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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
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Nov-2010
Swedish WCM vendor EPiServer was acquired a few weeks ago -- and I've been trying to come up with something meaningful to say about it ever since ... 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 Apoorv Durga on 19-Nov-2010
Content integration vendor Kapow made a couple of announcements this week, mostly related to re-branding and enhancements to their data integration platform. The key aspects of these announcements are ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-Nov-2010
It seems timely to publish our EMC-Documentum family tree, as there has been a change in senior management there recently. I try not to comment too much on vendor personnel changes, since change is natural enough and people move on, but I think this one is worth an exception ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 8-Nov-2010
Last week, Oracle announced its acquisition of Art Technology Group (ATG) for $ 1 Billion. At this price, it might appear smaller than other, better-known acquisitions such as those of Sun Microsystems ($ 7.4 B), BEA Systems ($ 8.5 B), and PeopleSoft ($ 10.5 B in 2004), yet it's an important acquisition, nevertheless ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Oct-2010
My post yesterday about Autonomy reminded me to explain a bit more about software vendor "roll-ups" and what they really mean to you the customer ... 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 Tony Byrne on 8-Oct-2010
When I was a pup in the enterprise technology industry, I noticed that some of the best solutions came from smaller vendors. Upon hearing this, my elders would pull me aside and say, ... 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
VideoEgg announced today it will acquire Six Apart (creators of Movable Type). Or, depending on how you look at it, it's a merger. VideoEgg and Six Apart will form a new company, called "SAY Media." But where does that leave Movable Type? ... 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 Tony Byrne on 16-Sep-2010
Please join me for a complimentary webinar next Wednesday, 22 September, "How to Select a Web Content Management System." ... Continue Reading
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Apr-2010
Yesterday we released our "Cross-Check" for Web Analytics vendors, circa mid-2010 ... Continue Reading
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Added By Ann Rockley on 29-Jun-2009
UK-based SDL remains in a spending mood. The trend began with acquiring longtime ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Jun-2009
In the past week two open source portal initiatives decided to merge efforts: going forward eXo will now be a part of the Red Hat JBoss Portal ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 25-May-2009
When Omniture announced its Q1 2009 earnings a few weeks ago, there was a bit of heartburn among its investors because ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-May-2009
I participated in an interesting panel yesterday at the Interop 2009 conference, Unified Communications Meets Enterprise 2.0 - Social Computing Love Fest or Battle Royale? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Apr-2009
Well, I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was. Here's the Sun press release. At one level, the move fits a definite pattern: ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 24-Mar-2009
Like the month of March, software vendor offerings will go in like a lion and out like a lamb ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Mar-2009
The Wall Street Journal reports that IBM is in discussions to buy Sun Microsystems ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 17-Mar-2009
Last week we lost about 36 hours worth of comments on this site. It was either an outage ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 15-Mar-2009
About a month ago, I reported that SurfRay was in bankruptcy. It has only taken a few weeks, but it seems the company has been revived. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Mar-2009
Minnesota-based Ancept Media Server, LLC (one of the DAM ;vendors covered in our Digital and Media Asset Management Report) has been acquired by ViewCast Corporation ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 5-Mar-2009
The AIIM International Expo and Conference in Philadelphia, PA is rapidly approaching. One session that I am particularly excited about is ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Feb-2009
CMS and DAM vendor Day Software (traded on the Swiss bourse as DAYN) has released financial results for FY 2008 ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Feb-2009
Over the years I have heard of many enterprise software customers being audited by enterprise content management (ECM) vendors ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Feb-2009
I've reported on the troubles at Danish search vendor Surfray before, but it seems that it is now curtains for the company ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 2-Feb-2009
Our job at CMS Watch involves more than simply writing and researching technology evaluations; we also spend a lot of time advising and guiding our customers ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 23-Jan-2009
The announcement yesterday that Autonomy would buy Interwoven (a deal that should close in the second quarter of this year) has a number of interesting ramifications ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Jan-2009
It has taken a while, but with a continuing investigation by the Norwegian police and restating of earnings over 2006/2007, Microsoft is cutting itself ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Jan-2009
It's been nearly a year since Serena Software re-incarnated itself as a "mash-up" vendor and tried to jettison its mid-market Web CMS ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Jan-2009
Surfray, the company that acquired Mondosoft after the latter's bankruptcy, continues to encounter heavy weather itself. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Jan-2009
Today we released the 2009 edition of our Enterprise Social Software & Collaboration Report ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 14-Jan-2009
We've written a fair amount about Vignette Corporation's various travails over the past year ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 7-Jan-2009
After cruising along as $200m/yr companies through middle part of this decade, Vignette and Interwoven appear to be headed in opposite directions ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 5-Jan-2009
Today we release our Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2009. In this new edition, we've greatly expanded our coverage of Minnesota, USA-based MediaBeacon... ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Dec-2008
One of my favorite little phrases is "double edged sword," and I found a perfect application for it recently, in a discussion of "incumbent" vendors ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Dec-2008
I recently received an interesting survey from Steven Ashley, senior research analyst at Robert W Baird & Company, a financial services firm. The survey tried to figure out the analytics tools employed by the 500 most heavily-trafficked websites ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 9-Dec-2008
Ironically, laying people off (as a way to improve operating efficiency) is not cheap. Just ask Adobe Systems. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 5-Dec-2008
As I wandered around the Gilbane Boston 2008 show last week, the question I heard people asking each other most often was some variation ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 25-Nov-2008
It has become fashionable lately to declare that search is dead ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Nov-2008
Yesterday I attended the Interwoven annual Analyst Day in New York. It was an interesting day in many respects ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 11-Nov-2008
These aren't exactly the best of times for WCM/Portal/ECM vendor, Vignette Corporation. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Nov-2008
At recent Henry Stewart DAM conferences a couple of ClearStory Systems customers mentioned to me that ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Oct-2008
Web CMS vendor Day Software announced earlier this week that Kevin Cochrane had signed on as Chief Marketing Officer ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Oct-2008
Every day I am assaulted by a barrage of press releases, almost all of which contain nothing of interest ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 16-Oct-2008
It's official: Fast Search & Transfer has been charged with accounting fraud ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 15-Oct-2008
I'm hearing a lot of chatter among social software cognoscenti about how the looming recession will impact ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Oct-2008
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technology goes back around 30 years, and at it's heart lies document management and workflow ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Oct-2008
As bailouts become a global phenomenon, it's time to review what this all means for you, the technology buyer ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 19-Aug-2008
A few weeks ago, I questioned whether the SaaS Web CMS vendor Marqui was "going belly up"... ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Aug-2008
We've been following Web CMS vendor Hot Banana for some time now ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 29-Jul-2008
Today we release a new edition of our Web Analytics Report 2008, a Basic Edition. This new edition focuses on the smaller players in the web analytics space ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 29-Jul-2008
We're excited to introduce a new offering - Online Education - for those interested in learning the fundamentals of content technologies. Today we debut our WCM course ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Jul-2008
Vignette and Interwoven have released their second-quarter 2008 results, and it's a study in contrasts ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Jul-2008
I recently had a long and wide-ranging interview with IT Business Edge on the topic of Social Software technologies ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 16-Jul-2008
Press releases are a funny thing, I thought as I saw the announcement from JupiterResearch that ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jul-2008
Gartner's recent "MarketScope for Web Content Management" has predictably garnered a lot of attention from vendors happy with their position in the ratings chart. I have a mixed reaction ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 11-Jul-2008
Recently, I was alerted to TechVibes' news that Marqui was in receivership... ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 9-Jul-2008
Late last month I had the pleasure of attending the Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Symposium in London, UK, where I presented a summary of our research recently ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 5-Jul-2008
The Fast Search & Transfer news continues to keep me on my toes. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 27-Jun-2008
This past week I had the pleasure of keynoting at the DocTrain event in Indianapolis (held at the truly magnificent Union Station venue), and also running a small session on "How to procure Content Technologies." ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 27-Jun-2008
The whole issue of (E-mail Archiving and Management) EAM has come under the spotlight recently - triggered by ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 25-Jun-2008
As the Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Symposium kicks off in London, we comment in today's press release on a few areas where DAM vendors are coming up short ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 23-Jun-2008
There's something vaguely Orwellian, at times, about the language that turns up in quarterly and annual reports ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Jun-2008
It's been a while since there was a big product announcement in the ECM world, but today's announcement by Adobe that they will be embedding Alfresco ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Jun-2008
Software-as-a-Service has an especially strong case in the area of Digital Asset Management, where the buyer is often a marketing manager or creative team with a fixed monthly budget and little to no IT support. But not all SaaS is created equal ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 3-Jun-2008
Apparently, when I previously wrote about Carrie's hand reaching out from the grave, the metaphor was too subtle. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-May-2008
I vividly remember being terrified as a child by the movie Carrie. The closing scene ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-May-2008
We recently pointed out that UK-based Web CMS vendor Mediasurface was being courted, and now the suitor has revealed themselves: ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-May-2008
I just spent a couple of days in Chicago at BEA's (oops, Oracle's) "Participate" user conference. This is where AquaLogic (née Plumtree) Portal/Collaboration/BPM customers come to meet without any pesky WebLogic enthusiasts around ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 15-May-2008
Omniture's Q1 2008 financial results were as rosy as ever ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 12-May-2008
As the Henry Stewart DAM Conference kicks off in New York City today, CMS Watch has quite a bit to say about the state of the DAM industry ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 7-May-2008
I'm thrilled to announce the launch of The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008 ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 6-May-2008
I've been hearing various rumors recently about mid-market Web CMS vendors up for sale. If true, ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Apr-2008
It's hard to know how Documentum is doing these days, now that it's been assimilated into EMC (the $32 billion ILM colossus) ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Apr-2008
Vignette announced its first-quarter numbers last week, and the results weren't pretty ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 13-Apr-2008
This past week's announcement that Yahoo! purchased IndexTools puts a new spotlight on the web analytics marketplace. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 11-Apr-2008
There's nothing like promising a Playboy centerfold to drive people (well, men mostly) to an upcoming technology conference ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 6-Apr-2008
Since moving to the US in 2002 I have become a fan of The Atlantic magazine, and in particular the last page of each edition that contains the "Word Fugitives" column ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Apr-2008
One topic that keeps coming up in conversations with buyers of content technologies -- and of course those that sell content technologies -- is the topic of a looming recession ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 1-Apr-2008
Great theater. Awesome Indian food. Hyde Park in springtime ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Apr-2008
A couple recent news items find SAP and IBM both in a bit of legal hot water ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 31-Mar-2008
So HP finally made a move into the world of ECM by acquiring Tower Software of Australia ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 17-Mar-2008
In the latest shuffle in enterprise search, SAS, known for business intelligence and analytics software, has announced today it acquired Teragram, natural language processing specialists ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 13-Mar-2008
Much like "le brunch" has infiltrated the Paris restaurant scene, Anglophone phrases like le CRM, l'ERP and l'ECM were omnipresent at Documation Paris this week. So were vendors at the conference podium ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Mar-2008
A Serena Collage customers' mailing lit up this morning with news that the software vendor (who focuses mostly on configuration management and mash-up tools) was going to discontinue development of its (somewhat hidden) Web CMS tool. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Feb-2008
A colleague whose company recently went through a Web CMS selection process just received an e-mail from one of the vendors who lost out in the competition ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 19-Feb-2008
As my scrupulous colleague Adriaan Bloem pointed out last month about Google, sometimes vendors and their marketing evolve more quickly than products themselves ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 15-Feb-2008
Funny how time flies. It doesn't seem like 18 months have passed since we blogged about Day Software's slipping development schedule ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 6-Feb-2008
More quiet than the news of Microsoft's acquisition of FAST Search & Transfer was the recent announcement that enterprise search vendor Endeca has received $15 million in funding from the venture arms of Intel and SAP ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 5-Feb-2008
On the heels of Clickability's announcement yesterday that it has received a second round of VC funding, the other pure-play SaaS vendor we cover in the 2008 Web Content Management Report, CrownPeak, is making some news of its own. Today the company announced a new product... ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 4-Feb-2008
In a recent article and blog entry, my colleague Tony talked about both the popularity of Software as a Service or hosted model and some of the potential dangers. In our 2008 Web Content Management Report we cover two pure-play SaaS vendors, Clickability and CrownPeak. Both are venture-backed, both have shown consistent growth recently, and today Clickability announced that it has received a second round of funding of $8 million, bringing its total outside funding to $15.3 million. ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 1-Feb-2008
Analytics vendor WebTrends announced a host of additions to their new management team on Wednesday ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Jan-2008
On the heels of my article about the difference between "managed services" using traditional software vs. native SaaS offerings, I got a message from a friend whose company may be in a bit of a jam ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Jan-2008
Let's peek back into ECM/WCM vendor Vignette following last week's speculation about the company's financials ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 21-Jan-2008
Against the backdrop of the Sun and Oracle acquisition announcements of last week, it's easy to miss the fact that Vignette stock enjoyed a surprising spike ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 17-Jan-2008
With every vendor acquisition, and the uncertainty this brings for existing customers, I see self-perceived competitors step in with cut-rate offers to "upgrade" to their technology. But I was still surprised to see Google ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Jan-2008
Blink and you would have missed it -- for lost in the all the headlines of ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 15-Jan-2008
Today we released the 2008 Web Analytics Report, evaluating 15 web analytics products. While you may have heard of ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Jan-2008
Of course, with last year's upheaval at Fast Search & Transfer, there has been speculation of the company being acquired. And most were quick to agree that Microsoft would be a likely buyer ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 6-Dec-2007
Omniture's plans to acquire Visual Sciences cleared a major hurdle yesterday with the US Federal Trade Commission yesterday ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 4-Dec-2007
Today we released the ECM Suites Report 2008, evaluating 32 Enterprise Content Management vendors. ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 28-Nov-2007
Lost in the news about the dust-up at WebTrends and aftershocks from the Omniture/Visual Sciences acquisition was the announcement that Lyris, Inc. (formerly J.L. Halsey), the parent company to ClickTracks, launched ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 27-Nov-2007
Today we released some findings about the Web Analytics marketplace. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Nov-2007
Something appears to be quite amiss at Interwoven. On 15th November a notice of non-compliance was served against the company by NASDAQ. ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 19-Nov-2007
The changes at WebTrends continue ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 15-Nov-2007
In news from Tel Aviv, Israel, a Norwegian software company called Vizrt has agreed to acquire Norwegian Web CMS vendor Escenic ... Continue Reading
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This past week at the Enterprise Search Summit in San Jose, CA, I had a chance to meet up with some representatives of Mondosoft. In the wake of their bankruptcy announcement and SurfRay gobbling up the pieces, they appear to have emerged relatively unscathed under new Surfray ownership. ... Continue Reading
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Well that was the news out of Portland late yesterday from a piece in the Portland Business Journal ... Continue Reading
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Our latest web content management technology research suggests that Big Blue is falling behind its major competitors in the Web CMS marketplace ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 28-Oct-2007
There has been plenty of discussion over the last few days about "consolidation" in the web analytics marketplace due to the Omniture/Visual Sciences deal. I believe the whole notion of consolidation is really ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 26-Oct-2007
As Phil Kemelor points out, the VisualSciences sale to Omniture should cause customers to ready themselves for a bumpy ride. Customers of VisualSciences' web content management service, Publish, and their hosted search service, Search, will continue to endure the uncertainty ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 26-Oct-2007
...and sold to the bidder in the back. According to Danish website Computerworld, enterprise search vendor Mondosoft, which is currently in liquidation, has been bought by fellow countrymen ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 25-Oct-2007
That's what I wondered when reading about their purchase of Visual Sciences ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 25-Oct-2007
Traditional business theory posits that as technology marketplaces mature, basic features get commoditized, followed by rapid supplier consolidation, leaving a handful of big players and some very small, very niche-y independent vendors ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Oct-2007
Major enterprise search vendor Autonomy announced today that they will acquire Meridio, the Northern Ireland-based Records Management vendor which had originally hitched its wagon to Microsoft SharePoint ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Oct-2007
Last week, Interwoven acquired hosted "site optimization " supplier, Optimost. Optimost works by taking HTML snippet variants that you wish to test ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 15-Oct-2007
According to the Danish financial newspaper Børsen, enterprise search vendor Mondosoft is now in liquidation (via Version2) ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 9-Oct-2007
As part of my ongoing research for the Web Analytics Report, I've been looking more closely at vendor size and financial performance. Of course, most of the vendors in this space are privately held ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Oct-2007
Sometimes a relationship ends, only to be rekindled later with the time is riper. Such is the case with Web Content Management (WCM) vendor Day Software and FileNet ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 23-Aug-2007
Not long after my WebTrends Xmas in August Release post, WebTrends' Director of Product Marketing Matt Langie contacted me to tell me that I'd gotten their pricing wrong. Pricing for Marketing Data Warehouse is not $1000/month, as I thought I'd been told during the demo. Langie said this statement contained errors: ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 17-Aug-2007
Three weeks ago, Fast Search & Transfer announced a profit warning, readjusting its projected revenues to the $34 - $38 million range down from the $54 to $57 million the company expected only two months earlier. The company cited "changes in business practice with regard to the non-use of MoUs and the tightening of internal control procedures." ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 3-Aug-2007
Omniture announced last week a 78 percent in revenues over the second quarter of 2006 and 15 percent over the first quarter of 2007. Much of this growth was driven by international sales that accounted for $8.8 million, or 26% of all revenue. This was a 184% increase over last year. Of course, with growth comes challenges. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Jul-2007
MS SharePoint continues to grow at a pace - in a presentation to Financial Analysts earlier this week, Microsoft stated that in the past year they have seen year over year 35% growth and revenues of a staggering $800 Million US. They also claim ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 20-Jul-2007
Both FAST and Microsoft have announced that they are "working together" on integrating FAST ESP with MOSS 2007. This has had analysts in a flurry, ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 13-Jul-2007
If you're a Visual Sciences customer (i.e., HBX and Visual Site analytics, Publish CMS, or the former Atomz Search), you'd have to be a bit concerned by yesterday's report that the company is actively considering "unsolicited inquiries" to be acquired ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 9-Jul-2007
To set the stage, I commend you to a recent podcast featuring an interesting discussion about the European web analytics market, moderated by Lars Johannsen, the Web Analytics Association Coordinator in Sweden.
The 75-minute discussion focused on current challenges facing European enterprises investing in analytics, ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 26-Jun-2007
UK-based Web CMS vendor Mediasurface announced today its intention to acquire smaller UK competitor Immediacy. This follows a 2005 acquisition of a hosted Dutch solution that Mediasurface renamed "Pepperio," to target small businesses. I wasn't sanguine at the time about one vendor selling two products and I don't see how three offerings makes the company any stronger, even if it gets bigger ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 18-Jun-2007
With little fanfare, ClickTracks' CEO John Marshall is leaving his post to pursue other opportunities. This perhaps isn't too surprising considering the ClickTracks was purchased in August by e-marketing roll-up company, J.L. Halsey ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 14-May-2007
Amid all the hype arround the new version of Google Analytics last week, Visual Sciences/WebSideStory did its share to grab headlines by announcing new releases for HBX and Visual Sciences, and officially changing the name of the company from WebSideStory to Visual Sciences. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 6-Apr-2007
In a surprising move, Convera Corporation sold its RetrievalWare solution - which accounts for most of Convera's revenue - to Norwegian enterprise search vendor Fast Search & Transfer. With dwindling sales ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 28-Dec-2006
Everyone has holiday traditions, and recently we were amused to learn that one of our clients invites employees to compose variations on show tunes, telling a tale of a project that transpired at the company during the past year. One late evening, as I listened to Miles Davis and Led Zeppelin while reviewing a CMS and portal RFP, inspiration struck. ... Continue Reading
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