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Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-Feb-2012
Last week open source document management vendor Alfresco released Version 4 of its (commercially-supported) enterprise edition package. As we've come to expect from Alfresco, it's long on buzzwords and interesting new directions, but a bit short on functional niceties and architectural continuity ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 6-Feb-2012
I enjoyed an excellent day in Oxford last week speaking (and listening to the other speakers) at a CMS Expert Group round table event. Many topics of interest emerged, but the one that underlay several discussions -- and is also close to my heart -- was, "When is a Web Content Management project not a Web Content Management project?" ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Dec-2011
A skilled technology industry analyst is a rare bird: loves figuring out the innards of the tools, writes with depth and clarity, but can communicate effectively with business and IT leaders alike and coach them to make good decisions. We try to set a pretty high bar above and beyond that. If you've seen our work and think you'd be a good fit for a very demanding job, check out our ongoing analyst position openings ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 16-Nov-2011
Amidst all the talk of gloom and doom in Europe, we present an article where the words “Europe” and “Crisis” don’t have to be uttered in the same breath...
The Europe edition of the Creatasphere Digital Asset Management conference in the Hague brought together DAM customers, vendors, and consultants for a few days. Bringing this event to Europe is fitting ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Oct-2011
I have just spent two days at the inaugural European Enterprise Search Summit in London, and left with much to think and rant about. For I listened to a series of consultants and vendors telling the audience that enterprise search was an imperative ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 26-Oct-2011
And the second new entrant to our DAM/MAM research I want to introduce you to is Elvis DAM by Dutchsoftware. Random fact: I collect KLM Blue Delft miniature houses. Elvis joins my “Dutch vendors I review” collection. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Oct-2011
Yesterday we learned that Lexmark, best know for its printers, had acquired Netherlands-based BPM (Business Process Management) vendor Pallas-Athena. This follows in the path of Lexmark's acquisition of Perceptive Software, a document management company (evaluated in our Document Management reviews) ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Oct-2011
Next week I will be speaking at the inaugural Enterprise Search Europe event in London 24/25th October, organized by our good friends at InfoToday and Martin White of Intranet Focus Ltd.
My talk will provide an analysis of the current European Search Market, drawn from our extensive research in this area. If you are ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Sep-2011
This past week HP fired their CEO Leo Apotheker, making him the third CEO in a row to part with HP prematurely. But of all the departures this one one is the least surprising by far. His announcement that he was to buy Autonomy for a staggering $10.3 Billion -- far more than anyone else figured the firm was worth -- and spin of its market leading PC division was surely the most spectacular act of self-immolation in a long time ... Continue Reading
Added By Sanjeev Gupta on 16-Sep-2011
In our recently released Web Content Management Vendor Evaluations version 20.2 we've updated our research on two interesting vendors - Hannon Hill and TerminalFour ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Sep-2011
Since HP decided to buy Autonomy for just over $10 Billion dollars, there has been a lot of discussion over the acquisitions that Autonomy itself made over the years to expand its portfolio of products and grow its revenues. ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 6-Sep-2011
At the end of summer in the northern hemisphere (which hopefully was full of fun and adventures for you), I'll take you on a little surf through the waves of the recently released version 20.2 of our WCM vendor evaluation research. We have a new entrant to the "Upper-range Platform" vendor category: Sitecore ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 29-Aug-2011
Now that HP has announced its intent to buy Autonomy, the deal has come under a lot of scrutiny. One area though that few have yet to look at in detail -- and of particular interest to us as buyers' advocates -- is the whole topic of the IDOL search OEM business ... Continue Reading
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
Added By Theresa Regli on 10-Jun-2011
This week, in tandem with the Henry Stewart DAM conference in New York, we released an update to our Digital & Media Asset Management Research. New to our mid-market challengers category is the fastest growing DAM/MAM vendor in Europe, Austria-based celum. A key competitor for European players such as ADAM ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-May-2011
Vendors claim DOD5015 compliance, but few organizations actually use the systems in a DOD5015 compliant manner. In short it is an over-arching standard that demands a particularly complex and cumbersome working methodology ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 6-Apr-2011
I've been getting a lot of emails and LinkedIn inmails lately with words “Day CQ” and “CQ5” confettied all over them. Logical conclusion: implementation skills for (now) Adobe's CQ5 Web CMS are in growing demand ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 9-Feb-2011
Unlike most acquisitions in the Content Technology Marketplaces that we cover, this one actually seems like one in which there is not much overlap between two vendors' offerings. Antenna Software, a provider of mobile applications mainly for enterprises, acquired Volantis Systems, a company focused on delivering content to mobile browsers, concentrated more on the consumer Internet ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 3-Feb-2011
In the nearly three years since we first began in-depth research into the Digital & Media Asset Management market, I've been nothing short of fascinated by the process of uncovering more and more details about DAM vendors and their tools. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 29-Nov-2010
Most recently, Wired Magazine managed to reach the zenith with the article "The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet." Even though that's been discussed to death on the web (dead itself), allow me to spoof their title one last time. Just to make an entirely different point: whereas the mobile web is alive and kicking -- it's becoming nearly impossible to create mobile apps. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Nov-2010
As you may know, we make twelve predictions every year, and every year, we go back to try to assess our accuracy. So, let's see how we did with our 2010 predictions from last December ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 15-Nov-2010
Last month I held a webinar on recent developments in Intranet technologies. Many of you on the east side of the Atlantic Ocean let me know that the webinar timeslot wasn't convenient. So, we've scheduled a live reprise, for Wednesday, December 8, 2010 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM GMT. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Oct-2010
In the past week mega-vendor Autonomy saw its share price plummet by 20% -- a huge drop by anyone's standards. Much discussed in the financial press, it's also news that will be much discussed and publicized by Autonomy's competitors ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 29-Sep-2010
I find traveling and speaking at industry events a huge opportunity to engage with people and get a feel for what is really going on in the broader user community. And in my third trip to Brazil for the ECMShow I can report with confidence that a whole lot is going on here ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Sep-2010
In many end-user organizations, software support fees can make up the bulk of the yearly IT budget. This is hardly surprising when vendors typically like to calculate support contracts on the basis of ~20% of list pricing per annum, in perpetuity ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Sep-2010
On October 7th, the MobileMojo event in Utrecht (NL) will focus on mobile and social media. Those two areas touch on almost everything we cover, so I'm happy that both my colleague Theresa Regli and I will be attending ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-Sep-2010
Vamosa means "let's go" in Spanish, and sadly the UK-based content migration technology firm Vamosa is indeed going...away ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Sep-2010
Before speaking at industry events I often post a blog asking people to come along and say hello in person. In London a few months back James Lappin did just that, and though I knew of James as an Records Management (RM) expert by reputation, I had not actually met him in person ... 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 Theresa Regli on 2-Aug-2010
As a digital asset management analyst, one of the most common questions I get is, "Why doesn't Adobe have its own DAM?" ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 15-Jul-2010
If you're running a SAP NetWeaver Portal -- presumably since you've bought into SAPs infrastructure -- you may have discovered it's not the most ideal of platforms to actually publish content on ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Jul-2010
There is an outcry in the UK at the moment over the cost of building and maintaining Government websites. The figures released by the government relating to individual department website costs ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Jun-2010
Yesterday we released Version 5 of our Web Analytics evaluation research, with detailed evaluations of 22 vendors ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Jun-2010
In the UK today, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne will announce his emergency budget details. The one thing we know in advance is that this will contain some of the most severe cuts in recent history ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Jun-2010
One of the fun aspects of being an analyst is that people ask you to judge things. Though we refrain from categorizing "best" products and vendors, judging actual projects that exemplify good information management practice is always ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Jun-2010
So here we are in London, the last stop on the UK ECM roadshow. London is certainly the biggest and busiest of the four events, with more from the private sector than public sector at this one ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Jun-2010
Theme of the day? Difficult to say really, but if I were to choose two it would be the content chaos and archiving ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Jun-2010
Day 2 of the UK AIIM Roadshow and we are here at the Reebok Stadium Bolton (home of Bolton Wanderers football club). Theme of today amongst the attendees seems to be ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Jun-2010
Day One of the AIIM UK Roadshow started in Glasgow, a place I know pretty well. The sessions were followed by a long but stunningly beautiful drive down ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-Jun-2010
Just a note to say that I will be at each of upcoming AIIM UK Roadshow the week of the 14th June. I will be giving the closing keynote each day ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Jun-2010
Autonomy today announced that it has acquired CA's (formerly Computer Associates) Information Governance assets. These consist primarily of two main products ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 9-Jun-2010
Dassault Systèmes, a major product lifecycle management (PLM) vendor, has announced the acquisition of enterprise search vendor Exalead. Which of course leads to the two usual questions with any acquisition ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 7-Jun-2010
A few months ago, Google promised to make it easier for website visitors to opt out of tracking by sites that employ their free Google Analytics service. Their announced solution last week strikes me as a bit of grandstanding on one hand ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 5-May-2010
One of the events that I most looking forward to this year is the AIIM UK Roadshow - 14-17 June ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Apr-2010
I spent several days anxiously keeping track of the latest updates on the cloud hanging over Europe. It gave me plenty of time to ponder just how important on-line communications play a role in this nowadays. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 14-Apr-2010
Politics aside, I've always enjoyed watching the occasional French president's speech on television. Where U.S. presidents act, well, presidential, and the Queen will be regal, a French head of state is much more expansive. And nowadays, we can also compare another style: on-line presence ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 31-Mar-2010
As we continue to grow globally, we're looking for a motivated account exec in the UK or Europe ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Mar-2010
I almost had a heart attack today when I realized that Info360 (previously AIIM Expo) is less than a month away. This year will be particularly busy for me as ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Mar-2010
If you live in North America, it's easy to forget that Facebook's global competition may not be MySpace or LinkedIn. Instead, it's a plethora of local competitors. For example, Hyves, here in The Netherlands, has some 7.6m users ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Feb-2010
Mega-vendor Open Text announced today that it would acquire fellow Canadian vendor, NStein. NStein was known mostly for its text-mining / text analytics tools, but over the years took a circuitous route ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Jan-2010
We're looking to hire a UK- or Europe-based (with native English) sales and support executive. You can ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Jan-2010
For those vendors with solid profits, it's a buyer's market. SDL, parent company of such products as Tridion, Trados, Trisoft, and XySoft, announced the acquisition of Dutch e-commerce vendor Fredhopper today. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Jan-2010
Today we received an inquiry from a research customer about the UK WCM market size, and I gave what felt like a rather unsatisfying response. Here's the question and my answer. Perhaps you can suggest other ideas via comments, below ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Dec-2009
Yesterday we issued our twelve predictions for 2010. Once again, I'll look back at our 2009 predictions and see how we did ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Jul-2009
Bluenog, an upstart web content management company, continues to make waves. But not always the kind of waves they'd like ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Jul-2009
A lot of my time is spent evaluating technology, and I have a confession to make: the licensing is one of the least spectacular bits to review. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 2-Jul-2009
As Murraymania swept the UK, I settled into my seat on Court No. 2 last week, on Wimbledon's always-action-packed middle Saturday ... Continue Reading
Added By Ann Rockley on 29-Jun-2009
UK-based SDL remains in a spending mood. The trend began with acquiring longtime ... Continue Reading
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