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Blog posts about Web Site Management

Apoorv Durga

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

Tony Byrne

A Requiem for RedDot

Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Jun-2011

Like old soldiers, sometimes old Web CMS tools don't die outright....they just fade away.  Case in point: the product formerly known as RedDot, which became OpenText Web Solutions, but is now re-branded "OpenText Web Site Management."  RedDot boasts a long and storied past. However, it started falling behind its competitors even before ... Continue Reading

Irina Guseva

Mid-market WCM products continue to chug along in 2011

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

Apoorv Durga

Alternatives for converging website production and delivery

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Google - unsuitable for the enterprise

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

Adriaan Bloem

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

Kas Thomas

Would EMC really buy FatWire?

Added By Kas Thomas on 31-Jan-2010

From time to time, rumors surface about Web CMS vendor FatWire being up for purchase. Also, from time to time, we hear rumors about EMC Corporation being ready to acquire this or that content technology. Now there's a rumor going around fusing the two: that EMC might acquire FatWire ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

SAP to resell Livelink

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Oct-2009

There is a some noise being made today about SAP's decision to become a reseller of Open Text's ECM products. Call me Mr Miserable, but I'm not sure that its really a game changer. SAP and Open Text have been involved in a long, torturous courtship, that so far has failed to result in a marriage ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Beware the Open Text synergizer bunny

Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Sep-2009

ECM mega-vendor Open Text has a successful track record of acquiring smaller competitors, then absorbing their revenue streams and selectively improving certain "winners" going forward. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

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

Kas Thomas

Open Text buys Vignette: Investment or impulse?

Added By Kas Thomas on 6-May-2009

The business world is full of tumult these days, and times like these are known to give rise to strange bedpartners. But few would have expected the kind of union announced by Open Text just a few hours ago ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Decoupled Web CMS vendors have not disappeared

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

Tony Byrne

On RedDot and Balance

Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Apr-2008

Last week we received an e-mail from an IT staffer at an outfit that is looking to buy a Web CMS tool, with PaperThin's CommonSpot and RedDot CMS (part of the extended Open Text family) under particular consideration ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

RedDot's Purple Monkey and the ECM/WCM divide

Added By Tony Byrne on 26-Apr-2007

Open Text's Web CMS subsidiary RedDot has just chosen Chicago-based interactive agency Purple Monkey Studios, Inc. as their "Partner of the Year." Purple Monkey can certainly boast a decent client list and the obligatory cool home page. To me, this news more than perhaps anything else exemplifies the gulf between enterprise content management (ECM) and web content management (WCM) ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Rethinking RedDot's usability

Added By Tony Byrne on 28-Mar-2007

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Tony Byrne

Open Text clarifies plans for RedDot CMS

Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Oct-2006

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Tony Byrne

Where does your CMS end and your Portal begin?

Added By Tony Byrne on 28-Aug-2006

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Tony Byrne

Hummingbird ekes 10 more cents out of Open Text

Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Aug-2006

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Janus Boye

RedDot and Synkron begin move to .NET

Added By Janus Boye on 4-Feb-2006

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Tony Byrne

CMS Idol re-runs available

Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Dec-2005

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Tony Byrne

The case against canned RFI/RFPs

Added By Tony Byrne on 6-Dec-2005

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Janus Boye

Talking about upgrades: RedDot releases new versions

Added By Janus Boye on 26-Oct-2005

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Tony Byrne

Hummingbird to Acquire RedDot Solutions

Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Jun-2005

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Tony Byrne

RedDot passes "summit" milestone

Added By Tony Byrne on 13-May-2005

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