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Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-May-2013
In an earlier post on this topic, I mentioned that for Cloud File-Sharing (CFS) Platforms to become a part of the enterprise layer -- as opposed to just serving as stand-alone tools like most of them do now -- they would need to improve in a number of areas. One of the key areas where almost all the tools need improvement is in the area of reporting and compliance ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 15-Apr-2013
The poster child of cloud-based file sharing services, Dropbox has announced this new service targeting enterprises. The service costs $795 per year for 5 users and includes 1 TB of storage space. Enterprise features include ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 12-Apr-2013
In 2012 Oracle acquired four companies relevant to our Digital Marketing Technology evaluations – Eloqua, Vitrue, Involver, and Collective Intellect. Of these ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 27-Feb-2013
Salesforce.com has a gap in their marketing cloud in the key area of Marketing Automation (MA). In general this is not a bad thing, since they integrate with several other MA vendors instead ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 12-Dec-2012
Today, I believe that as enterprises transition more to SaaS-based tools for many processes, this role will be increasingly played by cloud-based file-sharing (CFS) tools. In a cloud-connected enterprise, file-sharing platforms will become comparatively easier to integrate and potentially serve as a repository for a variety of other, SaaS-based tools ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 12-Jul-2012
In my last post about Oracle's Collective Intellect acquisition, I wrote:
... I suspect Oracle will make more acquisitions in this space and then package these multiple acquisitions as a platform...
Oracle did not disappoint ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 12-Jun-2012
In terms of buzzwords, digital marketing technology lies at the intersection of Cloud and Big Data and because of that, bigger infrastructure vendors are slowly building capabilities in this area ... 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 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 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 Apoorv Durga on 3-Oct-2011
In most enterprises, content resides in disparate, heterogeneous systems, including (but not limited to) content management systems. Those who have invested in portal-type technologies have a reasonable expectation that this technology can integrate the content consumption experience, exposing content and related data from multiple repositories ... 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 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Dec-2010
Just as Microsoft has its own very distinctive approach and definition for ECM, so too does Oracle. In fact as time goes on, Oracle's approach to ECM is becoming more individual and distinctive ... 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 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 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 Theresa Regli on 5-Apr-2010
A question often asked by people learning about search technology is the difference between enterprise and federated search. It is not the simplest question to answer ... 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 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 5-Jun-2009
An announcement caught attention the other week, though I don't have much insight into the details yet. In short a new RM (Records Management) standard has emerged ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 4-Jun-2009
Earlier this week EMC announced that it was providing more extensive development support for Documentum. This is something we had to comment on, as in our various product evaluations we have long called out EMC Documentum for providing relatively poor support ... Continue Reading
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