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Alan Pelz-Sharpe

EMC Documentum vs IBM FileNet vs Oracle WebCenter Content?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Nov-2011

Recently I fulfilled a lifelong ambition to be an actor (minor parts - small films) and I finally came to understand the meaning of the thespian question, "What is my motivation?"

It is an important question that we probably don't ask enough, and buyers might want to ask the same of ECM (Enterprise Content Management) suppliers. Yes, seriously ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Oracle and Collaboration - take five

Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Oct-2011

Last week at OracleWorld the company announced that it was renaming and re-focusing its WebCenter "Connect" offering to "Oracle Social Network." A new emphasis on social networking services and middleware integration could prove promising, but real business value today comes from effective collaboration efforts that deliver quick business benefits out of the box, with a social kicker downstream. Oracle is a bit late to this party ... Continue Reading

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

Apoorv Durga

Customer perspective on Oracle acquiring FatWire

Added By Apoorv Durga on 21-Jun-2011

Oracle today announced its acquisition of FatWire. With this, I'm officially giving up counting how many "Portal-type" offerings Oracle now owns. ... 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

Apoorv Durga

Oracle acquires ATG

Added By Apoorv Durga on 8-Nov-2010

Last week, Oracle announced its acquisition of Art Technology Group (ATG) for $ 1 Billion. At this price, it might appear smaller than other, better-known acquisitions such as those of Sun Microsystems ($ 7.4 B), BEA Systems ($ 8.5 B), and PeopleSoft ($ 10.5 B in 2004), yet it's an important acquisition, nevertheless ... 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

Apoorv Durga

Many Portal Products Getting Refreshed

Added By Apoorv Durga on 2-Feb-2010

Last week we released some significant updates to our Enterprise Portals Research. The latest research reflects significant changes among new versions of several portal platforms, as well as additional details for all the products we cover ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

New Enterprise Portals Research

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 28-Jan-2010

Yesterday we launched our most recent Enterprise Portals Research. This report critically evaluates 13 portal vendors and products, which we break up into 2 categories: ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Oracle Sun Update

Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Jan-2010

While Steve Jobs was introducing Apple's iPad, Oracle was explaining its own approach to hybrid hardware/software offerings. Oracle yesterday announced that it has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

eXo merges with JBoss - a game changer?

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

In the past week two open source portal initiatives decided to merge efforts: going forward eXo will now be a part of the Red Hat JBoss Portal ... 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

Adriaan Bloem

Oracle proves the value of static web content delivery

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 20-Apr-2009

An early joke on Twitter about the Oracle/SUN acquisition: "Oracle buys Sun just to see if Twitter can handle the resulting noise" ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Oracle buys Sun

Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Apr-2009

Well, I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was. Here's the Sun press release. At one level, the move fits a definite pattern: ... Continue Reading

Janus Boye

Oracle redresses WebLogic Portal

Added By Janus Boye on 11-Nov-2008

Last week Oracle released WebLogic Portal 10.3 ... Continue Reading

Janus Boye

More portal news from Oracle OpenWorld 2008

Added By Janus Boye on 25-Sep-2008

In case you were not among the 43,000 delegates this year at Oracle OpenWorld 2008, Oracle did reveal interesting details on ... Continue Reading

Janus Boye

Questioning Oracle's Portal Leadership

Added By Janus Boye on 22-Sep-2008

Today finds me in San Francisco for the annual >Oracle OpenWorld mega-conference. ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Oracle doesn't eat its own blog food

Added By Apoorv Durga on 22-Jul-2008

Via numerous acquisitions, Oracle has built up a formidable collection of products that they sell for Portals, Content Management, Web 2.0, and other content technologies ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

When portal platforms aren't true SOA

Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Jul-2008

In our Enterprise Portals Report evaluations, we point out that vendors who tightly couple their portal offerings to other pieces of their underlying platforms can't call themselves truly Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) -ready ... Continue Reading

Janus Boye

Oracle trims portals in consolidation strategy

Added By Janus Boye on 7-Jul-2008

Almost 6 months after Oracle announced a definitive agreement to acquire BEA, the company definitively stated its direction on the future of its ... Continue Reading

Janus Boye

Oracle erases criticism from their wiki

Added By Janus Boye on 2-Jun-2008

It might come as little surprise that Oracle is very actively moderating their Oracle wiki, but a recent blog entry reminded me just how important culture is to wiki adoption ... Continue Reading

Janus Boye

Oracle customers only need 1 enterprise portal

Added By Janus Boye on 26-May-2008

At a closing panel of a European Commission internal IT conference in Brussels last week, Andrew Sutherland, Oracle EMEA VP Technology repeated the frequently-issued official statement ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

BEA and Oracle in Chicago

Added By Tony Byrne on 16-May-2008

I just spent a couple of days in Chicago at BEA's (oops, Oracle's) "Participate" user conference. This is where AquaLogic (née Plumtree) Portal/Collaboration/BPM customers come to meet without any pesky WebLogic enthusiasts around ... Continue Reading

Janus Boye

BEA's last release of WebLogic Portal

Added By Janus Boye on 4-Apr-2008

In early March BEA announced the release of WebLogic Portal 10.2. The release was a bit delayed ... Continue Reading

 

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