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Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-Apr-2012
This is the most common question that my colleagues and I encounter from our customers who are in the process of evaluating options for building a web property.
The reason is not difficult to find. ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 12-Oct-2011
On the heels of the Microsoft event, the timing of the SharePoint Symposium being held in Washington DC in just three weeks (November 2-3, 2011) could not be better. ... 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 28-Sep-2011
Next Wednesday I will be hosting a free SharePoint-themed webinar. My intent is to look at SharePoint in 2011, its victories to date and its challenges ahead. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 29-Jun-2011
By now you know that Microsoft SharePoint has a 3-year development cycle. Three years is not a long time for highly process-oriented functionality, like many types of document management applications. However, a long development cycle is a significant shortcoming in areas like Collaboration/Social and Web Content Management, where Redmond's circa-2009 codebase feels increasingly out of step ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 27-Jun-2011
In our recent 20.1 release of the WCM Report, we’ve updated evaluations of several CMS vendors in the .NET arena, including DotNetNuke, Ektron, Kentico, SharePoint. The mid-market product tier is a bit like the crowded Grand Central station: ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 21-Jun-2011
We've said this before on this blog, in various ways. But sometimes, the simple analogies seem to work the best: if you think of SharePoint, think of it as a Swiss Army Knife. That sounds great, doesn't it? It's like the multi-tool of content technologies. Imagine a major vendor and integrators turning up at dinner to explain how great their Swiss Army Knife is for any purpose, and yes, it's excellent to carve your food with, too. Why go with just a knife, if you can have a whole range of additional functionality in one system? ... 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 Tony Byrne on 20-Apr-2011
As a technology customer, sometimes you should worry less that a software vendor is blowing smoke, and perhaps a bit more that the vendor's consulting partners may be leading you down the garden path. Some consultants bank their entire job -- or even their whole career -- on a specific product, and will sometimes defend it to the last ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 11-Apr-2011
As I've noted on this blog many times before, a lot of Google Search Appliance's "features" are actually outside-of-the-box, rather than out-of-the-box. That can present an unpleasant surprise to many Google customers. But ironically, it's also a great advantage to anyone who wants to use ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-Apr-2011
As always, the specific answer depends on your particular requirements. Nevertheless, based on our customer research and recent product CMS selection experience, we can generalize that SharePoint remains poorly suited for most external web publishing environments ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Apr-2011
In the early days of Web Content Management, many customers tried to employ the same technology -- and often the same physical infrastructure -- for publishing both their intranet and public websites. During most of the past decade, the trend has been to separate these efforts ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Feb-2011
On the 28th and 29th March, my colleague Jarrod Gingras and I will be hosting the inaugural SharePoint Strategy Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 16-Feb-2011
One of the questions I hear time and again is: "We're running SharePoint. Should we get a Google Appliance for search?" This was the case with SharePoint 2007, and it hasn't changed with 2010 ... 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 2-Nov-2010
If you employ SharePoint on your intranet, should you also use it publish your public websites? The debate rages, and there is no universal answer. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Aug-2010
However, make no mistake: FAST may be a lot less expensive, but it's certainly not going to come cheap. Not in the least bit because implementing it right will still be an expert's job. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Jul-2010
With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has strongly promoted the platform's upgraded content management capabilities. Now that the hype is died down, and there are production implementations in the field, it's possible to take a harder look ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Jun-2010
This week we updated a slew of Web Content Management vendor evaluations. Over the past two quarters we've touched every vendor review in one way or another, so this latest update officially represents ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-May-2010
I have been in the document management business for over 20 years now, and though on the one hand ECM and Document Management technology has moved into the mainstream, in other regards it remains in the dark ages ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 3-May-2010
Microsoft's closest software partners whose core competency lies in knowing the innards of SharePoint have largely rejected the platform as an internet publishing service ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Nov-2009
Today we release some new ECM research. It focuses (as does much of our broader research) on the so called mid-market. ‘Mid’ is a terribly misleading term ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-Nov-2009
As subscribers who received our recent advisory paper know, there is plenty to be excited about in SP2010, especially if you are a part of the SharePoint channel of resellers, consultants, developers, and system integrators. But over the past few weeks I have been noticing something of a shadow side to this excitement ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 13-Oct-2009
The latest Microsoft SharePoint conference is nearly here. Microsoft has been saving all of the biggest announcements about the upcoming 2010 release ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Oct-2009
Is Google Sites a SharePoint killer? Well, to be fair, I haven't heard the exact term this past week, but the innuendo was clearly there ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Sep-2009
The past year or so IBM has been promoting the concept of "Agile ECM" in its marketing for FileNet P8. It is an interesting concept both at a marketing and implementation level regardless of whether P8 itself really fits such a label itself ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 27-Aug-2009
One of my favorite technology terms is "Shadow IT." The term is not employed often enough, and its role in undermining good information management should be more widely broadcast, because Shadow IT represents a plague on content management ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Aug-2009
We have had an interesting internal discussion at CMS Watch the past few days, surrounding the cost of storage for content technology systems. It is a discussion that too few buyers have before embarking on costly ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Jun-2009
In a clip on YouTube, an interviewer asks passersby in Times Square what a browser is.The surprising result: many think it's a search engine ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 4-Jun-2009
Earlier this week EMC announced that it was providing more extensive development support for Documentum. This is something we had to comment on, as in our various product evaluations we have long called out EMC Documentum for providing relatively poor support ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 21-May-2009
Perhaps it doesn't strike you as a surprise, but Microsoft just launched the new SharePoint product site using SharePoint 2007 ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Mar-2009
Spring is here, and, as in Autumn, this means new products released and new version numbers ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 9-Dec-2008
If you're one of the many industry observers who's wondered why Microsoft hasn't created a decent blogging platform ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Dec-2008
Talking about SharePoint in Copenhagen today and yesterday reminded me of an interesting point ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Sep-2008
Today I'm proud to announce the release of the 2009 edition of The ECM Suites Report ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Jul-2008
We've critiqued SharePoint's rather awkward web publishing capabilities in different evaluation reports (on Web CMS tools and SharePoint itself). But we also see customers who seek to deploy SharePoint for their public websites, either because ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Jun-2008
After participating in the first day of the Gilbane San Francisco conference yesterday, here some short observations in no particular order ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Jun-2008
People frequently ask me about where their Web Publishing efforts should end and Social Software begin. Like so many things, the answer is ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 23-May-2008
I just returned from IIR's Enterprise-3 Conference in San Diego. It's an interesting conference for consultant and end-user alike, I think, because it brought together people interested in a variety of related topics ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 3-May-2008
When budget-building time comes up, many technology customers face the interesting question of how much money to put aside for new software licenses ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Apr-2008
Our new SharePoint Report explains how one of the core challenges with the platform -- dating from inception through to MOSS 2007 -- is that ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 27-Feb-2008
While Microsoft continues to push SharePoint 2007 as the answer to nearly all information management problems, it seems that not all local Microsoft offices and the partners have the same inflated expectations ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Feb-2008
In our Web CMS Report, we call out MOSS 2007 for having "perhaps the highest fee structure in its class," ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 23-Jan-2008
In a refreshing blog entry from last week, Microsoft evangelist Jon Udell considered .aspx harmful ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Nov-2007
As readers of the SharePoint chapters of our Web CMS Report and Enterprise Search Report know, there are many good online and book-length resources about MOSS 2007 in general, but almost all of them ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 21-Oct-2007
In a well-timed PR move, Microsoft is now trying to push the hype around MOSS 2007 to new heights with a connector from wiki vendor Atlassian to SharePoint. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 13-Jul-2007
Earlier this week I visited a national membership association in wonderful Copenhagen, Denmark. The association had accepted a seemingly very nice offer from Microsoft: free licenses to MOSS 2007 to support a revamped public website. Now with the implementation well underway, problems are beginning to surface ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 25-Apr-2007
Today we announced research that finds Microsoft Office SharePoint Server ("MOSS") 2007 coming up a bit short when it comes to traditional web content management ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Mar-2007
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Added By Janus Boye on 13-Dec-2006
A few very early adopters (LloydsTSB, Corgi and Ministry of Sound) have gone live with public websites using the new MS SharePoint 2007. Unlike the old SharePoint 2003 ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Oct-2006
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