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Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-May-2013
In an earlier post on this topic, I mentioned that for Cloud File-Sharing (CFS) Platforms to become a part of the enterprise layer -- as opposed to just serving as stand-alone tools like most of them do now -- they would need to improve in a number of areas. One of the key areas where almost all the tools need improvement is in the area of reporting and compliance ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 25-Apr-2013
Salesforce launched a new service called "Social.com" as part of its Marketing Cloud offering. Social.com allows you to create ad campaigns for Facebook and Twitter. It actually came to Salesforce via its Buddy Media acquisition but Salesforce has re-launched it as a separately-branded produc ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Apr-2013
For most of the past decade, global enterprises have been rationalizing and professionalizing their web publishing operations, setting global standards, upgrading local talent across various regions, investing in better technology. All good.
But I'm perceiving a new twist on this trend, and I'd be interested to hear your take ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 23-Apr-2013
Vendor marketing pitches and case studies try to paint a rosy picture, but they too struggle with getting their own social software implementations to take-off ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 15-Apr-2013
The poster child of cloud-based file sharing services, Dropbox has announced this new service targeting enterprises. The service costs $795 per year for 5 users and includes 1 TB of storage space. Enterprise features include ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 15-Apr-2013
In our WCM selection advisory services, user security and entitlements continue to come up as tricky issues. These are certainly not new challenges, but vendors address them in different ways, and certainly customers vary in their requirements here. So to provide a little education, below I've excerpted bits of the front matter from ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Apr-2013
Well, RSG was granted a special pre-pre-brief into SharePoint 2016. The results may surprise you. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 18-Mar-2013
Some common arguments against cloud-based services in general -- and cloud-based file sharing services in particular -- revolve around the security implications of your files getting stored outside your firewall.
A typical argument goes like this ... 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 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 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 Theresa Regli on 21-Jan-2013
So with DAM systems still ranging from single-user desktop applications to full-blown enterprise software systems (though all vendors will tell you they're "enterprise grade," don't believe them), how do you know the difference? ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-Jan-2013
A key characteristic of anything "cloud" is elasticity and scalability. Technically, those two terms mean different things (that's another post), but often they're used interchangeably. In any case, for many enterprise customers, it gives the impression that with employing cloud-based applications, scaling up no longer becomes a problem.
Wrong ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Jan-2013
As Marketing Automation tools become more sophisticated, enterprises acquire the confidence to use them for increasingly larger and more frequent campaigns. Yet, we know from talking to customers that many Marketing Automation platforms will groan a bit at scale ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 12-Dec-2012
It is useful to make a distinction between "implementation" scale and "usage" scale in the social software context - software factors and softer factors respectively, if you will. And the latter are often harder to crack ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 12-Dec-2012
Today, I believe that as enterprises transition more to SaaS-based tools for many processes, this role will be increasingly played by cloud-based file-sharing (CFS) tools. In a cloud-connected enterprise, file-sharing platforms will become comparatively easier to integrate and potentially serve as a repository for a variety of other, SaaS-based tools ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Dec-2012
Each year around this time, all the Real Story Group analysts get together to partake in some crystal-ball gazing about where the content technology market will head in the next year.
Here are our collective predictions for 2013: ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 20-Nov-2012
Portal technology still plays a key role in many business scenarios, and as a result, portal vendors have not been sitting idle. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 19-Nov-2012
Media organizations find that hardware power increases exponentially while video content grows even more explosively ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Nov-2012
There's a growing misconception that cloud is an end in itself, rather than a means to end. That never bodes well ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 27-Sep-2012
Organizations seeking to enable employees to access enterprise applications (HR, Intranet, Collaboration, ERP, etc.) via mobile devices must grapple with two broad alternatives: ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 25-Sep-2012
Following on from Tony's opening missive on scalability in the modern enterprise, let's turn to the challenge of enterprise search at scale ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 13-Sep-2012
"Scale" is a tricky concept in technology. In the world of packaged applications of the kind we evaluate, people will say scale when talking about very different things, like feature breadth and scenario diversity (scope), functional depth and richness (complexity), or transaction volumes and traffic intensity (usage).
Since all those meanings are relevant, notions of scale can start to become vague and generic, and take on a marketing-speak quality. Still, I believe the term has value ... Continue Reading
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