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Tony Byrne

Getting beyond the Magic Quadrant for WCM

Added By Tony Byrne on 26-Aug-2010

Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management 2010 is out, accompanied by vendors' public crowing and private tears, depending on their placement. You can get a copy of the MQ from Sitecore, who just obtained a ticket on the magic elevator ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Skeptical about DotNetNuke getting enterprisey

Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Aug-2010

Many observers expected big things when DotNetNuke Corporation raised serious venture capital in November, 2008. (DotNetNuke Corporation is the commercial entity behind the sprawling, open source CMS community by the same name) ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

IBM and Coremetrics: A Second Look

Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Aug-2010

After discussions with several Coremetrics customers, we've taken a second look at IBM's acquisition of the web analytics vendor. To quote ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

CMS Vendor EPiServer Not Going Public

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 12-Aug-2010

This year's big plan for Swedish Web CMS vendor EPiServer was to go public on July 30th. In the end, though, that didn't quite work out: EPi withdrew at the last minute ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

IBM Acquires Datacap - First Take

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-Aug-2010

Today IBM announced the acquisition of Datacap. It was no surprise really as Big Blue has been talking for a while about enhancing their overall imaging offering, to better leverage advanced case management ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Adobe To Acquire Day - Second Take - DAM Perspective

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Autonomy buys CA Information Governance - A First Take

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

Adriaan Bloem

Exalead acquired by Dassault Systemes

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

Tony Byrne

Categorizing the Collaboration and Community Technology Marketplace

Added By Tony Byrne on 13-May-2010

Recently, we've been presenting on the Enterprise Collaboration and Community software marketplace, and one slide in particular seems to attract peoples' attention ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

The Web Analytics Marketplace, circa 2010

Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Apr-2010

Yesterday we released our "Cross-Check" for Web Analytics vendors, circa mid-2010 ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Big vendors dominate the ECM and Document Management Market

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 6-Apr-2010

This past week I have been working to update our ECM and Document Management market analysis ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Google, DocVerse, Jive, and vendor-switching in the Cloud

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Mar-2010

Google bought DocVerse two weeks ago -- but that was hardly a surprise. DocVerse allows people to collaborate on the same Office document via special plug-in. The software syncs ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Little Lucid gets big funding for Lucene

Added By Kas Thomas on 11-Mar-2010

Lucid Imagination, the commercial company that distributes its own certified versions of the open source Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, has raised $10 million in Series B funding from a series of venture capital firms ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Open Source is not always cheaper

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Feb-2010

On the document-management shortlist of a mid sized publishing firm this month lay four bidders: a specialist incumbent, two household name vendors (IBM & Microsoft), and an open source option ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Not Buying Into Open Text and the Power of Three

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

Jarrod Gingras

Iron Mountain buys Mimosa

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 22-Feb-2010

Iron Mountain the records management services giant today announced that it was buying e-mail archiving vendor Mimosa. Mimosa is certainly one of the more ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

SAP, EMC, and Open Text - Who cares?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010

Over the last few weeks there has been a flurry of media interest in the fact that SAP is reselling EMC Documentum and Open Text products. It's a flurry (bordering on blizzard) that is of little or no relevance to actual buyers of these software products ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Fatwire plus EMC - the WCM perspective

Added By Apoorv Durga on 19-Feb-2010

So my colleague Kas was not very off track when he speculated something's cooking between EMC and FatWire. They announced a strategic partnership.that includes a minority stake for EMC in FatWire and ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

EMC plus Fatwire - the DAM perspective

Added By Kas Thomas on 19-Feb-2010

The other shoe has finally dropped in the EMC-FatWire saga. EMC announced in will acquire a (minority) stake in Mineola, NY-based FatWire, who will remain one of few privately held pure-play WCM vendors ... 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

Adriaan Bloem

EPiServer goes public

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 27-Jan-2010

Like nearly all its competitors, Swedish Web CMS and Social Software vendor EPiServer is doing well financially. The company reports nearly $30m in revenues over 2009 and now boasts almost 3,000 customers. So perhaps it's no surprise that last week ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Day reports sunny results for 1H2009

Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Jul-2009

It's always encouraging to hear that, despite the dour financial environment in which we live, there are companies making money in the WCM space ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

The boondoggle that is software maintenance fees

Added By Tony Byrne on 28-Jul-2009

Annual software support and maintenance fees are something every customer loves to hate, and yet, for the most part we keep paying them ... Continue Reading

Ann Rockley

XYEnterprise Acquired - First Thoughts

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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