for just over $10 Billion dollars, there has been a lot of discussion over the acquisitions that Autonomy itself made over the years to expand its portfolio of products and grow its revenues. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Aug-2011
I cannot say that the acquisition by HP of search giant Autonomy bodes well. Taking the parties' past histories into account, this simply doesn't seem to be a good long term match. Hence my advice is ... Continue Reading
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
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
Added By Apoorv Durga on 15-Dec-2010
Of late, many WCM as well as Portal vendors are touting their capabilities for more closely aligning content management and presentation management. Frankly, I wonder what took them so long. After all, what good is content if it cannot be delivered and consumed? In my opinion ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 26-Aug-2010
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management 2010 is out, accompanied by vendors' public crowing and private tears, depending on their placement. You can get a copy of the MQ from Sitecore, who just obtained a ticket on the magic elevator ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Aug-2010
There's a lot of mysticism shrouding Autonomy's mega-search offering, "IDOL." Not in the least bit because every piece of software that is acquired by the vendor is either "plugged into," "powered by," or "integrated with" IDOL. Supposedly, ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Jul-2010
I'll agree with mega-vendor Autonomy on one key point: Search technology is really important. But is it so important that search functionality should dominate your choice in a content management system? ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-May-2010
So onto number three in our family tree mini-series, Autonomy. As a Brit that lives in the US, I find Autonomy an interesting vendor to watch ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Mar-2010
Last month we updated several WCM vendor evaluations, including ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010
For years now Google has played fast and loose with information confidentiality and privacy issues. As if further proof were needed ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 27-Jan-2010
Earlier this week I had an advisory call with one of our gold subscribers who's in the process of creating a short list of vendors for Web Content Management. A US-based health care company ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Dec-2009
As 2009 comes to a close, let's take a quick look back at the Web CMS ("WCM") marketplace. (We'll offer some separate predictions for 2010 early next week.) I think the most important development was actually a non-event: for the thirteenth year in row, the quite fragmented WCM marketplace did not "consolidate" in any meaningful way. And this, I believe, is a good thing for you the customer ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-Nov-2009
The much-awaited version 7 of Interwoven TeamSite finally seems to have been released by Autonomy. While we will cover the details shortly for our Web Content Management subscribers, the key changes come in a new ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 7-Oct-2009
In the past few weeks, two high-profile people have departed established content management vendor empires for upstart players ... Continue Reading
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
Added By Kas Thomas on 23-Jan-2009
The announcement yesterday that Autonomy would buy Interwoven (a deal that should close in the second quarter of this year) has a number of interesting ramifications ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 7-Jan-2009
After cruising along as $200m/yr companies through middle part of this decade, Vignette and Interwoven appear to be headed in opposite directions ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Nov-2008
Yesterday I attended the Interwoven annual Analyst Day in New York. It was an interesting day in many respects ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Oct-2008
Web CMS vendor Day Software announced earlier this week that Kevin Cochrane had signed on as Chief Marketing Officer ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Sep-2008
Over the past two years, Web Content Management vendors have fallen over themselves to provide more interactive services on the front ends of websites ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Jul-2008
Vignette and Interwoven have released their second-quarter 2008 results, and it's a study in contrasts ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jul-2008
Gartner's recent "MarketScope for Web Content Management" has predictably garnered a lot of attention from vendors happy with their position in the ratings chart. I have a mixed reaction ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Oct-2007
Last week, Interwoven acquired hosted "site optimization " supplier, Optimost. Optimost works by taking HTML snippet variants that you wish to test ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Oct-2007
This week I led a seminar in Rome on Web Content Management organized by our friends Giovanni and Francesca at Technology Transfer. Both during the seminar sessions and in the ever-important espresso breaks, a key theme that I had noted on other recent visits re-emerged: European web teams are struggling to meet contemporary needs with outdated "enterprise-level" technologies ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Feb-2007
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Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Feb-2005
One of Interwoven's biggest competitors in the legal market is Hummingbird. And what is Hummingbird's approach? According to a written statement from Hummingbird, "...we have been successful in maintaining our market share by up-selling additional components of Hummingbird Enterprise into our installed base." There you have it folks, "ECM" in a nutshell. To be fair, when it comes to web content management, the tables often turn on Interwoven -- as cheaper, simpler solutions nip away at the company's behemoth TeamSite product... ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Oct-2004
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