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Tony Byrne

Impact of IBM's acquisitions for Unica customers

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

Tony Byrne

Getting beyond the Magic Quadrant for WCM

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

Shawn Shell

When a SharePoint Cloud is all puffery

Added By Shawn Shell on 25-Aug-2010

As you may have noticed by the slew of announcements from Redmond, Microsoft has placed increasing emphasis on "cloud" computing ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Skeptical about DotNetNuke getting enterprisey

Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Aug-2010

Many observers expected big things when DotNetNuke Corporation raised serious venture capital in November, 2008. (DotNetNuke Corporation is the commercial entity behind the sprawling, open source CMS community by the same name) ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

What Exactly is IDOL, Anyway?

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

Apoorv Durga

Beware the WEM trap

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

Adriaan Bloem

SharePoint's FAST 2010 is not as cheap as you might think

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Making sense of IT gibberish

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

IBM Acquires Datacap - First Take

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

Theresa Regli

Adobe To Acquire Day - Second Take - DAM Perspective

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

Tony Byrne

Latest updates to WCM vendor evaluations

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

Apoorv Durga

Adobe To Acquire Day - First Take-ECM Perspective

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

Tony Byrne

Evaluating SharePoint 2010 as a Content Management Platform

Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Jul-2010

With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has strongly promoted the platform's upgraded content management capabilities. Now that the hype is died down, and there are production implementations in the field, it's possible to take a harder look ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Updated ECM evaluations released

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-Jul-2010

Today we are releasing a fairly substantial update to our ECM evaluation research. Over the past few months we have been looking in detail into product changes across some of the larger and better known ECM suite vendors ... Continue Reading

Phil Kemelor

Some thoughts on updated web analytics vendor evaluations

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

Adriaan Bloem

CoreMedia integrates with SAP NetWeaver Portal

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

ECM Price Lists: Why the Secrecy?

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

Tony Byrne

How to get the right vendors to respond to your RFP

Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Jul-2010

Many of our enterprise research customers are reporting an interesting trend: fewer responses to their RFPs (a.k.a., "tenders"). Even vendors they had at the top of their lists may decline to bid. This puzzles them ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Don't ogle search if you really want content management

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

Adriaan Bloem

Do you need a simple or a complex CMS?

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

Adriaan Bloem

WordPress 3.0 released: Bzzzzz.

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

Adriaan Bloem

Decoding Content Management jargon

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

Tony Byrne

Web Analytics Evaluations - Version 5

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

Apoorv Durga

Red Hat Releases JBoss EPP 5

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

 

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