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Added By Kashyap Kompella on 14-Mar-2013
Innovation champions often wonder whether and why they need additional tools for managing innovation, when they have already invested in collaboration and social software. That's a valid question ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-Mar-2013
Despite many predictions for the demise of enterprise portal technology, this class of technology has not gone away. In fact, portal and portal-like capabilities ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 11-Mar-2013
Last week Oracle announced integration of multiple social media services that it has acquired in recent times. Oracle calls it Social Relationship Management Suite and it consists of Collective Intellect, Involver and Vitrue ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 8-Mar-2013
Every year, we come up with a spot-check of the E2.0 marketplace and I'm happy to share this chart from our 2013 edition ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 6-Mar-2013
Most recently, Awareness focused on “Social Marketing Hub” software to help enterprises manage their presence on sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
However, of late, we’ve noticed a few strange things that should set off warning bells for potential customers ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 5-Mar-2013
While I still find myself incapable of giving a satisfying answer to those asking the question, “What’s the best enterprise search engine?” -- in the same vein with “What’s the best CMS?” -- I have to admit that there’s one that stands out based on its activity and progress in the past few years, particularly when it comes to application search. And the name to the search engine is ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 4-Mar-2013
Every year, we review and analyze the overall status of the Web Content and Experience Management industry and summarize it in the Market Analysis and Trends paper, which is accompanied by what we call Reality Check charts ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 27-Feb-2013
Salesforce.com has a gap in their marketing cloud in the key area of Marketing Automation (MA). In general this is not a bad thing, since they integrate with several other MA vendors instead ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 27-Feb-2013
The purpose of this chart — and the vendor-by-vendor analysis provided to our subscribers via our new 2013 DAM Market Analysis briefing — is to provide you with some key indicators to recognize and weigh risks ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 27-Feb-2013
As you know, we on a regular basis consult and advise many clients – large and small – in many verticals. I, personally, believe that a Web Content Management System is not a vertical application. There are occasional exceptions, but overall Web CMS is a horizontal business application, and any CMS can be potentially used by any type of business, depending on what the actual needs are. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 26-Feb-2013
Earlier this week we released another update to our Brand & Digital Asset Management Report -- with the latest evaluations of two vendors about whom we get frequent questions: North Plains and Adobe ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 25-Feb-2013
Every so often, though, it is important to take a step back from the details and look at the more macro-trends that are facing today's business and technology decision-makers ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 22-Feb-2013
In a webinar I led earlier this week, I talked about the latest developments in WCXM (Web Content & Experience Management) marketplace and trends. Not surprisingly, one of the topics hit a nerve with many and spurred a slew of follow-up questions. The hot trend was around how SaaS/Cloud Web CMS vendors continue to struggle, with rare exceptions, despite broader organizational adoption of cloud-based technologies in the enterprise ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 21-Feb-2013
Where's the fine print? You can creatively define a category that eliminates everyone else and preside over a parallel universe in which only you reside. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 18-Feb-2013
Last week, we released Version 10 of our Enteprise Portals and Content Integration evaluation research ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 18-Feb-2013
We continue to expand the breadth of our in-depth evaluations of Media Asset Management vendors. This week we’ve added one more vendor to our MAM evaluations line up: GlobeCast Netia. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 13-Feb-2013
Some advice: always start with the proposition that a vendor's "suite" is no better integrated than if you had selected separate, standalone tools from different suppliers. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 13-Feb-2013
Still, I always have to caution customers when they immediately think the 3rd-party offering via an agency or integrator will prove much easier than going directly to a vendor ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Feb-2013
Security is a touchy subject in the Web CMS world in general and very touchy in particular among open source WCXM projects, since open source platforms are frequently accused (often unfairly) of being inherently insecure by dint of their more open development models.
So it's been interesting to watch some Plone adherents contrast their platform's security profile to that of some major competitors ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Feb-2013
In both the 2007 and 2010 SharePoint releases, Microsoft heavily touted its web content and experience management (WCXM) improvements, typically referring to them as state-of-the-art. In reality, basic WCXM capabilities were "shoehorned" into SharePoint’s document-collaboration framework.
Ultimately, this meant that WCXM in SharePoint has never proven as functional, elegant, or cost-effective as ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 6-Feb-2013
Salesforce.com has acquired EntropySoft, a French content integration and migration vendor. Some observers have speculated this is a way for Salesforce to enter the Enterprise Content Management marketplace. I think a closer look will reveal a different rationale ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 6-Feb-2013
In a recent advisory call, a Real Story Group client posed her incumbent Web CMS replacement dilemma in a slightly unconventional way: “Do you think I should settle for Mr. Right Now, or should I wait for Mr. Right?” she asked me ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 1-Feb-2013
As we finalize our series on scalability and related issues in enterprise information management technologies, lets have a look at what kinds of scalability challenges you may encounter in the world of Web Content & Experience Management (WCXM), a.k.a., Web CMS ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 1-Feb-2013
Savvy marketers are adding co-creation and crowdsourcing to their toolkits as consumers are tired of one-way marketing monologues ... Continue Reading
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