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Added By Kashyap Kompella on 10-Feb-2012
Jive software announced its 2011 financial results this week. Although our 360-degree vendor evaluations dwell at length on the products and real-world customer experiences, we also keep an eye on vendor financials to understand their stability and viability, and raise red flags if required ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Feb-2012
Late last year we marked our tenth year in business, which seemed like a good time to reflect on what has changed across the landscape of content, web, and collaboration technologies -- and what has not ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 25-Jan-2012
Jive Software has long been the darling of the Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software space. Yes, they have decent (though not spectacular) technology, but the company has always been savvier about "message." Jive talked social networking as an alternative to SharePoint 2007 when that was hot, then pivoted to more of a collaboration message as customers got more serious, then joined the cloud/API/ecosystem bandwagons at the right time, and so on ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Dec-2011
SharePoint licensees seeking to deliver on the promise of social networking and more advanced collaboration applications must choose among three alternative approaches to close the gap ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 6-Dec-2011
It took a bit of financial courting, but we have another market match: the struggling Alterian has agreed to sell out to SDL for an all-cash, 110p-a-share offer for a total sum of £68.4 million ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 6-Dec-2011
It's that time of year for our team of Real Story Group analysts to reveal our 2012 predictions, where we try to predict what the future holds in the technology world ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Oct-2011
Oracle has announced its intention to buy Endeca, a major independent purveyor of Enterprise Search technology. It's not in the least bit surprising as Autonomy (arguably Endeca's biggest rival) had been in talks with Oracle prior to their acquisition by HP, and from that alone it was clear that Oracle was interested in acquiring advanced search technology ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 14-Oct-2011
Not long ago, many were scoffing at Box as being just another California start-up foolishly comparing themselves to the SharePoint behemoth. ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 13-Oct-2011
Last week I attended the Adobe MAX annual customer conference in Los Angeles. My primary interest revolved around WCM/WEM and DAM, and checking out how the acquisitions of Day Software and Omniture are getting integrated. To remind you, we cover Adobe’s CQ5 product in our WCM evaluations, and CQ DAM and Scene7 in our DAM report. ... 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 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Aug-2011
I cannot say that the acquisition by HP of search giant Autonomy bodes well. Taking the parties' past histories into account, this simply doesn't seem to be a good long term match. Hence my advice is ... Continue Reading
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
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Jul-2011
OpenText today announced that they are to buy Texas based-SharePoint partner Global360. Most acquisitions like this end up becoming quite disruptive for you the customer. Is this one any different? ... 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 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
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 23-May-2011
In this era of many enterprises moving content to the cloud, it is easy to get caught up in the potential benefits and rush to get started without properly protecting yourself ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 3-May-2011
Well, spring seems to be a good season not only to celebrate Queen's Day in the Netherlands and the Internationals Worker's Day in Russia, but also to harvest the vendor acquisition crop. Next up ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Apr-2011
As a technology customer, sometimes you should worry less that a software vendor is blowing smoke, and perhaps a bit more that the vendor's consulting partners may be leading you down the garden path. Some consultants bank their entire job -- or even their whole career -- on a specific product, and will sometimes defend it to the last ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Feb-2011
There's a lot of skepticism today about the influence that vendors have on traditional analyst reports, including product evaluation reports. That skepticism is well founded. But the problem is not that vendors bribe analyst firms outright. The game is more subtle than that. Vendors use their leverage over analyst firms to skew reports in favor of suppliers over customers ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Jan-2011
When I wrote about EMC imposing audits on long-term Documentum customers in February 2009, I received several communications from very disgruntled customers. I posited that this was a bad way of going about business, and figured EMC would temper their policing a bit. But it seems I was wrong. Despite customer fury, EMC and KPMG continue to invoke out-of-the-blue audits on some of their best licensees. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 12-Jan-2011
Nearly all the vendors we cover have become quite good at marketing themselves. But if you dig deeper, you'll find many differences have gotten wallpapered over. The challenging bit for us is trying to explain what lies underneath. Take Alterian, and its Alterian Content Manager product ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 21-Dec-2010
Every product and technology solution provider inherently brings some amount of risk. When it comes to technology, change is inevitable and often a good thing, but also potentially a strong indicator of risk for new buyers of technology. For example ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Dec-2010
You may be getting pressure to join a particular tool's bandwagon. This year it could be Drupal, Sitecore, Jive, or Liferay. Next year it will certainly be a different set of names. Our industry is nothing if not faddish. When faced with the bandwagon effect, I encourage you to pause and consider all the angles ... Continue Reading
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