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Added By Tony Byrne on 16-May-2012
I had lunch the other day with a couple of acquaintances who work at a systems integrator (SI) that does a lot of work for the federal government (a.k.a., "beltway bandit").
They pointed out that, like SharePoint of yore, Drupal was all the rage among US federal web managers under this current administration. So naturally this SI went looking for experienced Drupal talent. And could not find any ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 15-May-2012
We've released a major update to our Web Content and Experience Management (WCXM) Evaluations, which review 35 major CMS products from around the globe.
First and foremost, you will notice the name change: ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 10-May-2012
WARNING: If you're already getting "Big Data" buzzword sickness, look away now, as Lucid Imagination -- the professional open source distributor of the Apache Lucene/Solr search platform -- has announced a beta program for its formal entry into the "Big Data" turf war. It's called, predictably, ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 8-May-2012
Big Data is may be a buzzword, yet it's certainly generating interesting discussions. Over the last month or two, I been party to a number of really interesting sessions - such as the CW500 event I mentioned previously - and with recent acquisitions in this space, the question is becoming less about whether Big Data is possible, and more about how it can be applied in the enterprise.
For me this raises the question of quality ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-May-2012
Last week, Oracle announced a new version 11gR1 of WebCenter Sites. This is the erstwhile FatWire product, “Oracalized” -- a bit -- for the first time since the acquisition last year.
So how far has Oracle progressed? Well, ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 3-May-2012
The esteemed Financial Times is ready to pull the plug on its iOS native apps and instead replace them with an HTML5-based app.
Reportedly, the so called "Apple Tax" -- whereby developers pay 30% of revenues to Apple -- along with lack of access to customer data, are the main reasons prompting FT.com to follow others ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 30-Apr-2012
Part 1 of this series provided a quick run down of 9 MAM vendors. Here are 8 more ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Apr-2012
The modern digital workplace and public internet is of course increasingly mobile. So for those enterprises with portal-driven experiences, what's the best way to "mobilize"? ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 27-Apr-2012
Media Asset Management is a market that's coming out of hibernation and getting ready for prime time as media companies and broadcasters prepare themselves for a multi-platform world ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 27-Apr-2012
Google finally released its much rumored Google Drive, a new competitor in the increasingly crowded cloud-based file sharing and sync marketplace. As with all things Google, the Drive announcement generated a huge amount of hype across the blogosphere and twitterverse.
Many commentators compare Drive with Dropbox and to some extent Microsoft's SkyDrive and Apple's iCloud. However, there are many, many more choices ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 26-Apr-2012
As they say in the ad world, "Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings." I'm afraid it will be a rough landing for integrated campaigns with many of the DAM products in the market. Currently, many of them ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 25-Apr-2012
Today IBM announced that it was acquiring search vendor Vivisimo for an undisclosed amount, purportedly to boost Big Blue's capabilities in Big Data ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 25-Apr-2012
As you have already heard a gazillion times, converting capital expenditure into operating expense is a key value proposition of cloud computing. Yes, but customers need to understand that cloud vendors have different payment models which can eat into any such potential benefits ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 24-Apr-2012
We have just released a new Advisory Paper, "2012 Portals and Content Integration Market Analysis." This briefing offers a snapshot of trends in the current marketplace, as well as a comparative analysis of the relative risks associated with each portal and content integration vendor ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 20-Apr-2012
Slightly modifying what the ancient Greeks said, you cannot dip your finger twice in the same (activity) stream. There is a constant ferment of activity in the E2.0 space, and ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 16-Apr-2012
Official word is not yet out (weekends in France start early, right?) but the co-founder & ex-CEO of French social software vendor blueKiwi confirmed its acquisition by systems integrator Atos, also of French Origin ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 13-Apr-2012
Your friendly neighborhood Walmart may perhaps be the best kept secret in the world of cloud and content management. Walmart is already the largest distributor of videos in the offline world, and now with the upcoming roll out of the disk to digital (D2D) initiative, it is turning into a content management vendor for videos in the cloud ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-Apr-2012
In the good old days, when your firm's Enterprise Portal was a "gateway to the world," the thinking was that you needed to standardize on one single Portal platform, and perhaps even on single enterprise portal instance.
However, as we all know, that's not really very practical (both for technical and organizational reasons), and multiple portal platforms have always proliferated within organizations ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 12-Apr-2012
Social networking vendor Yammer is a strong contender for the "Twitter in the Enterprise" crown. However, as subscribers to our social collaboration research know, just being a micro-blogging / activity stream service (even if you are the most well-known game in town) no longer suffices. Use cases around Enterprise Conversation may seem like the low hanging fruit of the social / collaboration initiatives. As adoption and maturity of social software increases, enterprises are increasingly looking beyond these to more advanced and complex collaboration use cases ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 11-Apr-2012
We've recently published our "2012 Enterprise Search Market Analysis." After 2011's raft of acquisitions, this year promises to be another interesting one for search customers: ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-Apr-2012
This is the most common question that my colleagues and I encounter from our customers who are in the process of evaluating options for building a web property.
The reason is not difficult to find. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 9-Apr-2012
Google has been promoting its broad suite of "Google Apps for Business" as -- among other things -- an enterprise collaboration and social computing offering, aiming to compete with the likes of SharePoint.
To that end, Google has won a handful of big deals, but in discussions with some larger early adopters, a hype cycle appears to be playing out: ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 6-Apr-2012
We've just updated our Enterprise Portals research with updates to our reviews of IBM WebSphere and Liferay.
Within the Portals marketplace, IBM and Liferay seem to be the ones that most frequently appear on customer short lists ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 5-Apr-2012
About a year back, when Apache Rave was announced, I had mentioned in my blog that It will be a while before Rave reaches a stage where customers can actually benefit from it. Now Rave has graduated to become an Apache top-level project. That itself is an achievement and congratulations are in order to the team supporting Rave. But is Rave anywhere closer to realizing its promise, and is it good enough today for you to consider it seriously for your Portal? ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 4-Apr-2012
Like Razuna, Pixelboxx is a brand new vendor we started covering in our Digital Asset Management report. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 3-Apr-2012
There is an oft-repeated story about the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw and the dancer Isadora Duncan.
Ms. Duncan suggested the exciting possibilities of their marriage: "Think of our child; with your brains and my body, what a wonder it would be."
Bernard Shaw replied, ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 2-Apr-2012
Well, that's a buzzword-compliant question...but an important one nonetheless.
Consider that:
Since Box wants to become more enterprise-y ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 19-Mar-2012
Today we release version 4.2 of our Digital & Media Asset Management Report, which includes 25+ new pages of detailed evaluations of four very different vendors in the DAM & MAM markets. ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 12-Mar-2012
Having been rather cynical on the subject of Big Data, it was reassuring to see a full-house at a recent Computer Weekly "CW500 Club" gathering dedicated to the subject. Nevertheless, I came away with more questions than answers about the value of this topic right now for business users. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 8-Mar-2012
We just released an update to our Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Report which evaluates nineteen Enterprise 2.0 vendors. Version 4.1 includes updated reviews of three software suites (Jive, Socialtext, blueKiwi) and two specialists (MindTouch, Mediawiki).
Here’s a quick snapshot of what you’ll find in this update: ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 5-Mar-2012
Customers often face considerable overlaps in features among different types of content technologies. For example, an enterprise portal system can be used to build websites, but a web content management system can sometimes deliver portal-like services. This can all get very confusing!
I am conducting a free webinar this Wednesday that will help you make sense of different content technologies ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Mar-2012
Yammer -- perhaps the most well-known of enterprise microblogging tools -- is driving CIOs crazy. I'm not referring here to Yammer's now famous "freemium" approach of getting your colleagues hooked on a free version and then upselling a more enterprisey edition. The real problem is this: ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 2-Mar-2012
CoreMedia's recent announcement that are targeting Media and Entertainment customers with set of specific -- albeit somewhat vague -- new functionalities for that segment raises an interesting question ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 1-Mar-2012
In the highly-fragmented Web Content & Experience Management marketplace, cloud or SaaS vendors do have their niche. But that niche remains quite narrow. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Feb-2012
Train and Metro networks around the world are perpetually under construction, with new lines getting added regularly and existing ones getting a makeover. We are also adding a new line called "Digital Marketing" to our own Vendor Map.
As I noted in this blog post, Digital Marketing can cover a panoply of different tools and technologies for Marketers. In our new research, we will cover vendors that focus on the following aspects of Digital Marketing ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 27-Feb-2012
Every now and then a software company just up and dies. It doesn't happen often, and usually the tell-tale warning signs have been accumulating for years. As you the customer assess your current and potential crop of technology suppliers, it's worth reviewing autopsy reports for lessons learned.
The latest victim in the Web Content & Experience Management (WCXM) space is Refresh Software, who finally called it quits ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Feb-2012
The Web Content & Experience Management marketplace remains highly fragmented, although it has seen more M&A activity in the past year. Given the plethora of vendor choices, prospective WCXM customers should take a multidimensional approach to identify the best fit for their individual situation ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 20-Feb-2012
This week, whilst I sat on one of London's First Capital Connect's delightful 1950's railway carriages traveling to the RSG UK office, I imagined a conversation a decade or so hence....
"So, Uncle Matt, what do you remember most about 2012? Was it the London Olympics?"
"Well my impertinent nephew, 2012 was in fact the year we learned about 'Big Data'." ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 13-Feb-2012
"Gamification" is the buzzword du jour. Many enterprises looking to socialize their digital workplace and consumer-facing applications are investigating whether gamification makes sense for them. A closer look at the topic suggests that both optimism and skepticism are in order ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Feb-2012
It is becoming quite the fad these days in the world of ECM (Enterprise Content Management) to make dramatic and seemingly generous gestures to liberate buyers locked into legacy systems ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Feb-2012
OK, so it's not exactly Desperate Housewives or Survivor or Social Business when it comes to juicy topics, but it's important stuff. And in the rush for organizations to leap aboard the latest 2.0 bandwagon, they often overlook substantial efficiency gains or kick them to the side ... 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 Apoorv Durga on 8-Feb-2012
The open source eXo portal platform released their latest version 3.5 last week. eXo platform is a "portal-like" offering that we cover in our Portals and Content Integration report. It's based on the GateIn open source portal container that eXo co-developed with Red Hat JBoss. ... Continue Reading
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 Apoorv Durga on 6-Feb-2012
Last week, IBM acquired erstwhile partner Worklight, an Israel-based vendor.
Worklight is a platform for developing mobile applications that enables you to build ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 31-Jan-2012
You already know that marketing is evolving and becoming increasingly digitally focused. That means today's marketers must become much more proficient across various marketing technologies to be fully effective. But what should a marketer's technology toolkit contain? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Jan-2012
We've just updated our longstanding "subway map" for 2012.
Biggest changes have come around acquisitions (e.g., HP), and ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 30-Jan-2012
This week, the Joomla! community released version 2.5 of its open source CMS package. There are many new features but the key highlights of the new release are ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Jan-2012
We've just released an advisory paper, "Are cloud-based file-sharing services too immature for the enterprise?” ... 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 Theresa Regli on 24-Jan-2012
Today we publish our 2012 Digital & Media Asset Management Market Overview. Things are markedly more exciting in the DAM & MAM world as we start 2012, versus the relatively calmer 2011. Product development has picked up, in particular among mid-size and large DAM vendors, as they attempt to beef up their feature offerings to cover more of the digital & media management spectrum ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 23-Jan-2012
MediaBeacon is one of the bright and blinking stars of the Digital Asset Management world. Led by the ebullient and opinionated Jason Bright, the Minneapolis-based company has a much larger footprint on the market than the small size of the company would suggest. MediaBeacon's DAM tool is among the industry's more flexible and standards-based, and though largely focused on brand management scenarios, the company made extensive efforts to add video management features over the last 18 months ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Jan-2012
We've just released a major update (Version 4.0) to our Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Report, which evaluates nineteen Enterprise 2.0 vendors. Our subscribers will see several new vendors under review as well as an overhauled set of evaluation criteria ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 20-Jan-2012
We recently attended the Click Asia Summit in Mumbai, a gathering for digital and social media marketers in the region. Here are the mantras and maxims, tidbits and trivia from the event ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Jan-2012
We have recently published our Document Management - ECM Market Analysis for 2012, and as a where-is-the-marketplace-headed snapshot, I think it's an interesting one. I have been writing these since the late 1990s and it's one of several analyst tasks that I really look forward to ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Jan-2012
In the enterprise search community there has been a lot of talk recently about the lack of deep coverage by major analyst firms such as Gartner and Forrester. Many feel slighted and believe that their industry is a large and thriving one, one that is unjustly ignored ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 23-Dec-2011
Social software vendor Jive Software recently announced a new module called Fathom for Social Media Monitoring. Fathom comes as a free add-on to an existing Jive 5 setup. It provides basic capabilities for monitoring content across Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, blogs and other sources. Fathom Pro, a paid upgrade to the free version, adds some advanced analytics and intelligence capabilities to the free module ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 20-Dec-2011
There is usually a common theme that drives M&A in the technology sector and this season it is the "cloud." For example, in the last couple of months Oracle bought RightNow (cloud-based customer service) and IBM acquired DemandTec (cloud-based retail analytics). The trend seems to be spreading to the social software space as well ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-Dec-2011
At such time you decide you need a mobile presence for your corporate website or for an enterprise application, you'll face some key decision points, the outcome of which will define how you execute on a mobile strategy ... 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 Tony Byrne on 5-Dec-2011
Like all analyst firms, every year-end we make predictions. I think we're fairly unique, though, in going back to see how our earlier predictions fared. Let's see whether our predictions for 2011 actually panned out. These were the twelve predictions we made in December, 2010 ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 23-Nov-2011
Every few years, someone declares one type of Web Content Management (CMS) software on the verge of "liftoff," to take over the entire space. Early last decade, people tried to convince me that open source was going to dominate the world "by 2005." ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Nov-2011
We've just released a minor update to our Web CMS Report, which evaluates 42 major products from around the globe. Version 20.3 includes updated reviews of ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Nov-2011
Recently I fulfilled a lifelong ambition to be an actor (minor parts - small films) and I finally came to understand the meaning of the thespian question, "What is my motivation?"
It is an important question that we probably don't ask enough, and buyers might want to ask the same of ECM (Enterprise Content Management) suppliers. Yes, seriously ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 18-Nov-2011
Perceptive Software, which was acquired by Lexmark a while back, has announced a new product for Document Output Management (DOM) called ModusOne. It is a separate product that can work with or without ImageNow, Perceptive's Document Management tool that we evaluate in our Document Management Report ... 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 14-Nov-2011
We've just published an advisory paper for our ECM and SharePoint subscribers (non subscribers can purchase it here) analyzing the implications of large enterprise buyers considering Box.Net alongside Microsoft SharePoint ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Nov-2011
Enterprise Search engines can be divided neatly into two categories: those optimized for website search and those optimized for searching across internal information silos. Today the gap between the two is opening ever wider ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 4-Nov-2011
One of the arguments against building downloadable, native apps for mobile devices -- as opposed to browser-based web apps -- is that you sacrifice portability. Since you use platform-specific APIs, the argument goes, you will need to develop your app separately for each of the platforms you want to support. However, this argument is starting to get diluted, as emerging approaches can get the best of both worlds ... 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 Tony Byrne on 24-Oct-2011
This question is popping up pretty frequently among our advisory subscribers. It's a subtle question in some ways, but also laden with great import for both intranet/collaboration managers and public website marketers ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 24-Oct-2011
In our recently updated Digital & Media Asset Management Report version 4.0, you'll find several new entrants to our research that I want to introduce to you. Let's start with Adobe Scene7 ... 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 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 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 Tony Byrne on 11-Oct-2011
Last week at OracleWorld the company announced that it was renaming and re-focusing its WebCenter "Connect" offering to "Oracle Social Network." A new emphasis on social networking services and middleware integration could prove promising, but real business value today comes from effective collaboration efforts that deliver quick business benefits out of the box, with a social kicker downstream. Oracle is a bit late to this party ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 10-Oct-2011
While SharePoint's "cloud" ambitions started many years ago, the perfect storm of Azure (another major component of this year's SharePoint conference), Office365 and improved development tools have created the fertile environment for adoption. When Microsoft first announced cloud services like Business Productivity Online Suite and, specifically SharePoint Online, it was a way to stretch the existing SharePoint 2007 product, without the expectation of being truly successful. It was, however, a good proving ground to enable Microsoft to learn about how SharePoint could play -- or not -- in a shared environment ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-Oct-2011
Once you decide to mobile-enable your enterprise information systems, the key question you need to address is whether to provide mobile access via Mobile Web (browser-based interfaces) or by offering downloadable applications ("apps").
This is a longstanding debate and proponents of both approaches will point to numerous benefits ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 7-Oct-2011
As the SharePoint conference wraps up its third day, it is as clear as ever that the platform is nothing short of a proverbial freight train. As evidence ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Oct-2011
Below is an excerpt from an interview I had with with Australian journalist David Walker. I thought it worth re-publishing here too. In a wide ranging chat undertaken whilst I was grumpy and jetlagged we discussed amongst other things Interwoven (now Autonomy soon to be HP), Vignette (OpenText), and Microsoft ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 30-Sep-2011
We just released a major update to our Digital & Media Asset Management Report. In this update, version 4.0, we've added: ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Sep-2011
Next Wednesday I will be hosting a free SharePoint-themed webinar. My intent is to look at SharePoint in 2011, its victories to date and its challenges ahead. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 25-Sep-2011
Last week, we released Version 9 of our Portals and Content Integration Report.
We have made many updates to the existing vendor reviews. Most enterprise portal vendors have released minor or major updates to their tools and so we have refreshed our evaluations to reflect those changes.
Besides individual vendor evaluations, the other key updates 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 15-Sep-2011
Web Experience Management (WEM) is the latest buzz word in the WCM marketplace, having been adopted -- at least in theory -- by vendors small and large. I recently took a closer look at two of the larger vendors: FatWire Content Server (Oracle Sites after being acquired by Oracle) and OpenText WEM (the former Vignette WCM). ... 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 23-Aug-2011
Earlier this summer we held a mini-summit of some RSG analysts and captured each others' thoughts in a series of short videos. In this one I make three broad technology predictions: ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 22-Aug-2011
Vendors are increasingly using more abstract labels to describe their products. Doubtless all these vendors employ well-staffed marketing departments who spend a lot of time working up this sort of nomenclature ... 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 Apoorv Durga on 13-Aug-2011
Portal tools have a reputation for being complex and heavy-weight. But do they have a role to play in today's enterprise? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Aug-2011
Most of the Web Content Management vendors we evaluate claim to have some sort a cloud option.
For many of these vendors, this boils down to one of two things: ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Jul-2011
With the amount of exposure for SEO nowadays, a whole industry has sprung up around it. And CMS vendors have been quick to jump on the bandwagon, offering a myriad of SEO "features," "modules," "plugins," and "wizards." From what we can see, customers are finding it increasingly hard to distinguish sense from nonsense ... Continue Reading
Added By Sanjeev Gupta on 19-Jul-2011
The Joomla! open source WCM community today released version 1.7, just 6 months after the release of 1.6. Perhaps because the development team has been busy stabilizing a 1.6 trunk that was packed with many new features, version 1.7 does not offer much of significance for end users ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-Jul-2011
Many web publishers have been trying to work out how best to make use of social channels such as Facebook and Twitter. It's only recently that some decent integration methods and clarity on what works have started to emerge. Now comes Google with its own social network Google+. While most people are trying to figure out how it competes with Facebook, it has also added an additional channel for web publishers ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-Jul-2011
Some enterprises do indeed want to apply retention policies to employee tweets. EntropySoft, a content integration and migration vendor, has released a new connector for Twitter. EntropySoft already has a set of connectors that get OEM'ed into various packaged content and document management systems, many of which we cover in our evaluation reports ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 11-Jul-2011
Sitecore has acquired Pectora, an erstwhile partner that has solutions for print publishing. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-Jul-2011
Content Acquisition (or Ingestion) is an important step in many business processes. A form is a common way to acquire content or information for these business processes. Forms are everywhere - you fill up a form to buy an insurance policy, apply for a visa or request a new home loan. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 4-Jul-2011
This week, we release version 4.0 of our Search Report. This is a major update and refreshes many sections of the report. In particular, the following were the major objectives and resulting changes ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 29-Jun-2011
By now you know that Microsoft SharePoint has a 3-year development cycle. Three years is not a long time for highly process-oriented functionality, like many types of document management applications. However, a long development cycle is a significant shortcoming in areas like Collaboration/Social and Web Content Management, where Redmond's circa-2009 codebase feels increasingly out of step ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Jun-2011
It's a discussion that reoccurs regularly enough with Real Story Group Document Management (ECM) subscribers -- how do I get skilled ECM staff? It's a tough question to answer ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 27-Jun-2011
In our recent 20.1 release of the WCM Report, we’ve updated evaluations of several CMS vendors in the .NET arena, including DotNetNuke, Ektron, Kentico, SharePoint. The mid-market product tier is a bit like the crowded Grand Central station: ... 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 Tony Byrne on 20-Jun-2011
Last week we released a significant update to our comparative Web Content Management vendor reviews. There's a lot to conclude here about what's going on in the marketplace, but for now, I'll just summarize some of the new info from our revised evaluations ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 17-Jun-2011
Well, that's what some of the hype in the market would have you believe. Let's look at what's driving this. The last decade has seen continuous improvements to search technology. At least in theory, today's search engines can crawl more complex repositories, can handle many more documents, and run faster and more efficiently. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Jun-2011
Capture + workflow = ECM.
It's a simple formula that works most of the time in enterprise environments. It works for the simple reason that most electronic documents that require organizational attention typically are captured and proceed down a structured workflow ... 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 Apoorv Durga on 30-May-2011
The software engineering community has spawned many different methods to estimate levels of effort for implementing projects. You could debate the validity or accuracy yielded by these projection methods, but the fact remains that they're widely employed. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 25-May-2011
We recently updated our Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Report. Key highlights for this update: ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 17-May-2011
In the 15 years I've been working with Web CMS technology, there's always been a gap between what vendors say their tools can do, and what customers actually accomplish with those tools. Upon the 20th edition release of our Web Content Management vendor evaluations, it's become clear that this gap has never been wider ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-May-2011
Well, it has been almost a year since Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch announced that his firm was to make a major acquisition. Today it happened. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 13-May-2011
You may not think that technology markets have seasons, but they do — and spring is digital asset management season in the Northern Hemisphere. There's many conferences focused on digital asset and media management during the spring, and we at Real Story Group have been in the thick of updating and expanding our DAM evaluation research ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-May-2011
I have been attending and speaking at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York this week, a good conference with many opportunities to rub shoulders and pick the brains of smart folk. But it's also an event that gives me a sense of deja-vu, since so little appears to change in the world of search. In fact I am fairly convinced that I could pull out a presentation from a decade back, brush off the dust, and present it with a straight face today ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 6-May-2011
The initially meteoric rise of Second Life gave visibility to a (mostly) new crop of vendors looking to apply "immersive" or "virtual" experiences to enterprise collaboration ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 5-May-2011
In any content management system -- web content management (WCM), document management (DM) or digital asset management (DAM) -- how content gets persisted is an important aspect of the overall content lifecycle ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 3-May-2011
If you ask "What is a Portal" on twitter, you will likely get numerous replies depending on tweeples' point of view. For some, their Intranet is a Portal, while for others a public search engine is their Portal, and for still some others their own website is a Portal. Instead of ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 27-Apr-2011
This week, OpenText released version 8.1 of their WCM product. It features new media management capabilities, better support for mobile devices (result of their weComm acquisition) and some other enhancements. But more importantly, they ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 27-Apr-2011
With seemingly everyone attached to a mobile device these days, you'd think delivering an optimal experience would be old hat by now for Web Content Management products. You'd be wrong ... 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 Apoorv Durga on 18-Apr-2011
If you ever used primitive site-builder services like Geocities or Tripod, you probably remember how you could select from a set of pre-defined templates, add a guest book, and embed some dancing gifs or a free jingle, to create simple (mostly personal) web pages. Since a mobile site is the new "in thing" now, many of these services that were popular in early days are making a come back ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Apr-2011
People often ask me about the origins of The Real Story Group (formerly CMS Watch). How and why did we come into being? What made (and makes) us different? ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-Apr-2011
As always, the specific answer depends on your particular requirements. Nevertheless, based on our customer research and recent product CMS selection experience, we can generalize that SharePoint remains poorly suited for most external web publishing environments ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Apr-2011
I'm pleased to share the results from some new, path-breaking research we've been conducting this year. Content Management technology is no longer necessary. Read the full release here ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 31-Mar-2011
I led a session at last week's Info360 event in Washington DC called "ECM & BI - a Shotgun Marriage." I was unsure about it from the get-go, as my fear was that I would spend 45 minutes essentially making a single point: that these two things are largely incompatible. What actually transpired was a bit more interesting ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Mar-2011
You may hear from pundits that enterprise portal technology has become obsolete. The story line goes like this: Portal tools put heavy demand on infrastructure, are complex to implement, and can prove too inflexible for today's agile use cases. But is portal software really dying, and should you still care about it? ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 21-Mar-2011
It’s been only a little over year since EMC admitted its ineptitude in the realm of Web Content Management, and graciously invited FatWire to share the stage and play the role of a lovey-dovey partner. Today, another WCM vendor joined the affair -- SDL with its SDL Tridion Web CMS ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 14-Mar-2011
For most enterprises, selecting technology can be like picking a winner of the NCAA basketball tournament ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 9-Mar-2011
OpenText continues its long acquisition spree. After acquiring Metastorm last month, it has now acquired UK-based weComm, a vendor in the mobility space ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Mar-2011
What could have been a snoozefest in fact turned into a full-on attack of the value and promise of Cloud Computing ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Mar-2011
This past week in Los Angeles I spent a little time talking with three well established ECM (Enterprise Content Management) integrators and resellers. All three had started out business more than ten years ago, and had initially specialized in building and implementing solutions for the likes of Documentum, FileNet, Hyland, and OpenText ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 3-Mar-2011
More than eight years after its inception in pure VB.NET, open source project DotNetNuke decided to make a leap and move its entire CMS core to the more modern and widely supported C# ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 2-Mar-2011
This seems to be a season of "proposals" by open source vendors to attach pieces of their code to a larger foundation. It sounds promising, but the benefits for you the customer could remain far off ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 28-Feb-2011
What should you make of a new product "distribution" that a CMS vendor develops in an effort to supplement its very platform-like offering with a more out-of-the-box product? ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Feb-2011
On the 28th and 29th March, my colleague Jarrod Gingras and I will be hosting the inaugural SharePoint Strategy Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Feb-2011
This Thursday 17 February I'll be hosting a free webinar focused on Digital Asset Management (DAM) product selection. I hope you can join me ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 11-Feb-2011
Today we published our 2011 Portal and Content Migration Market Analysis. It also includes a "Cross-Check" chart that visually charts risks and opportunities ... 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 Apoorv Durga on 8-Feb-2011
Google demonstrated Android 3.0 -- a.k.a., Honeycomb -- last week. Honeycomb is a version of their mobile operating system optimized for tablets. It works within a bigger form factor, and also packs in much more power to be able to run videos, games, and other applications better. But that's not the point of this post ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-Feb-2011
We have released an update to our Portals and Content Integration Report. In this release, we've updated the following evaluations ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Feb-2011
I can hardly believe it (joking) but OpenText has acquired yet another technology company (first picked up by my colleague Irina yesterday). This time around it is US-based BPM (Business Process Management) firm Metastorm ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 1-Feb-2011
There is no more challenging an environment for true ECM (Enterprise Content Management) than that of healthcare ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Jan-2011
There are many ways to visualize the Web CMS marketplace. Our evaluation research lines up competing vendors head-to-head across several dozen criteria for you to compare, but we also know there's going more to your experience with a particular technology than scenario and technical fit ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 17-Jan-2011
An omnibus platform like SharePoint presents two challenges to Microsoft in the web publishing arena:
Neither challenge is prohibitive, but both are potentially problematic ... 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 Jarrod Gingras on 11-Jan-2011
Last week we released our 2011 Document Management (ECM) Market Analysis which includes the 2011 Document Management Cross-Check. Next week, my colleague Alan Pelz-Sharpe, will shares the latest findings on the Document & Records Management market in a free webinar ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jan-2011
Here's our latest "Content Technology Vendor Map," updated for 2011. We've accounted for several marketplace changes, and happily, numerous new stations. Many of you have asked us in the past to interpret the map and explain further how it can help you, so we'll do just that ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Jan-2011
We've just updated our evaluations of five Web CMS offerings, and added a new one (Atex Polopoly) to our report ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 6-Jan-2011
Last week we updated our evaluations of seven DAM vendors ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 5-Jan-2011
Today we published our analysis of the 2011 Document & Records Management marketplace, including our "Cross-Check" review of buyer risk ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 5-Jan-2011
Business users want easy access to content and don't tend to care where it gets stored. However, the mechanics of storage have always been an important consideration for IT and System Admin folks ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Dec-2010
The longtime document and records management product iManage WorkSite has had a turbulent history: launched in the dot-com boom years, it quickly found an enthusiastic customer base in the Legal sector. Acquired by Interwoven in 2003 it carried on much as before with relatively little interference from the web-centric management at Interwoven. But things change ... 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 16-Dec-2010
CMS vendors and open source community leaders frequently brag about the growing volume of such add-on modules, but for customers this landscape can be confusing and ultimately quite disappointing. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Dec-2010
Yesterday our friends over at AIIM (Association of Imaging and Information Management) hosted a webinar that presented new work by sales & marketing guru Geoffrey Moore called A Future History of Content Management: "A Social Business Revolution" ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 15-Dec-2010
Of late, many WCM as well as Portal vendors are touting their capabilities for more closely aligning content management and presentation management. Frankly, I wonder what took them so long. After all, what good is content if it cannot be delivered and consumed? In my opinion ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-Dec-2010
When you think of a smart phone or when someone tells you about multi-channel delivery, chances are that you are visualizing a cell phone, a PDA, or at the maximum, a tablet such as an iPad or Samsung's Tab ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Dec-2010
One question I get on a regular basis is, "so, what's the best CMS?" And I invariably reply, "it depends." There really is no best CMS; there is only the best fit for you, in your scenarios ... 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 8-Dec-2010
We always follow the communities around specific products quite closely. Whether an open source or commercial closed source system, product communities can give us great input on the real story. But one thing to remember is that the most active and enthusiastic communities are also a really biased source of information ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 6-Dec-2010
Offshoring, along with its many variants like rightshoring and nearshoring is a heavily debated topic. But like everything else, there are advantages as well as challenges that need to be addressed if you have to make it successful. ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 1-Dec-2010
As we approach the end of 2010, it's time for our team of Real Story Group analysts to reveal our 2011 predictions, where we make our best guesses as to what the Content Technology industry will hold for you in the new year ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Nov-2010
Last week I helped my colleague Tony Byrne host the SharePoint Symposium in Washington DC. We ran many of sessions there and had a good turnout at each, hardly surprising of course as SharePoint remains a very hot topic ... 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 Matthew Clapp on 17-Nov-2010
What does it mean to follow 5,000+ people on Twitter? There is no way you can possibly read that much and still have a day job. What does it mean to have 500+ colleagues on LinkedIn and 1000+ friends on Facebook ... Continue Reading
Added By Matthew Clapp on 16-Nov-2010
I admit I was a little nervous when I took this new position evaluating web content management vendors for The Real Story Group. I was sure that I would find myself completely underwater and overwhelmed by advances in technology and process automation ... 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 Apoorv Durga on 12-Nov-2010
A web portal's true potential lies in its ability to access multiple applications across an enterprise backbone, as well as applications residing on the public web. Gadgets have emerged as a lightweight alternative to build portal-like applications for the enterprise ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Nov-2010
In talking to customers for our Collaboration and Social Software evaluations, we've seen many of them struggle to take departmental or smaller-scale pilots to enterprise-wide deployments ... 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 Apoorv Durga on 21-Oct-2010
I'm quite happy to be returning to Aarhus, Denmark to attend the JBoye conference from 2-4 November, 2010. This is one conference where you get to not only learn and interact with others, but also get to network and socialize in a very informal environment ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 19-Oct-2010
I've never been a Hollywood kind of gal. I'd rather read a book than watch a movie, hardly own any makeup, shrug at the sight of of anyone famous (well, except perhaps when I almost walked into Paul McCartney in London a few years ago), and would rather wear a classic black suit than waste time and money on the latest fashion. So, it's not without a bit of hesitation and extra consideration of my wardrobe that I'll pack my bag for my first Hollywood stage appearance, at next month's Henry Stewart Conference on Digital Asset Management ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Oct-2010
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 boasts an extraordinarily large and quite diverse "ecosystem" of consultants, integrators, and add-on software vendors. For customers, though, this landscape can be very confusing ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 15-Oct-2010
We've just updated several vendor evaluations in our Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software technology stream, including ... 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 Apoorv Durga on 14-Oct-2010
Alfresco recently released a new community version 3.4 of its Content Management System. The enterprise version of this will be released later this year. The latest version has some new features as well as enhancements such as a sample application called Web Quick Start, DocLib portlets, Distributed Repository Replication, Enhancements to Alfresco Web Editor (AWE) and Share. ... 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 13-Oct-2010
I hope you know about the forthcoming Enterprise 2.0 Conference, now in its second year on the U.S. west coast (Santa Clara, CA) next month. I'll be kicking off the ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 11-Oct-2010
The second half of this year has seen a lot of activity in the Portals & Content Integration marketplace and several vendors have released updates and in some cases completely new offerings of their products. Last week, we published an update to our Portals evaluation research reflecting some of these upgrades ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 5-Oct-2010
In the latest 11g release of their ECM suite, Oracle has made some key changes that they claim will make the platform more open and less proprietary. But there's a catch. ... 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 Tony Byrne on 27-Sep-2010
Are you an Intranet leader expected to stay abreast of multiple related technologies? If so, please join me for a complimentary webinar next Monday ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 27-Sep-2010
What, your system vendor doesn't have an app store yet? Apple has popularized the concept, and most phone platforms now have something similar: Google's Android Market and Nokia's Ovi Store come to mind. So now everyone has to have one, not just devices, but enterprise software as well ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 27-Sep-2010
It seems every new technology gets labeled "social," and every vendor wants to be "global", "leader", "first," or some combination of these. So it's important to get the real story and follow a structured approach to product selection. With this in mind ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Sep-2010
It's easy to get caught up in the announcements of new and exciting stuff -- and even easier to have forgotten about them when they quietly leave the stage. Case in point: Cuil and Clusty ... 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 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 Tony Byrne on 22-Sep-2010
This month, we've updated our evaluations of three Web CMS vendors: ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 21-Sep-2010
Rather quietly, IBM has replaced the search index within their OmniFind Enterprise Edition. The latest release of this search engine, version 9.1 supports new search collections that are based on Lucene ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Sep-2010
Next week (Thursday 23rd) I will be in New York to speak at the new Creatasphere DAM conference. I must confess I am really looking forward to this particular event as it sort of kicks off my personal event season, and does so in some style ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Sep-2010
There are many ways to categorize technology vendors. In our evaluation reports we get into considerations of cost, architecture, functionality, vendor intangibles, and many other criteria. Selecting the right software is a multi-dimensional exercise ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Sep-2010
HP has been offering Document and Records Management (RM) for two years. Yet, buyers typically don't short-list the vendor, and many don't even know that HP has an offering in this space ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-Sep-2010
Dynamic Publishing Systems manage the assembly of reusable components for publishing, along with the delivery of aggregated content to multiple personalized channels. Some examples of Dynamic Publishing are: ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Sep-2010
Our product evaluations are here for one purpose alone -- to provide buyers with truly independent, technical, and critical assessments of the products they are considering. What this means in practice is that some products get added to our services, and others quietly get dropped ... 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 Tony Byrne on 8-Sep-2010
Our colleague Phil Kemelor offers a briefing for our Web Analytics research subscribers assessing IBM's recent acquisition of Unica. To quote ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 6-Sep-2010
If there is anything I follow just as closely if not more closely than the world of content management, it is the world of food. If I'm not talking to customers about DAM vendors or watching demos of the latest software, you can safely bet I'm either shopping for food, cooking, hosting friends for a lavish multi-course meal ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 1-Sep-2010
Ok you probably did a double take when you saw that Hyland had acquired Hershey's. Sadly the world of chocolate and ECM are not about to merge. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 30-Aug-2010
Last week, I attended two conferences in Delhi. Coincidentally, both of them were on similar topics. The first one, organized by Indian trade body, NASSCOM was about mobile Internet and appstores, while the second one was about mobile applications (although it ended up as a conference for sales pitches by device vendors) ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 19-Aug-2010
There's an odd fascination with equestrianism in technology. Vendor landscapes are often described as horse races; there's leaders and laggards, winners and losers. That's great for gamblers, investors, and jockeys. But it's not very useful ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Aug-2010
There's a lot of mysticism shrouding Autonomy's mega-search offering, "IDOL." Not in the least bit because every piece of software that is acquired by the vendor is either "plugged into," "powered by," or "integrated with" IDOL. Supposedly, ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 17-Aug-2010
You should be forewarned that in their quest for improving presentation management, vendors are soft-pedaling many core CMS concepts which haven't really seen a lot of innovation in recent times, and this, too, could impact your website visitor experience. ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Aug-2010
Explaining technical concepts -- which are often quite abstract -- can be quite a challenge. So at the Real Story Group we often try to be creative in how we go about explaining things ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 11-Aug-2010
In a new Advisory Briefing for our SharePoint and ECM subscribers, we evaluate how the CMIS connector targets different use cases where SharePoint needs to inter-operate or co-exist with other applications. ... 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 Tony Byrne on 29-Jul-2010
This month we updated evaluations for four Web CMS vendors: SaaS players Clickability and OmniUpdate, as well as Drupal and GOSS ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Jul-2010
Adobe Systems today announced their intent to acquire Day Software. We've seen Adobe featuring in many Content Management RFPs and although they had some of the necessary pieces including Adobe Contribute and LiveCycle, they were never taken seriously as a Content Management player. An OEM deal with Alfresco a few years back though well intentioned didn't help much but this announcement will surely change the situation dramatically. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 19-Jul-2010
JackBe, one of the Mashup vendors we cover in our Portals and Content Integration Research, announced version 3.0 of their Mashup product Presto. The new version features enhancements ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 19-Jul-2010
I started working the Web Analytics Report for The Real Story Group (formerly CMS Watch) three years ago. It took me six months to complete the first edition, working pretty much full time. This was a new endeavor; the only other coverage of the web analytics space was done by ... 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 13-Jul-2010
Yesterday morning I was reading through Oracle's recently updated price list (yes my Monday mornings really are that exciting). I was thinking that I have long valued the fact that I can access simple, clear and open prices from major vendors like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. I might occasionally gasp at the prices listed ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Jul-2010
I'll agree with mega-vendor Autonomy on one key point: Search technology is really important. But is it so important that search functionality should dominate your choice in a content management system? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 7-Jul-2010
I sometimes warn that a vendor's content management system is well suited to "simple" scenarios, but not necessarily a good fit for "more complex" cases. That's a bit problematic: ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Jul-2010
Well, it was to be expected: after a long wait, WordPress 3.0 got released just when I was on a short holiday. (WordPress admins shouldn't be allowed to take holidays for that exact reason.) ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 1-Jul-2010
Now that we've built content management to reach into the clouds, have we been punished by a confusion of tongues? Sure, there are tangible differences between, say, a page-based or a component-based system. And some labels are rooted in their underlying technology. Still, there's a couple of archetypes we could at least attempt to label similarly ... 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 Apoorv Durga on 28-Jun-2010
Although released a couple of weeks back, Red Hat made a formal announcement of the release of their new JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform (EPP 5) on Thursday at the Red Hat summit in Boston. As we have mentioned before, this release is a completely re-architected platform built on GateIn, the portal they jointly developed with eXo. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Jun-2010
I'm in the middle of reviewing feedback for a number of ECM product evaluations that I'm presently updating. The upgrade from minor version to minor version (1.7 to 1.8 etc) is usually heralded by loud marketing cries from the suppliers. Closer inspection though tends to reveal fixes and gaps plugged, rather than anything revolutionary ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Jun-2010
Yesterday, we officially released our updated Portal vendor evaluations, but under a new title, ": Portals and Content Integration." ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 22-Jun-2010
We've just released an update to our Portals evaluation research. Along with updates to the individual portal vendor evaluations, we have expanded the scope of our research to include a new category of related solutions that enable you to integrate and aggregate content from multiple sources ... 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 Tony Byrne on 18-Jun-2010
Please join me for a free webinar -- "When Google Analytics Isn't Enough: Alternatives in the Web Analytics Marketplace, 2010" -- examining the pros, cons, and alternatives to Google Analytics, on Tuesday, 29 June, at 1:00pm EDT ... 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 Tony Byrne on 16-Jun-2010
IBM announced yesterday that it's acquiring web analytics vendor Coremetrics (dang: just after we last updated our vendor map...) ... 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 Tony Byrne on 15-Jun-2010
Here's our latest take on the marketplaces we cover. We still can't fit all the vendors we evaluate, but we're getting closer ... 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 Apoorv Durga on 14-Jun-2010
One of our predictions for this year was about the rise of mobile as a delivery channel -- much more closely integrated with your content technologies. Most vendors provide some sort of mechanism for delivering content to mobile channels ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jun-2010
I participated in an interesting workshop at the 2.0 Council last week where one of the big debates was -- inevitably -- the tension between behemoth collaboration platforms (especially SharePoint) vs. point solutions for social computing ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Jun-2010
You may have noticed Facebook "Like" buttons spring up everywhere on the web the past few months ... 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 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 3-Jun-2010
I was myself once a systems integrator, and many of my friends still work for systems integrators. This is my roundabout way of saying sorry in advance for the following video ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 2-Jun-2010
When I talk to people about Mashups, I find many of them are really thinking of iGoogle-type, dashboard-style applications, assembled using Gadgets and Widgets ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Jun-2010
This week we updated a slew of Web Content Management vendor evaluations. Over the past two quarters we've touched every vendor review in one way or another, so this latest update officially represents ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 1-Jun-2010
Microsoft has created much broader management capabilities and better integration services. SharePoint now carries many more enterprise features, like business intelligence reporting and managed metadata. The resulting package is an increasingly complex platform that may have become that very complicated tool it originally displaced ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 28-May-2010
There's always a high energy level at the semi-annual Enterprise 2.0 Conference, and I expect this June's Boston event will be no exception. Please consider joining me there ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 25-May-2010
Today I'm excited to announce the release of a major update to our Digital Asset Management evaluation research stream ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 24-May-2010
The world of document management is not one that most people associate with fun, laughter and good times. It has been described (by me on occasion) as about as exciting as watching paint dry ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 20-May-2010
Within a week of the official SharePoint 2010 launch announcement, the platform's broad ecosystem was buzzing with parallel announcements about integrations, add-ons, and support options. Contrast this with ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 19-May-2010
More than two years after it's last major version was released, the Web CMS project Joomla! has announced the beta version of its next major release (1.6). For an open source project, that's a lot of time between two versions. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-May-2010
Alan and I wrote this piece (requires free registration) for CFO Connect, a thought-leadership magazine for CFOs and other senior finance professionals operating in India. The idea was to introduce people to Compliance and how ECM's strong technology platform can help companies meet their compliance needs. ... 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 12-May-2010
Microsoft and its partners have good reason to party, but for you the celebrations could come prematurely ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-May-2010
It seems to be acronym soup week, and though we can all be guilty of cooking this particular recipe at times, EMC is becoming a master chef ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-May-2010
I have been in the document management business for over 20 years now, and though on the one hand ECM and Document Management technology has moved into the mainstream, in other regards it remains in the dark ages ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-May-2010
So onto number three in our family tree mini-series, Autonomy. As a Brit that lives in the US, I find Autonomy an interesting vendor to watch ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 6-May-2010
CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Specification) has been ratified as a standard by OASIS. What is it and what does it mean to buyers and users of ECM and Document Management technology? ... 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 Apoorv Durga on 27-Apr-2010
FatWire recently announced two new products -- Gadget Server and Community Server -- both aimed at website visitors ... 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 Tony Byrne on 21-Apr-2010
Yesterday we released our "Cross-Check" for Web Analytics vendors, circa mid-2010 ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 20-Apr-2010
You may have heard of the 90/9/1 rule of social engagement: in essence, the rule posits that in a community, 90% of the people are passive readers; 9% are active participants; and 1% account for creating the majority of content ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Apr-2010
Last week we updated several WCM vendor evaluations, including ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Apr-2010
Let's move onto number two in our mini-series of ECM "family trees," EMC Documentum. (The first tree was Open Text.) ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 16-Apr-2010
This is just a little tiff between vendors, so why should you care? Well, both are making it abundantly clear that a vendor is not a neutral source of information ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Apr-2010
We've just published our 2010 ECM and Document Management Market Analysis, and it makes for fascinating reading ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Apr-2010
This week I have been heads down reviewing RFP responses for a large ECM project. These vendor proposals could give readers the misimpression that the products in a complex suite of modules were all designed on the same drawing board ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Apr-2010
I just finished reading an excellent article in Hedge Funds Review called "Records management in the new regulatory environment." It's piece that echoes much the same message I've been preaching for years now: ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 9-Apr-2010
Enterprise Mashups are becoming popular as a way to create new, dashboard style applications from existing, often disparate applications and data sources. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Apr-2010
When trying to explain what Document Management is to friends and family curious about my work, I often give ask them to think about the last time they visited the doctor or a hospital ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Mar-2010
I recently had the opportunity to publish in Information Management magazine some thoughts on collaboration and social computing architectures for larger enterprises ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 26-Mar-2010
This week, we've updated all 20+ of our search vendor evaluations. My colleague Adriaan Bloem, who obsessively tests search tools and interviews end-users of search systems ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Mar-2010
When Oracle acquired Stellent in 2006 I thought the best piece of technology they got their hands on was the imaging tools that Stellent had themselves previously acquired from Optika ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 24-Mar-2010
Whether the economy has begun to turn the corner, we don't know, but if this graph from Indeed.com is any indication, times have at least not been getting any worse for job-seekers with "content management" on their resumes ... 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 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 Tony Byrne on 19-Mar-2010
As part of our SharePoint Across the Enterprise research stream, we evaluate about thirty Microsoft partner offerings across eight categories. This week we released the first in a series of updated assessments that take into account 2010-related developments ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 15-Mar-2010
Developers know that Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) go a long way in improving productivity and shortening time to market. Some vendors in the marketplaces we cover ship with their own proprietary IDEs, while many others use a plugin to (or otherwise extend) the popular Eclipse or Visual Studio IDEs ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Mar-2010
Last week I received a message from a friend discussing the annual fees his firm pays for their hosted Web CMS. The CMS and associated website are served up by a well-known, Software as a Service ("SaaS") WCM vendor ... 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 Tony Byrne on 8-Mar-2010
Last month we updated several WCM vendor evaluations, including ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Mar-2010
I get that question a lot, especially since one of our main services is called "CMS Watch" ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 26-Feb-2010
In case you weren't thinking "interoperability" was EMC's middle name, EMC hopes to convince the world otherwise with its EDN Monster Mash -- a Developer Challenge designed to showcase the mashability of EMC's Celerra, Centerra, Documentum, and Atmos Online product lines ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 24-Feb-2010
We wrote just the other week about the potential of using devices such as Apple's iPad for accessing enterprise documents. What seemed like good idea for the future turns out to be almost in the here and now ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Feb-2010
Today we released a new advisory paper, "How the New Platforms vs. Products Debate Impacts Your Success." Subscribers to any of our EI Watch, SharePoint Watch, and CMS Watch research streams can ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010
For years now Google has played fast and loose with information confidentiality and privacy issues. As if further proof were needed ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 5-Feb-2010
The launch of Apple's iPad last week has caught the imagination of armchair critics worldwide ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 4-Feb-2010
Enterprises have traditionally used portal technology to aggregate content and functionality from different applications. In that sense, portals have typically been consumers of services ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 2-Feb-2010
Last week we released some significant updates to our Enterprise Portals Research. The latest research reflects significant changes among new versions of several portal platforms, as well as additional details for all the products we cover ... 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 Apoorv Durga on 28-Jan-2010
While Steve Jobs was introducing Apple's iPad, Oracle was explaining its own approach to hybrid hardware/software offerings. Oracle yesterday announced that it has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 26-Jan-2010
Among the various categories of content technologies that we evaluate, Oracle has been very quiet over the past year. For the past two years, actually, Oracle has urged customers and partners to look forward to the "11g" series of upgrades across its various application sets ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Jan-2010
Today the Indian IT services giant Tata announced that it was to acquire BT Mosaic. It's an acquisition worth examining in a little more detail, since we will likely see more of the same over the coming years. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 18-Jan-2010
Last week, I blogged about the increasing trend toward verticalization in the Search & Information Access space. As you may know if you've been reading our Digital & Media Asset Management Research ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Jan-2010
At CMS Watch we frequently have to explain to people why we have separate research streams for WCM (Web Content Management) and ECM (Enterprise Content Management). The explanation is frequently a response to the question, "aren't they just the same thing?" The simple answer is no, they are not ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 13-Jan-2010
The search technology marketplace is getting much more specialized, with important implications for you the customer. There are at least two different ways that software can specialize: Functionally and Vertically ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 12-Jan-2010
Since the birth of SharePoint, Microsoft has marketed it as an internal collaboration platform, during a period when Intranet managers increasingly see collaboration as a high-priority service. Now, players such as Google and HyperOffice are trying to repeat SharePoint's success, using an on-again, off-again "SharePoint Killer" marketing tactic combined with the idea of creating a kind of Intranet-in-a-box alternative. However ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 8-Jan-2010
GateIn -- the collaborative Portal project from Red Hat JBoss and eXo -- has been making decent progress. A beta 4 was released recently the current timeline proposes final release in March, 2010 ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Jan-2010
It's not often that a well-known vendor simply vacates the software space, effectively forfeiting a chunk of the market to competitors. But that's what Open Text has decided to do with its main enterprise search offering. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 5-Jan-2010
Today we release an update to our Search & Information Access subscription service. (You can download a free sample here.) ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 15-Dec-2009
With only a few weeks left in 2009, it's time for our team of CMS Watch analysts to reveal our 2010 predictions, where we make our best guesses as to what the Content Technology industry will hold for you in the new year ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Dec-2009
As 2009 comes to a close, let's take a quick look back at the Web CMS ("WCM") marketplace. (We'll offer some separate predictions for 2010 early next week.) I think the most important development was actually a non-event: for the thirteenth year in row, the quite fragmented WCM marketplace did not "consolidate" in any meaningful way. And this, I believe, is a good thing for you the customer ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 9-Dec-2009
I was first given a preview of Open Text's new Flash-based DAM user interface over a year ago, in the fall of 2008. The release, at the time, was "imminent"; I even put a preview screen shot of the new version in the 2009 edition of our Digital & Media Asset Management research. Fourteen months later, customers of the product formerly known as Artesia are still waiting for v7.0 ... 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 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 Tony Byrne on 10-Jul-2009
One of the questions at a "town hall" debate I facilitated at last month's Enterprise 2.0 conference addressed the topic of information lifecycle management for enterprise social spaces. Most of the attendees didn't seem to think it was necessary. I disagree ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Jul-2009
I frequently receive questions like this: "We're a major regional hospital, what's the best CMS for us?" Or, ... 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 Tony Byrne on 1-Jul-2009
In recent months I've encountered several customers of web analytics mega-vendor Omniture who had a very specific gripe about the platform: ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 1-Jul-2009
Just read an interesting post on Tom Miller's blog summarizing NYC Mayor Bloomberg's keynote note from the Personal Democracy Forum ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Jun-2009
In a clip on YouTube, an interviewer asks passersby in Times Square what a browser is.The surprising result: many think it's a search engine ... 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 Shawn Shell on 29-Jun-2009
Those who have studied physics might be familiar with the "story" of the penny and train. The story goes that if you place a single penny under each wheel ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Jun-2009
As I talk to people in the content-technology industry (if I may call it that), I'm struck by a common thread that has begun to emerge in conversations involving roadmaps and futures ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Jun-2009
We are not market researchers, but we do think it is important for every buyer to grasp a basic understanding of underlying market dynamics ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Jun-2009
We released the latest edition of our Social Software & Collaboration research at the Enterprise 2.0 conference today ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Jun-2009
Self immolation is a rare, some may say mythical event. Yet in the world of content management it is more common than you might think ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Jun-2009
At the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, MA next week I'll be facilitating a discussion on "Social Software: Key Debates" ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 17-Jun-2009
Another reason for portals' resurgence in popularity is the current ubiquity of portals outside of the enterprise ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 15-Jun-2009
While we're not exactly saying that "Enterprise Portals are the new black," ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Jun-2009
....Go to 10 companies with Documentum. In 8-9 of them you will find end-users that know the name ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 11-Jun-2009
I mentioned in an earlier post (about the recent Henry Stewart DAM Symposium) that one of the big trends right now in the DAM world is a shift toward client apps built on Adobe Flex technology ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-Jun-2009
At CMS Watch we evaluate an awful lot of products, and making sense of all this research can be a challenge. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 11-Jun-2009
Last week, I posted a highly critical comment on Google's marketing of the Appliance, version 6 ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Jun-2009
The release of a new major version of the Google Search Appliance usually creates lots of excitement, but that excitement fades quickly once people start to use the machines for real ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 1-Jun-2009
Today we release a major update to our Digital & Media Asset Management research, in tandem with the Henry Stewart DAM Symposium in New York City ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 29-May-2009
Somewhat stealing the thunder of Microsoft's almost-released Bing search, Google presented a preview of Wave yesterday at the I/O Developer conference. So what kind of wave is this? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 27-May-2009
At CMS Watch, we're advocates only for you, the technology customer. But sometimes the customer is unreasonable ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 25-May-2009
After months of high anticipation of what this "Google killer" would bring, Wolfram Alpha was finally opened to the public a week ago ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 25-May-2009
Earlier this week, I blogged about ECM and Open Source -- and the different landscapes buyers will encounter in the Enterprise Content Management marketplace versus the Web Content Management marketplace. I think there's a similar paradigm when it comes to SaaS ... 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 Shawn Shell on 21-May-2009
Perhaps it doesn't strike you as a surprise, but Microsoft just launched the new SharePoint product site using SharePoint 2007 ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 13-May-2009
One of the many great discussions at last week's JBoye conference in Philadelphia centered on Douglas Bowman leaving Google for Twitter ... Continue Reading
Added By Ann Rockley on 12-May-2009
DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) was originated within IBM, and later adopted by OASIS, yet until now ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-May-2009
Next week you can find Alan and I at Interop 2009 in Las Vegas. We'll have a booth there to show some of CMS Watch's latest research, so feel free to stop by and say hello ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-May-2009
We've just released the latest major update to our Web CMS research. (That's Version 17 for those counting.) ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-May-2009
This morning as I awoke at an ridiculously early hour (jet lag), to find my mailbox full of questions from journalists, commentators, and CMS Watch research subscribers asking for my take on the deal. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-May-2009
A couple of weeks back ECM vendor Objective announced that they had acquired Limehouse, a UK social software provider ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 6-May-2009
I'm excited to be headed over to New York next week. The Enterprise Search Summit 2009 brings together a veritable who's-who in search ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 6-May-2009
The business world is full of tumult these days, and times like these are known to give rise to strange bedpartners. But few would have expected the kind of union announced by Open Text just a few hours ago ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 5-May-2009
You might have missed the 21 April announcement from Google Analytics regarding the public availability of its Data Export API ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 4-May-2009
Usually, as an analyst, I'm on the receiving side of briefings, but yesterday I gave one to a CMS Watch subscriber wanting to know more about ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 23-Apr-2009
When the Web Analytics Association (WAA) reviewed the 2008 edition of the CMS Watch Web Analytics Report, they noted that while ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 21-Apr-2009
WCM and DAM systems have historically been on two separate sides of the dance floor ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 21-Apr-2009
Meet Stan, the everyman, who'll try to sell you on Vivisimo Velocity enterprise search software ... 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 Shawn Shell on 16-Apr-2009
Microsoft has recently announced that the new SharePoint version will be called "Microsoft SharePoint 2010" ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 15-Apr-2009
As customers of our SharePoint research know, we've been detailing for some time the paradox of SharePoint 2007: that Microsoft markets it as an out-of-the-box information management system, while Redmond's ample partner channel sees it as an infinitely extendable development platform ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 14-Apr-2009
Since Alex Yoder took over the reins as CEO at web analytics vendor WebTrends in August, the company has been on an active campaign to make itself over on both the image and product development fronts ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 13-Apr-2009
Since Red Hat acquired JBoss back in 2006, it has been very hard for JBoss Portal to meet its roadmap plans ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Apr-2009
One of those easy-to-overlook but important details of a search engine: will it actually read your files? ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 6-Apr-2009
Microsoft recently announced that they are releasing SharePoint Designer (SPD) for free ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Apr-2009
But how much can you really blame them? We report the full story ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Mar-2009
Here's a picture of (left to right) Kas, Jarrod, and Theresa getting ready for various sessions tomorrow ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Mar-2009
Economic downturns tend to accelerate change in the IT world: People with budgetary authority find themselves taking a fresh look ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 25-Mar-2009
How do I know? Some smaller vendors are starting to peddle their CMS wares via spam ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 25-Mar-2009
Today we released some findings pointing out how Web CMS vendors are increasingly embedding website search into their packages ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Mar-2009
Today we released our second online SharePoint education course, "Evaluating SharePoint for Enterprise Deployment ... 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 18-Mar-2009
Autonomy's acquisition of Interwoven formally closed yesterday ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Mar-2009
Spring is here, and, as in Autumn, this means new products released and new version numbers ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Mar-2009
Today we announced some findings from our Web Analytics Report 2009 about the state of the video and mobile analytics ... 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 Tony Byrne on 11-Mar-2009
In calling for greater "online transparency" (i.e., more, better, faster web content) along with more "citizen participation" (i.e., user-generated content), the Obama administration is going to encounter a technology marketplace ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Mar-2009
Demokritos would be proud: if you look very closely, you'll see that Omniture's "SiteSearch" offering is actually composed of Atomz ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Mar-2009
The Dutch government has announced the new website www.rijksoverheid.nl, and has chosen Hippo CMS 7 ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 10-Mar-2009
Do you practice web analytics for a government agency, a non-profit organization, an educational institution, or a branch of the military? ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 6-Mar-2009
We've put together a schedule (pdf) of when we'll be presenting and when we'll be available for office hours at Booth #320 ... 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 Tony Byrne on 3-Mar-2009
CMS Watch seeks a Technology Analyst based in the UK or continental Europe to evaluate Web Content Management and other Content Technology vendors ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Mar-2009
Today we updated our semi-famous "subway map" for 2009 ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 27-Feb-2009
I'm looking forward very much to moderating the ECM Analyst Panel at the AIIM Expo on ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 26-Feb-2009
Web CMS vendors live at an interesting intersection between the new and the old ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Feb-2009
This week Alfresco, together with Ingres, announced the release of ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 25-Feb-2009
In a little less than a month's time, I'll be teaching a half-day course on Enterprise Search Technology in London ... 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 Jarrod Gingras on 23-Feb-2009
Later this week in Toronto and next month in Dallas, I'll be sharing some of our latest research from ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-Feb-2009
For the past year or so there seems to have been a battlefield of sorts emerging between proponents of social networking and all things E2.0 and the more traditional proponents of ECM ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Feb-2009
This is a somewhat rambling post about the enterprise social software marketplace, but there is a thread that runs through it, and that is the role of Intel ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Feb-2009
Methods and definitions in the world of Records Management (and subsequently ECM) have been long established and remain, in many cases, as valid today as they ever have. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Feb-2009
Last night I had the pleasure of presenting to a DC-area Drupal Users' Group on the past and future of open source web content management ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 17-Feb-2009
It's amazing to me that so many of the vendors we cover at CMS Watch (even some that claim to have deep expertise in marketing and social-web sorts of things) still haven't figured out ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Feb-2009
You really can't envy the task of records managers in the public or private sector. Many are still tasked with archiving hard copies of ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 17-Feb-2009
...is web analytics. At least for enterprise use. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Feb-2009
Fine summary in CIO Magazine's blog, about various customer "gag orders" some major ERP vendors are attempting to impose contractually ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Feb-2009
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" -- so the saying goes ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Feb-2009
I teach a lot of intro courses about web technologies, and enjoy them very much. But I'm particularly excited to be teaming with ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Feb-2009
We've had to wait a while: ever since Microsoft acquired Fast Search & Transfer almost exactly a year ago, the big question was what would happen to both FAST ESP and Microsoft's SharePoint ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Feb-2009
After Wired counseled "pulling the plug on your blog" late last year, I decided to came to the defense of blogging ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Feb-2009
We're starting to see more vendors coming out with Flex-based user interfaces, sometimes extending them as full-blown desktop applications ... 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 Shawn Shell on 30-Jan-2009
Well not really. Much in the same way as Henry Ford revolutionized the production of the automobile, enabling a larger population to acquire motorized transportation, Microsoft has ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 28-Jan-2009
SaaS is all the rage these days. It's the one "IT& trend for 2009" no pundit has missed. But the reality is that ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 26-Jan-2009
For the most recent edition of the Search and Information Access Report, I had the opportunity to help expand our coverage of Apache Lucene. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Jan-2009
"Channel partners" are consulting or integration firms that implement or provide supplementary services to a software vendor's technology ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Jan-2009
Today Autonomy announced that they intend to buy Interwoven. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Jan-2009
Leave aside Oracle's impressive roadmap diagrams for Enterprise 2.0 ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 21-Jan-2009
Today is a big day for Alfresco (and Alfresco users). This is the official launch date for Alfresco Labs 3d (Stable), ... 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
Perhaps not an image you'd want lingering in your mind, but yes, in software, you can get a Hippo in drag ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Jan-2009
Retention Management was certainly a buzzword in 2008 ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Jan-2009
The technology sector has been nothing but doom and gloom recently, but a recent report by the Aite Group shines a bit more light on to what is a fairly complex market ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 13-Jan-2009
Let's pick back up on the subject of web analytics data usage that I began in my post last week ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Jan-2009
Since HP acquired Tower Software almost a year ago, I thought it about time to review progress to date ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-Jan-2009
Customer-driven, web self-service will surely become a dominant theme for 2009. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Jan-2009
Quarterly results have never been so closely scrutinized as they are right now. ... 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 Phil Kemelor on 5-Jan-2009
One of the more interesting threads that I've read recently was on the Web Analytics Association Yahoo! Forum ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 4-Jan-2009
After 4 years of growing and energetic conferences in Denmark ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Jan-2009
Recently I've been thinking about two packages we cover -- DotNetNuke (DNN) in The Web CMS Report, and Telligent Community Server in the Enterprise Social Software Report -- in the wake of the rise of SharePoint. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Dec-2008
After spending a good amount of time talking to technology customers in Europe during the last quarter, I've concluded that attitudes towards ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 19-Dec-2008
November brought bad news for all Livelyzens ... 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 Theresa Regli on 18-Dec-2008
Today we release our half-day education course about Digital & Media Asset Management, or DAM... ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Dec-2008
Sitting through countless vendor demos to clients over the past couple of years, I've noticed a trend -- at least among Web CMS and Portal vendors -- of sales engineers ("SEs") emphasizing sales over engineering ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Dec-2008
The ECM world is dominated by EMC, Open Text, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle -- all big vendors with equally big publicity machines to keep their brands and "story" right ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Dec-2008
Today we released our annual predictions for 2009 ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 10-Dec-2008
Earlier this year in June, I argued that JSR 286 might be the last portlet standard, mainly due to the lack of attention to the updated specification ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 8-Dec-2008
Digital Asset Management vendor ClearStory announced last week that they've been acquired by The FeedRoom, a web video management software and services provider ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Dec-2008
Ask Web CMS vendor FatWire. Linda Tucci calls it, "...a booby trap." ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Dec-2008
Talking about SharePoint in Copenhagen today and yesterday reminded me of an interesting point ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 1-Dec-2008
With recession clouds forming, there just has to be a silver lining. And thanks to Autonomy, I now know what it is: ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 26-Nov-2008
As we start to wind down 2008 and move into 2009, I still hear the same question from clients who have implemented or want to implement SharePoint: ... 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 24-Nov-2008
As we start to look back on the past year, one of the key trends we have seen is the resurgence of interest in capture software ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 24-Nov-2008
Since the announcement of CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Specification) I have been inundated with requests ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Nov-2008
It was the quote of the week: timely and definitive, perfectly summing up the value of ECM ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Nov-2008
I recently had a very nice chat about SharePoint with Linda Tucci of SearchCIO ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 20-Nov-2008
Recently, I've heard several people make the statement that "law firms grow most during tough economic times" ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Nov-2008
I recently had a wide-ranging interview with Government Computer News ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 17-Nov-2008
You can now review the schedule for the late March AIIM Expo 2009, to be held in Philadelphia, PA, USA ... 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 Tony Byrne on 14-Nov-2008
I'm excited to announce the latest version of our SharePoint research, the SharePoint Report 2009 ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 11-Nov-2008
Last week Oracle released WebLogic Portal 10.3 ... 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 Janus Boye on 10-Nov-2008
It has been more than 6 months since the most recent press release with any substance from privately-held Web CMS vendor Percussion ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Nov-2008
While I was at jboye08, talking about enterprise search, Google snuck up from behind and surprised me ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 6-Nov-2008
Here at J. Boye 2008 in Denmark, yesterday we held the 3rd-annual Web Idol ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 5-Nov-2008
Recently a buyer of our Digital & Media Asset Management Report contacted me with a few questions about vendors they're considering ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 3-Nov-2008
Well, it was actually kind of an expected surprise ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 2-Nov-2008
French-based commercial open source portal vendor eXo recently used a blog post to announce that they have almost 100 active contributors ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Oct-2008
Microsoft's announcement this week of its intention to expose SaaS versions of its Office products ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 28-Oct-2008
Janus has already provided a first take on Redmond releasing another service pack for the Office products ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 26-Oct-2008
On Friday Microsoft announced a few interesting details on the next service pack for SharePoint. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 26-Oct-2008
I've just started new research on how Google's many enterprise tools are being used ... 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 Tony Byrne on 21-Oct-2008
As part of our ongoing commitment to helping business and technology managers make better decisions, I'm very pleased to announce our first of two online courses focusing on SharePoint ... 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 Tony Byrne on 20-Oct-2008
We've really sensed over the last year that more and more enterprises are taking a closer look at Digital Asset Management (DAM) technology ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 17-Oct-2008
We're looking forward very much to the annual J. Boye conference in Aarhus, Denmark during the first week in November, because ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Oct-2008
In a week in which Symantec paid over half a billion dollars to buy a SaaS email archiving service, Google Postini announced that they would now ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Oct-2008
Last week Symantec agreed to purchase MessageLabs, the UK-based SaaS e-mail archiving service for $695 million ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Oct-2008
I have decided that I love user group meetings, and I want to go to more, so please invite me to yours... ... 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 Tony Byrne on 14-Oct-2008
At a client meeting this morning, I was reminded that the Percussion Rhythmyx Web CMS supports roles, but not groups. ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 13-Oct-2008
Omniture's share price tanked last week after it was downgraded by a Wall St analyst who found that ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 12-Oct-2008
At CMS Watch we love Italy and many things Italian.... ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 9-Oct-2008
The Web CMS Report 2009 is bigger, better, and dare I say, badder than the fourteen previous editions ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Oct-2008
To know what's really going on within a firm or the industry in which it operates you need to watch where the money is flowing ... 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 6-Oct-2008
Some big news happened a couple of weeks ago that seems to have gone by without much notice ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Oct-2008
While traveling from Washington, DC to San Jose, CA for KM World last week to speak about (among other things) e-mail archiving, I encountered this advertisement in both airports ... 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 Janus Boye on 25-Sep-2008
In case you were not among the 43,000 delegates this year at Oracle OpenWorld 2008, Oracle did reveal interesting details on ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Sep-2008
SharePoint has been on my mind a lot recently, not least because we have been undertaking ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Sep-2008
Yesterday Google sponsored lunch at the KM World and Intranets 2008 conference, and while we noshed on chicken ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Sep-2008
I'm giving a free webinar on this topic tomorrow (Wednesday) at 2pm EST (GMT -5). It's in cooperation with the forthcoming ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 23-Sep-2008
It was with some measure of satisfaction that I saw Justin Cutroni's blog on Google Analytics compliance with WAA metrics standards ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 22-Sep-2008
Today finds me in San Francisco for the annual >Oracle OpenWorld mega-conference. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Sep-2008
Yesterday I had the opportunity to participate in "DM Radio" -- an hour-long chat organized by DM Review magazine ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Sep-2008
Today I'm proud to announce the release of the 2009 edition of The ECM Suites Report ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 14-Sep-2008
I hope to see you in Aarhus this coming November at the tutorial I'm teaching at ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Sep-2008
I came across this job opening, which roughly translates as, "Wanted: Tridion developer. Must know everything (and then some)." ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Sep-2008
Over the past two years, Web Content Management vendors have fallen over themselves to provide more interactive services on the front ends of websites ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 8-Sep-2008
An initial commercial release of the new enterprise portal from Sun is not expected until early 2009 ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Sep-2008
If you missed our one-hour SharePoint Webinar last week, never fear -- ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 4-Sep-2008
September this year sees an early start to the conference season, and I find myself first in the Netherlands and then off to India ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 4-Sep-2008
Today I got a call from my friend Paul Steep at Scotia Capital regarding an Open Text announcement this morning ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Sep-2008
KMWorld Magazine recently challenged me to summarize enterprise social software technology in under 1600 words ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Sep-2008
Today we are really excited to launch our latest online course, Fundamentals of ECM Technology ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 2-Sep-2008
It's too soon to know what to make of Google's new Chrome browser (I've only been hammering on it a short time), but I have to admit I was disappointed ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 1-Sep-2008
There's a number of reasons SharePoint doesn't cut it for enterprise Digital Asset Management... ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 29-Aug-2008
Microsoft announced yesterday through a TechNet blog entry that they have released an update to the SharePoint administration toolkit ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 29-Aug-2008
Search is important to most SharePoint projects, but unfortunately it is also something that ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 29-Aug-2008
Is SAP slowly moving into the ECM space? ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Aug-2008
It wasn't news that rocked the world, and in fact most observers didn't even notice it, but I was struck ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 27-Aug-2008
Today we released the Enterprise Portals Report 2009, which evaluates twelve major portal offerings ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 25-Aug-2008
Noted wiki vendor Socialtext has been busy appearing at high-profile conferences to promote ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 25-Aug-2008
Last week, European web analytics vendor Nedstat announced a new feature called "Live Segmentation" ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Aug-2008
At the TDWI Summit this week, I had the opportunity to talk about Web Analytics with enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) execs ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 18-Aug-2008
Google has announced its new Search Appliance, version 5.2. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Aug-2008
A question we are often asked is "Does CMS Watch provide consulting services?" In fact this question is asked so often, I thought a quick blog entry might be in order. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Aug-2008
Laserfiche is an ECM vendor we have been watching and writing about for a while, and our coverage of them in The ECM Suites Report is set to extend this year as we evaluate their new Rio offering ... 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 4-Aug-2008
I'm thrilled to invite you to two seminars and a full-day conference on enterprise search, findability and information architecture, taking place next month in the wonderful cities of Copenhagen and London ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 1-Aug-2008
As the buzz has it, public website search engine Cuil is the new Google challenger ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 1-Aug-2008
The SharePoint IT Pro Documentation Team recently published a blog post on the various Microsoft "enterprise" search technologies. The post did a nice job of clarifying the role of each of Microsoft's various search tools, save FAST ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 31-Jul-2008
Microsoft SharePoint goes open source? Shock, horror! Ok, well not quite, but an open source alternative to SharePoint is now an option with the release of Alfresco's Lab 3 beta product ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 31-Jul-2008
We've mentioned in the past the agonizingly long buildup to the release of Version 5 of Day Communiqué. The product's lackluster user interface remains a glaring sore point in what is otherwise a very capable and elegantly architected (if pricey) WCM platform ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 30-Jul-2008
In an interesting blog posting by Andrew Petro, Senior Software Engineer at Unicon, he mentions that uPortal is commonly successfully adopted as a self-service portal platform. By contrast, our research finds uPortal is an unlikely fit for e-business and self-service portals ... 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 Janus Boye on 24-Jul-2008
While Web CMS vendor Sitecore has been busy promoting the new user interface in its recently released Version 6, the company has attracted quite a bit of criticism from existing customers ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Jul-2008
A new season brings an updated vendor map: ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 22-Jul-2008
Via numerous acquisitions, Oracle has built up a formidable collection of products that they sell for Portals, Content Management, Web 2.0, and other content technologies ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 21-Jul-2008
Flying below the radar for most North American analysts, French-based commercial open source portal vendor eXo has been very busy recently ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Jul-2008
In talking to wiki users, we find a wide range of sophistication. Some are quite content with ... 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 Shawn Shell on 18-Jul-2008
Through the SharePoint product team's MSDN blog, Microsoft announced that it had released a significant infrastructure update for SharePoint ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 17-Jul-2008
I recently wrote an article for DOCUMENT Magazine summarizing the state of the digital asset management industry ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 17-Jul-2008
In "Why Most Online Communities Fail," the Wall Street Journal cites some very useful Deloitte research on businesses who launch their own online communities ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 16-Jul-2008
Last week I wrote about Open Text's acquisition of eMotion, and may have added to the confusion over the alphabet soup of DAM, MAM, and MOM ... 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 16-Jul-2008
We're tough on SharePoint. That's because we frequently see enterprises wandering into the platform (thinking it's "easy" or "free") without always realizing the complexity of what they're about to get into. Still, ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jul-2008
We're pleased that CMS Watch now covers ten different technologies, but I suspect that many of you take an interest in only one or two families of tools ... 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 Theresa Regli on 11-Jul-2008
On the heels of my colleague Alan's report of Open Text's purchase of Spicer, the next sign along the company's acquisition trail was posted yesterday with the acquisition of media asset management vendor eMotion ... 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 Kas Thomas on 8-Jul-2008
Over at the Adobe Developer Connection website, Belgian developer Sébastien Arbogast has posted an interesting article (a tutorial of sorts) on how to write next-generation web apps in Flex ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Jul-2008
What rights and obligations do siteowners and visitor-contributors have with respect to comments on public websites? ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 7-Jul-2008
Almost 6 months after Oracle announced a definitive agreement to acquire BEA, the company definitively stated its direction on the future of its ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 4-Jul-2008
Open Text is back on the acquisition trail. The company announced Thursday that they ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Jul-2008
We've critiqued SharePoint's rather awkward web publishing capabilities in different evaluation reports (on Web CMS tools and SharePoint itself). But we also see customers who seek to deploy SharePoint for their public websites, either because ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 28-Jun-2008
The Enterprise Social Software Report 2008: Networking & Collaboration Within and Beyond the Enterprise has now been officially published and is available for download. ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 27-Jun-2008
Fortiva, the Canadian SaaS vendor has been acquired by Proofpoint. Interesting move for a couple of reasons ... 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 Janus Boye on 24-Jun-2008
The final release of the updated portlet specification, JSR 286, which came out earlier this month, marked the end of a long process ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 24-Jun-2008
Web Analytics Report readers know that one of the biggest issues about Omniture SiteCatalyst is the complexity of the implementation ... 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 Jarrod Gingras on 23-Jun-2008
Here are some wrap-up thoughts from a couple of days at the Web Content 2008 conference in Chicago last week. I thought there was a fascinating dichotomy between days 1 and 2 of the conference ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Jun-2008
Oracle keeps moving down ECM trail with two new acquisitions to add to their growing portfolio. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Jun-2008
Today we read about yet another major financial scandal allegedly exposed through the discovery of an e-mail message from ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Jun-2008
After participating in the first day of the Gilbane San Francisco conference yesterday, here some short observations in no particular order ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Jun-2008
People frequently ask me about where their Web Publishing efforts should end and Social Software begin. Like so many things, the answer is ... 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 Shawn Shell on 16-Jun-2008
In one of my university political science classes, we had to read and review a now famous essay by Francis Fukuyama titled "The End of History?" In the essay ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 12-Jun-2008
For those who've read The Challenge of Mobile Analytics - Part 1 and hoping that the picture is brighter in Part 2, well...it all depends. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 11-Jun-2008
Is it just me, or has anyone else been struck by the lack of attention being paid to blog comment spam? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jun-2008
The full name is actually Enterprise Social Software Report 2008: Networking & Collaboration Within and Beyond the Enterprise ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 9-Jun-2008
This morning at the Enterprise 2.0 conference we were treated to a series of semi-structured Social Software demos pitting IBM (Connections) against Microsoft (SharePoint) ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 9-Jun-2008
As industry analysts, we are constantly traveling to various conferences to teach and learn from others. In addition to meeting potential new readers, one of the real benefits of attendance ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 6-Jun-2008
In our most recent report, E-mail Archiving & Management (EAM), we struggled early on in the research process to differentiate in a meaningful way ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Jun-2008
...which comes to Boston next week, 9-12 June. It's a "big tent" conference that seems to accommodate many different notions of things-2.0 ... 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 Janus Boye on 2-Jun-2008
It might come as little surprise that Oracle is very actively moderating their Oracle wiki, but a recent blog entry reminded me just how important culture is to wiki adoption ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 2-Jun-2008
It's easy to forget just how big the world is -- but when you fly to Brazil as I did this past week, you can get some idea ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 30-May-2008
If there is a buzz around Web 2.0 in the Content Technology community, then there is a roar in the wider IT community around Cloud Computing ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 29-May-2008
Sitecore is a very active Web CMS vendor with a tendency to adopt new technologies and techniques in advance of the rest of the market ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 29-May-2008
Last year everyone was talking about Web 2.0; this year it's all about the mobile web ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 26-May-2008
At a closing panel of a European Commission internal IT conference in Brussels last week, Andrew Sutherland, Oracle EMEA VP Technology repeated the frequently-issued official statement ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 25-May-2008
In a bold move Sun used the JavaOne conference earlier this month to announce that it will begin to work closely together with Liferay on next-generation web technologies ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 23-May-2008
I just returned from IIR's Enterprise-3 Conference in San Diego. It's an interesting conference for consultant and end-user alike, I think, because it brought together people interested in a variety of related topics ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-May-2008
Joseph Bachana recently posted in these pages an excellent article on the Digital Asset Management (DAM) marketplace. I disagreed somewhat, though, ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-May-2008
This may well go down as the busiest period in CMS Watch's history as this month we launch yet another new technology evaluation report ... 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 Kas Thomas on 18-May-2008
In an earlier post, I commented on the (undeclared) "VM war" that seems to be shaping up between Adobe and Sun Microsystems ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-May-2008
As you know at CMS Watch we write critical product evaluations to help you avoid expensive procurement and deployment mistakes ... 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 Kas Thomas on 15-May-2008
Digital Asset Management may not constitute a huge slice of the ECM pie, but it's a fast-growing slice ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 15-May-2008
It's been a busy month at CMS Watch. Today we announce the release of another evaluation report ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-May-2008
The open source package Drupal is one of the few social publishing platforms built on top of a longstanding Web CM (WCM) system ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 13-May-2008
As a content producer, it has been fascinating to watch the evolution of channels where technology suppliers talk to technology customers ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 12-May-2008
Over the last few years, many people (including us) have asked whether or not Facebook can be used as a enterprise intranet. Many have dismissed this notion ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-May-2008
As an "Enterprise-focused" content management analyst, I am asked two basic questions on a regular basis ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 8-May-2008
In an earlier post, prompted by my recent involvement as co-lead analyst on The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008, I commented on a few areas in which DAM and MAM vendors seem ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 8-May-2008
The recently concluded eMetrics Summit was somewhat quiet on the vendor front except for the Coremetrics announcement ... 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 Janus Boye on 3-May-2008
When budget-building time comes up, many technology customers face the interesting question of how much money to put aside for new software licenses ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-May-2008
Everybody wants improved collaboration, but how, and towards what end? Or as we asked quite intently ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 2-May-2008
On a flight back to Boston from London yesterday I took a little time to digest what I had observed during the past week in the UK. It was an odd week really, and somewhat disconcerting as the contrast between the US and the UK was quite stark ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 30-Apr-2008
When JA-SIG announced Version 3.0 of uPortal in mid-April, it marked the ending of a very long development cycle ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 29-Apr-2008
If you couldn't make the "Evaluating SharePoint from a Business Perspective" webinar we conducted last week ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 25-Apr-2008
In our SharePoint Report 2008 we discuss SharePoint's shortcomings and strengths in the search space ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 22-Apr-2008
"Recycling" information (a.k.a., "content reuse") is a critical goal for most content management systems. On this Earth Day 2008, I thought it appropriate to share another green movement that's emerging in the content management industry ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Apr-2008
Last week we received an e-mail from an IT staffer at an outfit that is looking to buy a Web CMS tool, with PaperThin's CommonSpot and RedDot CMS (part of the extended Open Text family) under particular consideration ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 20-Apr-2008
The announcement to make Yahoo! IndexTools a free service, coming so quickly on the heels of the acquisition, would seem to serve notice to ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 17-Apr-2008
We participate regularly in the semi-annual Enterprise3 Conference (former Portals and Collaboration Conference) ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Apr-2008
If there is one word I hate to hear used in this industry it's the word compliance ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 15-Apr-2008
Ted Leonsis, the former AOL executive and current owner of the NHL's Washington Capitals, recently posted a blog entry comparing Facebook's critical development crossroads to that of AOL. He challenges Facebook to ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Apr-2008
Oracle announced today that they were entering the archiving market with the release of "Universal Online Archive." UOA is an interesting entry to a market ... 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 Janus Boye on 8-Apr-2008
In recent news from the SAP Community Network, wiki functionality will soon get included in the SAP NetWeaver Portal offering ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 7-Apr-2008
Today I spent a delightful morning with 75 web managers from "K-12" (i.e., primary and secondary) school districts around the U.S. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Apr-2008
The Gimmal Group's Dan Elam recently pointed me to an important and seemingly under-reported ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 4-Apr-2008
In early March BEA announced the release of WebLogic Portal 10.2. The release was a bit delayed ... 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 Shawn Shell on 1-Apr-2008
During the first SharePoint conference of the MOSS era, Microsoft suggested that they were considering deprecating Exchange public folders in lieu of using SharePoint. As Exchange 2007 neared RTM (release to manufacturing - "production"), it became very clear that Exchange without public folders was not going to happen right away ... 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 Jarrod Gingras on 31-Mar-2008
I received an e-mail this weekend from a very confused researcher of Web Content Management systems. The first result they found in their search results was this paid advertisement from Clickability... ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 27-Mar-2008
I'm very excited to announce the release of our latest evaluation report. This time, instead of covering a particular technology space, we take a hard look at a product that in many ways defies categorization: Microsoft SharePoint ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 25-Mar-2008
Given pervasive confusion around analytics terminology, I lauded the Web Analytics Association's August, 2007 announcement of Report Definition Standards ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 25-Mar-2008
At the AIIM Expo in Boston and Documation Paris earlier this month, I met with several enterprise search vendors, old and new. There's a growing movement afoot to de-throne the old guard ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 21-Mar-2008
My colleagues Tony Byrne and Adriaan Bloem recently wrote up a summary of pros and cons, as well as offered sound advice, regarding the Google Search Appliance ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 21-Mar-2008
In news from last month's JBoss World conference, JBoss Portal will as of Version 2.7, due out in Q3 2008, use a new portlet container that supports the Portlet 2.0 specification (JSR 286) ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 21-Mar-2008
"Who's number 1?" It's question people ask a lot in many domains, but especially software ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Mar-2008
CM Pros organized an event on the topic of enterprise search last week, with two case-study presentations and a fair bit of discussion among attendees. ... 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 Janus Boye on 14-Mar-2008
Marketplaces change, and therefore, we change our product coverage with them. The Web CMS marketplace is particularly dynamic; some products seem to plateau, while others advance quickly. ... 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 11-Mar-2008
The fragmentation of the global Web Content Management technology space continues unabated, although we see significant regional differences. In Europe ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 10-Mar-2008
Microsoft held their second SharePoint Conference in Seattle last week. By all accounts the turnout was well beyond ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 7-Mar-2008
Web CMS vendor SDL Tridion has opened a new office in Germany, almost eight years to the date after their first attempt ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 6-Mar-2008
Everybody loves a party, and Web Analytics vendor Omniture is no exception ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Mar-2008
Herewith some random thoughts on the first half of the 3-day AIIM Conference & Expo in Boston, MA, USA ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Mar-2008
Many different tools -- and scores of vendors -- fall under the rubric of "content technologies." Can they be organized on a single page? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Mar-2008
Today we released the latest update to our Web CMS Report 2008, which evaluates 40 vendors across 2 editions ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 3-Mar-2008
Though we are not psychiatrists, as technology evaluators covering various content technologies, we spend many hours listening to some sad stories of software implementations gone wrong... ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 2-Mar-2008
Actually, "BPM" stands for Business Process Management,, although some implementations can become quite monstrous indeed ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Feb-2008
So Google has launched a product to compete with Microsoft's SharePoint, called Google Sites ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 27-Feb-2008
While Microsoft continues to push SharePoint 2007 as the answer to nearly all information management problems, it seems that not all local Microsoft offices and the partners have the same inflated expectations ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 25-Feb-2008
Today's e-mail brought in a news release from Coremetrics' announcing Coremetrics Connect. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Feb-2008
In our Web CMS Report, we call out MOSS 2007 for having "perhaps the highest fee structure in its class," ... 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 Janus Boye on 19-Feb-2008
jboye08, the annual international web conference in November in Aarhus, Denmark has begun accepting speaker proposals ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 14-Feb-2008
Today we release an update and a new edition of our Enterprise Search Report 2008.... ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Feb-2008
Today we released a research summary arguing that Enterprise Content Management (ECM) products are ill-equipped to meet the security requirements of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 11-Feb-2008
Last week I wrote a commentary on whether the future of Plone lies in web publishing. This was based on a candid blog posting by Plone co-founder Alexander Limi, where he said that the community should "realize that web publishing isn't our main area." ... 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 Janus Boye on 4-Feb-2008
In a candid blog posting, project co-founder Alexander Limi lists 18 things he "wishes were true" about the open source Portal / CMS platform, Plone ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 1-Feb-2008
Wall Street Journal columnist Lee Gomes wrote an interesting piece about industry analyst firm The Aberdeen Group ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 24-Jan-2008
My colleague Jarrod forwarded a link to a news story of how one person deliberately destroyed 7 years worth of corporate content/data with ease ... Continue Reading
Added By Ann Rockley on 24-Jan-2008
Translation and Content Management vendor SDL has taken a minority stake in privately held Trisoft N.V. ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 24-Jan-2008
Omniture completed its acquisition of Visual Sciences last week. So where does that leave HBX customers? ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 23-Jan-2008
In a refreshing blog entry from last week, Microsoft evangelist Jon Udell considered .aspx harmful ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Jan-2008
We're looking for a full-time technology/industry analyst to join our growing team ... 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 Janus Boye on 17-Jan-2008
A couple of months after the initial attempt by Oracle to acquire BEA, the two companies yesterday entered into a definitive agreement under which ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 16-Jan-2008
As a web analytics customer, the key issue is not so much that vendors have been acquiring other vendors. ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-Jan-2008
I have recently become addicted to a TV program called Clean House, where they find people whose homes are a chaotic mess -- with junk and trash accumulating to the rafters ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 10-Jan-2008
In an interesting and detailed blog posting, Singapore-based consultant Paul Gallagher shared his problematic experiences backing up the Oracle WebCenter (OWC) wiki ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 9-Jan-2008
Respected IT site (formerly magazine) InfoWorld recently packaged up many of its more positive product reviews from 2007 into a "2008 Technology of the Year" awards compilation. The reviews of some of the vendors we cover made me pause a bit. ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Jan-2008
So EMC (read: Documentum) acquired Document Sciences. The announcement came over the holiday period, and has already been ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Jan-2008
So the new year begins, and the first thing on my agenda is to run through my calendar for the year; 2008 brings a lot of potentially great events worldwide for ECM ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 30-Dec-2007
In news from "down under" Web CMS vendor FatWire has quietly bought a company called Future Tense Solutions ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 20-Dec-2007
Last month, Apache member Brian McAllister proposed a new incubation project called Shindig, which would create an open source implementation of OpenSocial ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Dec-2007
Today we released the Enterprise Portals Report 2008, evaluating 16 Enterprise Portal products. Our first take: there is some good news ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 19-Dec-2007
In a press release from last week, Vignette announced three new US patents for what the company calls "Web Experience Innovation." ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Dec-2007
CMS Watch principal, Theresa Regli, makes an interesting point about what we didn't predict for 2008 ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Dec-2007
I have just returned from a Copenhagen seminar event (organized by our good friend and colleague Janus Boye), and just prior to that the Oracle UK User Group conference in Birmingham. Both events were organized exclusively for end users ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 12-Dec-2007
We're currently conducting research into the Digital Asset Management marketplace, and we're seeking a couple of good independent experts to help us out ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Dec-2007
Dear Santa: It's early to be sending desiderata, but I imagine after this very eventful year your develop -- I mean elves -- must be very busy. Anyway, I'd be grateful if you could leave any of the following ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 10-Dec-2007
Last week, after giving a keynote on the current and future of Enterprise Search at the Online Information conference in London, the first question asked of me was, "Why shouldn't I just get Google? It's what my boss thinks is best." ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Dec-2007
Who would have thought that an after-hours Chamber of Commerce speech in Ann Arbor, Michigan by a former JotSpot exec could set the blogosphere abuzz with rumors of the impending death of Web Content Management as we know it? ... 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 Janus Boye on 5-Dec-2007
Almost exactly a year after MOSS 2007 was released, Joel Olesen, Sr. Technical Product Manager at Microsoft, finally shed some light on future product plans ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 5-Dec-2007
At the Gilbane conference in Boston last week, I chatted for a few minutes with new FatWire CEO Yogesh Gupta, who made what I thought was an interesting observation ... 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 Tony Byrne on 30-Nov-2007
I've heard from several different sources about a "hot deal" for venture capital funding of a Drupal-oriented start-up called Acquia ... 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 28-Nov-2007
At the Gilbane Conference keynote today, execs from ECM vendors Alfresco, Oracle, IBM, and Adobe focussed on -- perhaps inevitably -- Enterprise 2.0 ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 28-Nov-2007
In an interesting quote from Google Analyst Day last month Jessica Ewing, who works on the iGoogle team answered her own question on whether iGoogle is a portal ... 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 20-Nov-2007
It's easy to get lost in the maelstrom that is Oracle OpenWorld. With over 45,000 visitors, it takes over San Francisco each year. Its "appreciation" parties are legendary ... 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
Added By Phil Kemelor on 13-Nov-2007
Microsoft has been making noises about its free web analytics solution since January, 2007. The company finally announced the beta of Gatineau at the end of October ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 12-Nov-2007
I lost my voice last week at cmf2007, and while I've almost fully recovered, seeing 43,000 delegates at Oracle's annual lovefest, Oracle OpenWorld 2007, gave me new appreciation ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Nov-2007
Has enterprise search finally reached the tipping point? Yes, seemed to be the conclusion of many of the experts here at the Enterprise Search Summit West ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 6-Nov-2007
Today we released the Enterprise Search Report 2008, evaluating 18 major search vendors. We'll be discussing more about different marketplace trends and vendors in the coming weeks. For now, our initial release focuses on the stunted promise of hosted search, ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 1-Nov-2007
Earlier this week Long Island, NY-based Web CMS vendor FatWire announced that it has acquired Infostoria, a Long Island-based wiki vendor ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 1-Nov-2007
Well that was the news out of Portland late yesterday from a piece in the Portland Business Journal ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 30-Oct-2007
The offer from Oracle to acquire BEA expired this weekend, as BEA refused to meet the proffered terms and ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Oct-2007
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 Tony Byrne on 29-Oct-2007
CMS vendor SiteCore cites an outdated version of our Web CMS Report to list some of the strengths we identified in their tool. Guess what they didn't publish from the same page of that report? ... 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 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 23-Oct-2007
That was the title of a recent piece I wrote for EContent Magazine. To quote: ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Oct-2007
Autumn is conference season here in the US, and one of the events I am most looking forward to is KMWorld in San Jose, California, from 6-8th November. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 21-Oct-2007
In a well-timed PR move, Microsoft is now trying to push the hype around MOSS 2007 to new heights with a connector from wiki vendor Atlassian to SharePoint. ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 19-Oct-2007
Google Analytics releases can be depended upon to change expectations on what web analytics packages should all be able to do. If you're one of the other analytics vendors, you have to make sure your product does at least everything that Google Analytics can do...plus some ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Oct-2007
Implementing a Web CMS can help or hinder your search engine rankings, although done right, greater automation should ultimately improve your SEO performance. You should be suspicious of any vendor who says that their tool ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Oct-2007
At every talk or seminar I give on buying ECM technology, I stress to attendees that they have many different options -- including software as a service (SaaS). It's still early days for SaaS ECM, but the approach is now joining open source as a viable alternative to traditional software licensing models ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 14-Oct-2007
It's been a busy week for Oracle and BEA, since news got out that Oracle had made an offer to buy BEA ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Oct-2007
This week I led a seminar in Rome on Web Content Management organized by our friends Giovanni and Francesca at Technology Transfer. Both during the seminar sessions and in the ever-important espresso breaks, a key theme that I had noted on other recent visits re-emerged: European web teams are struggling to meet contemporary needs with outdated "enterprise-level" technologies ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Oct-2007
One of things about being an industry analyst is you are exposed (whether you like it or not) to all the new trends, hypes, and ideas that the software industry promotes. You need to remain focused on your core areas (in my case all points ECM), and at the same time ensure that you remember to view your niche in a broader context ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 4-Oct-2007
Web analytics remains a nascent industry, so you don't have a huge choice of conferences that focus solely on the practice. However, here are the events you don't want to miss. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Oct-2007
One of the great divides in the ECM world is the gulf between (and different understanding of) the needs of records management on the one hand, versus IT storage on the other ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 3-Oct-2007
People often ask me about new trends beyond simply product roadmaps and flashy functionality. Like everything else in enterprise software, portals are indeed evolving. ... 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 Tony Byrne on 2-Oct-2007
Today we released the latest version of our Web CMS Report, which evaluates 30 Web Content Management (WCM) active globally and in Europe ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 1-Oct-2007
These past few weeks as I have been working on the ECM Suites Report I pondered what it actually is that makes an ECM tool truly "Enterprise" ready ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Oct-2007
That would be Rome and Rotterdam, where I'll be teaching next week ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Sep-2007
Late last year we blogged on the 2006 Gartner Magic Quadrant (MQ) for ECM - and made the point that inclusion in the chart is believed by vendors to have a very positive impact on their sales. In the 2007 MQ - published this past week - it's clear that little (in Gartner's view) has changed in the ECM world. Well, we beg to differ ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 24-Sep-2007
After a long series of delays, Swedish Web CMS vendor EPiServer finally released version 5.0 of EPiServer CMS last week. ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 23-Sep-2007
It's been a busy last week in the land of web analytics software vendors.Coremetrics' officially launched Coremetrics 2008 and Omniture announced Genesis 2. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Sep-2007
Vendor salespeople can get very excited -- usually with good justification -- about new features or fixes coming in the next release (major or minor) of their product. But just when is that release coming out? In our latest round of Web CMS research, I find myself writing, across almost every commercial and open source package, something to the effect of, "Version 6.3, slated for release in April, 2007, is now due out in Q1, 2008." What's up with that? ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 14-Sep-2007
Coremetrics' announcement of its SMB Solutions might have caught some by surprise, considering that this (hosted) Web Analytics solution is often thought of as one of the more complex and expensive web analytics options out there. However, the company says that roughly 35 percent of its clients are in the SMB market and they foresee plenty of growth in that area. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 12-Sep-2007
This week, Autonomy announced that German call center provider Quelle.Contact has chosen its IDOL product "...to power its new Content Management System (CMS)." Hold on -- wasn't Autonomy in the enterprise search business? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Sep-2007
I never tire of reminding people that the Web CMS marketplace is extraordinarily fragmented, with multiple tiers of established vendors and hundreds (if not thousands) of smaller, very regionalized suppliers around the world ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 6-Sep-2007
Our customers tell us they are increasingly managing multiple websites. They typically want a platform that recognizes their (inevitably) unique approaches to centralization and distributed management. Many Web CMS tools can now "clone" websites, but this usually entails just copying a set of content, structural elements, vocabularies, and templates -- it does not address the problem of ongoing management of those assets ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 5-Sep-2007
While nattering to a U.S. attorney while traveling back from Kuala Lumpur last week I was directed to this ongoing story. You can read all about it here, but in short the U.S. Department of Justice is suing Accenture for allegedly receiving kickback-like payments from technology suppliers it recommended and/or implemented at DOJ. The alleged fraud was a collusion with big-name IT suppliers (e.g., HP, Sun) and smaller vendors (e.g., Vignette) to ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 4-Sep-2007
I am just back from speaking at the very first ECM Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- an excellent event that left me with many things to ponder. Top of the list is the term ECM itself ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Aug-2007
I'm very pleased to be returning to CMF2007, the "Third International Web Conference," this November. I'll be teaching on WCM, and CMS Watch is leading a track on selecting and implementing the various technologies we cover. You might be interested to know that ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 28-Aug-2007
My colleague Alan Pelz-Sharpe proves that it's possible -- just barely -- to describe a major ECM vendor that markets hundreds of products, in just three screens of text ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 28-Aug-2007
Back in April I commented on incompatibilities with various Web CMS tool interfaces and IE7 in Microsoft Vista. Now, 4 months later I am busy researching the upcoming 12th edition of the Web CMS Report, and still many vendors (e.g., ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 27-Aug-2007
New owners and a new CEO. Such was the major announcement earlier this week from Swedish CMS vendor EPiServer ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Aug-2007
This past week ECM vendor Open Text announced that they will deliver a major upgrade to the acquired (ex-Hummingbird) eDocs technology for the Legal sector. Not earth-shattering news, but important news nonetheless ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Aug-2007
South African open source ECM developer Knowledge Tree recently announced that their package has seen more than 380,000 downloads. Of course, veterans of open source projects will concede that downloads doth not a production implementation make ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 10-Aug-2007
Web analytics vendor WebTrends released Marketing Lab 2 last week, an ambitious effort that seeks to raise both the analytics value of the product while improving usability. ... Continue Reading
Added By Ann Rockley on 7-Aug-2007
While much of the world was enjoying their vacation, EMC made a quiet announcement of some significance: buying X-Hive, a Dutch company that provides a native XML database and content component management system (called "Docato"). It was so quiet that it almost seemed apocryphal; after all there was no matching press release on either companies' site. Yes, it happened and the acquisition is complete. At first glance, it seemed unusual. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 5-Aug-2007
EMC|Documentum's long awaited "D6" was officially announced last week -- though of course it has actually been announced by the firm many times this year at different conferences. Although this official release fills in some of the blanks, there are few surprises. That's not to say this is not a significant event for the sometime market leader - it's a very big event for them - only in the past what Documentum did was a signal for all to follow. The tide has turned somewhat, and Documentum under the ownership of EMC finds itself as much a follower as a leader these days. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 3-Aug-2007
Most implementations of the popular MOSS 2007 are performed by system integrators and local consulting companies, typically without Microsoft intercession. Even if you obtained SharePoint for free, I would strongly encourage a direct and regular contact with Microsoft itself ... 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 Janus Boye on 1-Aug-2007
According to a recent study by research firm IDC, IBM is leading the Enterprise Portal market in license and maintenance revenue for the 5th consecutive year. Even CNN picked up the news, which illustrates how the media is enthralled with marketshare numbers. We take a somewhat more prosaic view. ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Jul-2007
Just a year or two ago, a major upgrade to the Documentum ECM platform would have been dominant news in the industry, but things change, and quickly. D6, the latest version of EMC|Documentum's flagship platform, is undertaking a gradual roll-out through Q3 2007 to muted fanfare. EMC and its investors have high expectations for this new version, as the Documentum division of the company has shown only modest growth of 5% in the past year, lower than most competitors. ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 23-Jul-2007
You could be excused for thinking that packet sniffing-based data collection for Web Analytics was long gone. Packet sniffing -- or network-based data collection -- was the basis of web analytics pioneer Accrue Software's technology in the mid '90s, but like log file analysis, it fell out of favor at least in the US market with the advent of page tag-based data collection. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 21-Jul-2007
It can be challenging to work with any big software vendor, but Oracle in particular does not seem to be making portal projects easy for its faithful customers. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-Jul-2007
Today EMC announced it is to acquire XHive the Netherlands-based, XML-focused content management vendor. XHive has carved out a niche for itself ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 18-Jul-2007
Google has announced the Custom Search Business Edition, an ad-free version of their Custom Search, which allows small to medium businesses to use the search engine to index and query their website or specific other websites. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Jul-2007
Hyland Software, developer of OnBase ECM, has been acquired (58% controlling stake) by a private equity firm for $265 million -- quite a substantial sum for a firm that posted revenues around $70 million. What does it mean for buyers of Hyland's software? ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 16-Jul-2007
Recently I chatted with SchemaLogic CEO Jeff Dirks about the companys new spin in the marketplace. The software formerly known as "taxonomy management software" is now "BSM" software or "Business Semantics Management." Call it what you will, it's still about managing categories and vocabularies for your content, which we all could do a bit better ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 14-Jul-2007
We've now started coverage of Magnolia as a part of the Web CMS Report. Like many open source Web content management tools, Magnolia has seen growing exposure in recent years. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 13-Jul-2007
Earlier this week I visited a national membership association in wonderful Copenhagen, Denmark. The association had accepted a seemingly very nice offer from Microsoft: free licenses to MOSS 2007 to support a revamped public website. Now with the implementation well underway, problems are beginning to surface ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Jul-2007
Today Oracle announced the latest upgrade to its flagship database: 11g. The announcement brooks great interest within the ECM community because ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Jul-2007
Enterprise Content Management guru Jesse Wilkins wrote a nice review of our ECM Suites Report. To quote ... 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 Janus Boye on 4-Jul-2007
Earlier this week open source vendor Red Hat finally released the new version 2.6 of JBoss Portal. I've previously commented on the usability improvements and the developer release. What's new since the last dot-release is ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Jul-2007
At last week's Henry Stewart DAM Symposium in London, a lively crowd joined my talk on vendor-neutral approaches to selecting content technologies. The themes and challenges in the DAM ("digital asset management") space aren't much different from those in the larger ECM arena: ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Jul-2007
This year's big DIA (Drug Information Association) conference in Atlanta concluded with something of a shock for traditional ECM vendors. ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 3-Jul-2007
Instadia was one of Europe's leading web analytics vendors prior to its acquisition by Omniture in January 2007. The acquisition took Instadia's customers by surprise. Omniture announced that it would migrate Instadia ClientStep installations to Omniture Site Catalyst, as well as retain functionality that led customers to select ClientStep. The success of this effort remains unclear. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 2-Jul-2007
"Integration" is a hot topic with Enterprise Content Management vendors these days. But just like terms such as BPM or SOA, integration can many things to many people. The current focus on integration stems in large part to vendor repositioning work. They are starting to recognize that for long term survival they have to play nicely with other business applications and -- whether they like it or not -- other ECM systems. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 30-Jun-2007
In the Enterprise Portals Report I outline three different ways to segment the market: ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 27-Jun-2007
Alan Pelz-Sharpe recently cited a brewing backlash against SOA in the enterprise content management world. In the portal market I'm certainly hearing growing concerns about SOA from the user community. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 27-Jun-2007
CMS Watch analytics lead Phil Kemelor recently shared some insights into the latest version of WebTrends with the readers of Intelligent Enterprise magazine ... 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 25-Jun-2007
Nick Sharp, the VP and general manager for EMEA at WebTrends, recently wrote a piece for mycustomer.com titled "Web Analytics is dead!". The gist of the article is that web marketers should not look at web analytics data in a vacuum, but rather, use it to drive marketing campaigns and solutions. No disagreement with the premise, and as I wrote ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-Jun-2007
The story begins with Computer Associates (CA), who spun off its Ingres line into a separate, open source project. Ingres is now teaming up with open source ECM provider Alfresco. The Ingres "Icebreaker" product (linux + database stack) will offer an ECM option provided via Alfresco. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Jun-2007
A nicely-researched article on Linux.com investigates a growing dust-up in the Joomla! community regarding licensing and business models. Joomla! is an open source CMS package that forked from Mambo a couple of years ago. After encouraging 3rd-party development of commercial add-on modules, Joomla's leadership is reconsidering its approach in light of the core package's somewhat purer GPL license, ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Jun-2007
Our guest analyst Apoorv Durga pointed me to InfoGrid a Singapore-based vendor that is now selling an ECM "appliance." I have not looked inside the box yet, but plan to do so and will report back with what I find. But at first glance ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Jun-2007
Lately I've been thinking a lot about how and why the Web content management (WCM) industry has grown so consistently this decade, as well as the relationship of WCM technologies to two other important trends: Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and "Web 2.0." I summarized some thoughts ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 6-Jun-2007
Most hosted Web Analytics vendors charge you according to page views -- not unreasonable since each view is a call to their server and a new record in their database. But what happens when Ajax and other rich applications eliminate the notion of a "page"? ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 4-Jun-2007
Almost 6 months after its initial launch, Microsoft has still not issued clear plans nor direction for future releases of MOSS 2007. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 3-Jun-2007
When Nordic CMS vendor Synkron was bought in late March by local competitor Dynamicweb, the official party line was essentially, "The Synkron CEO leads the new organization and both brands and product lines maintained." ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 2-Jun-2007
Such is the field of technology that software vendors always try to innovate. With a new "Emergency Portal" offering, a small US vendor called Viyaa Technologies tries to promote their capabilities after the Virginia Tech massacre. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Jun-2007
Web CMS vendor Sitecore sells its software exclusively through 3rd-party consulting partners. That has helped the formerly small Danish company expand rapidly in North America, among other locales, at a time when many other vendors pay only lip service to their consulting channels. These partners become especially important, because, as Web CMS Report readers know, Sitecore is also unusual among its peers as more of a development platform than out-of-the-box product. However, this approach sometimes leads to confusion, first in the sales process, but then later, after the contract is signed. ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 30-May-2007
Last week Google Analytics customers reported service outages that affected some for more than 24 hours. Worse, Google issued no official comment until yesterday. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 30-May-2007
Almost exactly a year after open- sourcing its previously commercial portal product, Sun has decided to make a renewed push with its launch of "OpenPortal." OpenPortal is a new portal community where you can find all the source code to Sun Portal. OpenPortal remains a young project, but the portal package is indeed evolving. ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 29-May-2007
Manoj Jasra, a pre-eminent web analytics and SEO bloggers, recently interviewed me about the Web Analytics Report. Among the questions I tried to answer: ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 28-May-2007
After a few delays, the new version of Plone is due out quite soon. With significant user interface modifications, Plone is trying to address existing weaknesses while also adding new features. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 25-May-2007
Over the years we've helped many enterprises select appropriate content technologies -- be it a Web CMS, Portal, Search tool, or a larger ECM Suite. We're now also pleased to offer Web Analytics advisory services (for buyers only, of course) ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 22-May-2007
In researching the Web Analytics Report, I found vendors frequently using terms that -- while not completely untrue -- didn't exactly tell the whole story about a product's functionality. One of my favorite vendor phrases is "data export." ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-May-2007
Transactional document management (high-volume throughput of relatively static documents) has long been dominated by IBM and FileNet. EMC today announced that it too wants to compete in this lucrative market. Hence as part of its forthcoming Documentum D6 release, they have announced "TCM" (Transactional Content Management). ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-May-2007
Today we announced the 3rd edition of our Enterprise Portals Report. Lots of interesting new tid-bits to report about MOSS 2007, Liferay, and other portal products. But the big story this season revolves around BEA and Oracle ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-May-2007
How many good people can you lose before things start to suffer? The answer is usually not too many -- but in EMC's Documentum division we have now seen the departure of ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-May-2007
Is "departmental enterprise content management" an oxymoron? We think not. In fact, much of the growth in the ECM industry is serving small- to mid-sized businesses and individual enterprise departments seeking to undertake basic document and records management. So for those customers, we've created a new (lower-cost) edition of our ECM Suites Report. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-May-2007
Percussion Software originally started out as a purveyor of Lotus tools. As its subsequent Web CMS business grew to substantially outstrip the Lotus side, those tools became a sometimes confusing appendage for prospective customers. Earlier this week, Percussion announced that it was splitting off its Lotus products into an entirely separate company called "Axceler." Of course, ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-May-2007
As Phil pointed out last week, Google has nicely upgraded it free Google Analytics package. But we find ourselves asking the same question that we pose of Google's Search Appliance product: ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-May-2007
As Web CMS Report readers know, Joomla!'s roadmap for future versions is quite ambitious. The project has indeed incorporated many new features in the recently released Joomla! 1.5 Beta-2, called "The Red Barchetta." ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-May-2007
It's not surprising that enterprises around the world typically first consider major North American vendors like EMC, IBM, and Open Text for their ECM needs, considering the millions those companies pour into marketing efforts. But buyers should look beyond the marketing, as many regional vendors may well have good technology solutions ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 9-May-2007
With much fanfare at yesterday's Emetrics Summit, Google unveiled a new version of Google Analytics. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-May-2007
Slowly but surely more details are emerging from a variety of different types of implementations using Microsoft's new SharePoint, "MOSS 2007." I hope you can join us in Washington, DC this June for a couple of very useful MOSS sessions based on practical field experience. ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 8-May-2007
I spoke to customers and vendors at today's Emetrics Summit to find some answers. Customers generally underestimated the level of effort required of them -- for example the tagging required to collect "basic" data, such as downloads of PDFs, Excel and Word files. Not understanding the need to develop a process for data collection, page tagging, and analysis, customers often assume that once the web analytics solution is in place, it will run itself. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 5-May-2007
If you want to buy an enterprise portal from Oracle these days, you have two choices, neither of which seems ideal: ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 4-May-2007
If you're a North America-based enterprise, would you consider a European web analytics vendor? If you're based in Europe, would you prefer to select a vendor from your country or region? I addressed these and other issues ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 4-May-2007
At last month's Sapphire, SAP's annual conference, SAP outlined an updated roadmap for their enterprise portal. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 3-May-2007
On Wednesday, infrastructure and portal vendor BEA reported below-expected results for its first quarter. License revenues fell more than 30% from $169 million last quarter to about $115 million this quarter. BEA cited in its press release a "difficult selling environment, especially in the Americas" ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 1-May-2007
The 275-page report evaluates thirteen Web Analytics vendors head to head, and like all our reports, explains how the technology actually works behind the scenes. You can read more about the report here, and download a free sample here. As usual, ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 27-Apr-2007
The web analytics marketplace is in the middle of a significant transformation, with new features coming out nearly every week, plus the occasional acquisition. In my role as Principal Analyst for the Web Analytics Report (to be released next Tuesday), I’ve tried to interpret these trends from the perspective of a buyer and user of these solutions ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 26-Apr-2007
Open Text's Web CMS subsidiary RedDot has just chosen Chicago-based interactive agency Purple Monkey Studios, Inc. as their "Partner of the Year." Purple Monkey can certainly boast a decent client list and the obligatory cool home page. To me, this news more than perhaps anything else exemplifies the gulf between enterprise content management (ECM) and web content management (WCM) ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 25-Apr-2007
Today we announced research that finds Microsoft Office SharePoint Server ("MOSS") 2007 coming up a bit short when it comes to traditional web content management ... Continue Reading
Added By Ann Rockley on 25-Apr-2007
I have a more sanguine view of the recent acquisition of Tridion by SDL than my CMS Watch colleagues. From the perspective of content component management (CCM), return on investment often comes in the area of translation ... 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
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Well, my post yesterday elicited some strong reactions. Here's a summary of some of the push-back I received from vendors: ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Feb-2007
We're in the thick of research for several evaluation reports. This means talking to vendors and (mostly) customers. I can say with certainty that the gap between how vendors and customers see the same product has never been wider. ... Continue Reading
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Janus offers a short review of WebSphere Portal in Intelligent Enterprise magazine. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 5-Feb-2007
This morning finds me in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at a 3-day seminar with the above title. While flying here I was reading some German management literature arguing that successful organizations all transform into "Single Purpose Tools" focusing on fewer and fewer things. The author made the parallel to famous people, who typically focus on just one thing. It suddenly struck me that in our marketplace we formerly had one such a tool -- an important one. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 4-Feb-2007
In a rather strange commentary, BEA Senior Product Manager Josh Lannin recently claimed on his blog that Oracle is leaving existing portal customers in the dust with its new WebCenter suite product. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Jan-2007
EMC has begun to share publicly some information about the long-awaited Documentum 6, due out in Q3 of this year. Promises of a "....new, streamlined user experience" ought to give you some hint for what it's like to work in Documentum today. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 11-Jan-2007
Open Source vendor eXo recently announced a new version of their portal package. According to eXo Platform CEO Benjamin Mestrallet the new 2.0 release has a 100% AJAX based user interface, which by design should resemble a desktop-like UI. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jan-2007
CMS Watch contributing analyst Steve Arnold talks about search and related text mining technologies at Government Computer News. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jan-2007
The UK government CIO has just announced an audacious plan to collapse more than 551 (out of 951) government websites down to 26. The other 400 will come under review too. Doubtless this will save on hardware and software, and perhaps fulfill the long-desired (but rarely realized) dream of Web CMS as a shared service. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 5-Jan-2007
A recent blog post argued that vendors often drive discussions with buyers rather that the other way round. In that vein, I would like to state for the benefit of anyone considering buying ECM technology that there is really no such thing as an "ECM Suite" -- not beyond product labeling and marketing that is. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Jan-2007
We've recently received inquiries from emerging technology teams at different enterprises asking for long-term access to all CMS Watch reports. So we've rolled out a year-long subscription package that provides a site license to all our products and each update, at a discount. Find details here. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Jan-2007
In a recent KMWorld article, Alan Pelz-Sharpe lays out the broader implications for the ECM marketplace, but also looks at how it impacts customers. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Jan-2007
When I talk to software vendors about customer projects that got seriously delayed or have failed outright, the response is almost invariably: "implementation problem." That's code-speak for the customer or integrator (or both) screwing up. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 31-Dec-2006
When EMC acquired Documentum there was much speculation that main rival NetApp would gobble up FileNet. Instead, NetApp acquired by accident a new channel - as other ECM vendors suddenly wanted to keep a distance between EMC|Documentum, and though NetApp didn't acquire FileNet they began a fairly intense relationship. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Dec-2006
Check out this short but fascinating interview with Open Text CEO John Shackleton in Red Herrring [Thanks to Michiel]. The main story line: Open Text is not seeking to be acquired. Two years from now we'll see... ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-Dec-2006
If you think overcoming the marketing hype that surrounds an "ECM Suite" is hard (it is for me, and I do this for a living!) then you might presume that talking to enterprise content management vendors directly could resolve your confusion. That would seem logical, but recall that all the major ECM vendors have either been acquiring or been acquired in the past few years.... ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-Dec-2006
IBM and Yahoo have announced a free enterprise search software. Called IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition, it neither uses IBM's nor Yahoo's technology for underlying search but instead runs on ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 13-Dec-2006
A few very early adopters (LloydsTSB, Corgi and Ministry of Sound) have gone live with public websites using the new MS SharePoint 2007. Unlike the old SharePoint 2003 ... Continue Reading
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