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Added By Apoorv Durga on 17-May-2012
Have you tried accessing a web site from your mobile device and felt disappointed? I get that feeling often and wonder what it takes for site owners to think of "mobile first"?
One of the fastest ways to mobilize your existing websites is to license ... 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 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 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 Jarrod Gingras on 20-Apr-2012
Cloud, Mobile, and Social are three of the most common buzzwords in today's IT lexicon. The words are here to stay, but will the underlying concepts really bring about fundamental changes to the way we manage information? Or, are they more hype than substance? ... 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 Tony Byrne on 19-Mar-2012
A confluence of trends is elevating the concept of the "Digital Workplace." Much of the current discussion has centered around what a digital workplace mean for traditional intranets, emerging social collaboration spaces, and aging transactional systems.
Those are important topics, but I think an even bigger to-do for enterprises is to bring the right skill sets to bear. One key skill set to engage here is enterprise architecture ... 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 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 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 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 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 10-Nov-2011
Intranets are dead. Long live the Digital Workplace!
OK, this is partly an argument about labels, but labels matter. What most employees understand as their "intranet" -- updates from corporate communications, some HR forms, and a mountain of outdated docs -- is increasingly irrelevant ... 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 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 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 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 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 Theresa Regli on 26-May-2011
As I prepare my plenary session presentation for the upcoming Henry Stewart conferences in New York and London, I'm doing a lot of research on how well digital & media asset management (DAM) tools adapt to mobile environments ... 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 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 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 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 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 Tony Byrne on 13-Jan-2011
I recently had the chance to sit down with the famous John Gilroy of Federal Tech Talk on Federal News Radio in Washington, DC. The 30-minute show aired earlier this week, but you can listen to or download the archive ... 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 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 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 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 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Nov-2010
No content management supplier today can start or end a sales pitch without a mention of mobile. Whether they be large ECM vendors talking about access to your secure documents on your Blackberry, or a B2C oriented web content management vendors discussing rich media delivery to the iPad ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Oct-2010
Last week, I presented at Mobile Mojo -- an event about Mobile & Social. It was an interesting gathering, with a lot of buzz. One of the highlights was certainly Peter Hinssen's excellent keynote about ... 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 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 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 Adriaan Bloem on 9-Jun-2010
Dassault Systèmes, a major product lifecycle management (PLM) vendor, has announced the acquisition of enterprise search vendor Exalead. Which of course leads to the two usual questions with any acquisition ... Continue Reading
Added By 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 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
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