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Is Plone Really More Secure Than Drupal and Joomla?

Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Feb-2013

Security is a touchy subject in the Web CMS world in general and very touchy in particular among open source WCXM projects, since open source platforms are frequently accused (often unfairly) of being inherently insecure by dint of their more open development models.

So it's been interesting to watch some Plone adherents contrast their platform's security profile to that of some major competitors ... Continue Reading

What TinyMCE, FCK, and IE9 Problems Can Teach Us

Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Jan-2013

When Microsoft began releasing betas of Internet Explorer 9 in 2010, Redmond's huge global user community quickly started uncovering various strengths and weaknesses of the new version. One demerit quickly emerged that still hasn't completely gone away: IE9 doesn't play well with certain versions of the popular rich text editor ("RTE") TinyMCE as well as its main competitor, FCK/CK ... Continue Reading

How Did Our Predictions Fare in 2012?

Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Dec-2012

Every year we make predictions about the coming annum, and every year, we go back and see how our predictions actually fared. See, for example, our assessment of our 2011 predictions.

Below I'll evaluate how our 2012 predictions (from December, 2011) held up ... Continue Reading

What watching Top Gear can teach the technology buyer

Added By Matt Mullen on 13-Dec-2012

If you've not seen the UK show (or the local variants that exist in the US, Australia, and Germany), one of the regular features is to set a timed lap in a vehicle as part of a review. Same track, same(ish) driver, and therefore a reasonable comparison on performance.

There are some lessons here for technology buyers. ... Continue Reading

WCXM Pitfall 11: Missing or underestimating internal change management issues

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 11-Dec-2012

Pitfall 11: Missing or underestimating internal change management issues ... Continue Reading

WCXM Pitfall 10: Looking solely at the product and not enough at the vendor

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 29-Nov-2012

Pitfall 10: Looking solely at the product and not enough at the vendor ... Continue Reading

WCXM Pitfall 9: Underestimating integration and other professional service needs

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 27-Nov-2012

Pitfall 9: Underestimating integration and other professional service needs ... Continue Reading

WCXM Pitfall 8: Underestimating hardware needs

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 26-Nov-2012

Pitfall 8: Underestimating hardware needs ... Continue Reading

A One Track Mind and Drupal's scarce talent pool in Europe

Added By Matt Mullen on 15-Nov-2012

Beyond the age-old debate between open source and proprietary software communities, one truism has persisted over the years: when there is one technology platform dominates in any market for any sizable period, we all suffer ... Continue Reading

When Your Boss Says Cloud-First

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

WCXM Pitfall 1: Selecting a Web CMS package before developing solid requirements and a business case

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 30-Oct-2012

Pitfall 1: Selecting a Web CMS package before developing solid requirements and a business case ... Continue Reading

Challenge of Scale within the Enterprise, Part 2 - Search

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

Peeling the layers of our Broadcast and Media Asset Management Research

Added By Kashyap Kompella on 24-Sep-2012

In addition to our signature vendor evaluations, see how you can use the Broadcast and Media Asset Management research during different phases of your MAM project ... Continue Reading

What ever happened to Web Accessibility?

Added By Matt Mullen on 20-Sep-2012

If there's one legacy I'd like from the games of 2012, it would be a renewed enthusiasm for building accessible websites and not -- as in the case of Ocado -- aiming so low as to hit only the most-basic level of compliance ... Continue Reading

Despite IBM messaging, analytics do not equal insights

Added By Theresa Regli on 19-Sep-2012

IBM, the official technology provider of all the tennis majors globally, has slyly branded the statistics as "Insights."

I couldn't help but think -- based on Real Story Group's experience evaluating different technologies with reporting functionality -- that it's quite a deceiving stretch to assume that numbers = insights ... Continue Reading

Digital Marketing - An Emerging Role for Integrators

Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Sep-2012

As major enterprises invest ever-larger resources in digital marketing technology, I think a gap is emerging at the upper end of the market in terms of the talent required to make these tools work at an enterprise level ... Continue Reading

Key Trends in Web Content and Experience Management

Added By Tony Byrne on 6-Sep-2012

My colleague Apoorv and I had a very productive advisory session today with a longtime RSG subscriber, a global systems integration firm. The topic was trends in Portal and Web Content & Experience Management (WCXM) technologies. In case you were curious, here are the four trends in WCXM we shared ... Continue Reading

Responsive Design and WCXM - What am I missing?

Added By Matt Mullen on 5-Sep-2012

I might be missing something, but my question remains: what specifically are WCXM vendors trying to prove by focusing on Responsive Design? That they won't actively prevent you from using CSS3? ... Continue Reading

North Plains, celum, ADAM and Autonomy tout collaboration features in DAM

Added By Theresa Regli on 16-Aug-2012

It was last year at Henry Stewart's DAM conference in New York that I first stated that despite the industry's multi-year love affair with the word "workflow," collaboration trumps workflow in DAM. It's only recently, however, that ... Continue Reading

Beware user experience overreach in your website overhaul

Added By Tony Byrne on 13-Aug-2012

I'm seeing a trend where old habits of technology overreach are getting matched by UX overreach. Under the lure of big, beautiful UX plans, some customers are biting off more than they can chew, while failing to execute on the basics ... Continue Reading

Technology Buyer Risks

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 19-Jul-2012

Recently I sat down with my colleague Tony to discuss the biggest challenges that our customers are facing. Some of the biggest culprits are making the wrong choices by overbuying, overpaying, overvaluing vendor claims, and overestimating your own capabilities ... Continue Reading

DAM Project Managers: are you effectively using vendor and integrator resources?

Added By Kashyap Kompella on 6-Jul-2012

It takes two to tango and what many customers do not realize is this – it’s not just the knowledge of the consulting resources but your own preparedness to engage effectively with them also matters. ... Continue Reading