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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 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 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 Sanjeev Gupta on 18-Aug-2011
I was recently updating the Nuxeo evaluation in our Document & Records Management Research, and the biggest news here is that the open source ECM vendor has replaced its repository layer ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Aug-2011
The research and consulting giant Gartner recently released a maturity model for ECM (Enterprise Content Management). Since its release (it's an overhaul of an earlier model), I have had a number of people point out to me the similarities between it and the open source maturity model for ECM that we contribute to, called ECM3, which is now a part of MIKE2.0 ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Jul-2011
I was really happy last week to see that the long-awaited British Standards Institution Code of Practice (PAS 89) for ECM has been made available for public comment and review ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-May-2011
Vendors claim DOD5015 compliance, but few organizations actually use the systems in a DOD5015 compliant manner. In short it is an over-arching standard that demands a particularly complex and cumbersome working methodology ... 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 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 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 14-Jan-2011
The tech blogosphere has been debating the apparent demise of the Java Content Repository (JCR) spec, especially after news that the open source Document Management firm Nuxeo dropped support for the standard. JCR's popularity and future are always debatable. However, it should focus you the customer on an important topic: what happens when a standard dies? ... 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 Tony Byrne on 29-Dec-2010
There's a great new book that begins with two questions:
And then proceeds to answer them both. ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Nov-2010
ECM3 is without a doubt the most successful maturity model for ECM, with downloads of the model passing the 5,000 mark recently ... 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 27-Oct-2010
There are some things in life that just shouldn't be considered optional, like deploying a web content management system in a three-stage Development-Test-Production environment, or even four, with Staging thrown in. Most enterprises run their actual websites and web applications in ... 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 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 Tony Byrne on 19-Aug-2010
All enterprises need to archive certain documents, but what's the best approach? Specifically, are there better alternatives to the traditional TIFF format? In a new advisory briefing, we argue that PDF/A brings several advantages ... 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 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 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 Jarrod Gingras on 28-Jun-2010
The community commons ECM Maturity Model (www.ECM3.org) progressed to v2.0 last week ... 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 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 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 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 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 Apoorv Durga on 31-Mar-2010
It's been a year now since we launched our ECM Maturity Model under Creative Commons, and it seems to have proven comprehensive as well as extensible for different groups adapting it for their specific environments ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 25-Mar-2010
Last month marked the one-year anniversary of the open source ECM Maturity model, "ECM3" ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Mar-2010
Yesterday we released a new advisory paper on workflow. The briefing focusses in particular on what you need to look for (and what you can dispense with) in Web CMS and Digital Asset Management environments ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Mar-2010
My colleague Alan has produced two short briefings of special interest to content technology selection teams ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 24-Feb-2010
Does Google Analytics' new availability on apps.gov mean unfettered availability of the free analytics tool for US federal government agencies? A story in SearchEngineWatch might lead you to think so, but key leaders in the Federal web analytics community point out ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Feb-2010
There's a question that keeps popping up around our industry: "What is Enterprise Content Management?" ... 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 13-Jul-2009
One standard/specification that gets little attention in the ECM world is XAM ... 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 Kas Thomas on 9-Jul-2009
The word "silo" (referring to a single, monolithic resource repository of some kind, often dedicated to a single vendor's applications) has such negative connotations these days that to suggest silos are actually good or necessary is to risk excommunication from the IT priesthood ... 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 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 Phil Kemelor on 17-Jun-2009
It may be that we are on the verge of significant changes to the US Federal government policy on the use of persistent cookies ... 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 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 Kas Thomas on 2-Jun-2009
One of the most striking trends underway in the DAM space right now (indications of which were abundantly present in the exhibitor booths at this year's Henry Stewart DAM Symposium in New York) is the rush toward Adobe Flex-based client interfaces ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 20-May-2009
There's too much here to write up in one blog post, so I'll pick one of the cherries for you here. Last week's Enterprise Search Summit in New York ended with roundtable discussions ... 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 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 27-Apr-2009
There's been an interesting development with regard to Content Management Interoperability Services ... 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 Kas Thomas on 8-Apr-2009
We've been talking to a number of DAM vendors lately, and it's exciting to see so much new R&D and "capability buildout" going on at a time when activity in certain other spaces is (by comparison) rather slack, due to cost-cutting and other factors. ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Mar-2009
A month ago we quietly launched a new maturity model for ECM. It was a two-year global effort among ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 20-Mar-2009
Yesterday, OASIS (the standards body behind things like DocBook and BPEL) approved a new standard ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Mar-2009
Microsoft's browser went out for general release today. Like you, we'll be scrambling ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 13-Mar-2009
When enterprise search vendors say they're moving into Business Intelligence, I walk to my closet to take out my skepticism hat. ... 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 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 27-Feb-2009
I'm looking forward very much to moderating the ECM Analyst Panel at the AIIM Expo on ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Feb-2009
It often becomes apparent to buyers that the most complex part of an ECM project is often the capture (imaging) portion ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Feb-2009
I'm pleased to share that CMS Watch, Wipro, Hartman Communicatie, and Smigiel Consulting Group have published Version 1.0 of an ... 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 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 Jarrod Gingras on 9-Feb-2009
As an obsessive fan of baseball's Boston Red Sox, I am one of the last people to defend the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez. As an analyst of content management technology and practices ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 6-Feb-2009
I am really pleased to announce that today our Enterprise Portals Certificate Education Course goes live ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 4-Feb-2009
Microsoft recently released an MSDN article written by Trent Swanson and Bhushan Nene ... 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 Kas Thomas on 31-Jan-2009
Last week, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office made public a new Microsoft patent application titled "Content Management System and External Data Storage System Data Synchronization." ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 14-Jan-2009
I've heard too many people say DAM is "kind of like WCM" or "just like document management, but for pictures." ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Jan-2009
Two noted content management gurus, Bob Boiko and Erik Hartman, are preparing an annual publication called ... 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 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 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 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 Tony Byrne on 5-Dec-2008
James Robertson has produced a very practical paper on how to assess the usability of Web CMS tools ... 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 Kas Thomas on 19-Nov-2008
A recent press release concerning ArnoldIT's Google monitoring service piqued my interest ... 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 Kas Thomas on 27-Oct-2008
I've spent a lot of time recently researching various information-access technologies and search products, and I had a bit of an "Aha moment" the other day... ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Oct-2008
October 30 marks what could be a bitter-sweet day for Java aficionados ... 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 Kas Thomas on 1-Oct-2008
Ordinarily, the last company on earth I'd expect to support open-source JavaScript libraries is Microsoft ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Sep-2008
Not long ago I bloggged about the newly announced Content Management Interoperability Services specification, which is ... 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 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 Shawn Shell on 16-Sep-2008
In case you didn't read the blog entry about CMIS by Kas, Microsoft, EMC, and IBM recently announce that they, along with other vendors like Open Text and Alfresco, have submitted a new content integration standard ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 10-Sep-2008
It's often said that the great thing about industry standards is that there are so many of them. Now we have one more ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 3-Sep-2008
My girlfriend really doesn't like spiders, so I regularly get to roll up my newspaper and squash one. I'm not so much afraid of them, but that's starting to change: they can be lethal to a website ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Aug-2008
Last week Microsoft announced new licensing arrangement for its products, including SharePoint Server 2007 ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 18-Aug-2008
Big Blue recently released its IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Jul-2008
WordPress version 2.6 was released two weeks ago, and as I reviewed 2.5 for the Enterprise Social Software Report 2008, I was eager to run it through its paces ... 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 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 Kas Thomas on 9-Jul-2008
In the future, your search system may need to scale to handle billions of documents. For some companies, the future is now. ... 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 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 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 Kas Thomas on 22-May-2008
Lawyers were well represented (you might say) at this year's Enterprise Search Summit in New York. At times, ESS felt more like an e-discovery conference ... 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 Phil Kemelor on 15-May-2008
Omniture's Q1 2008 financial results were as rosy as ever ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 9-May-2008
A CMS Watch customer implementing Liferay Portal sent me this screenshot below ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 6-May-2008
Just when you thought the Java application server market was pretty well saturated ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 26-Apr-2008
Having spent a great deal of time in recent weeks talking to vendors, consultants, and customers in the Digital Asset Management space (in preparing for the upcoming release of our Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008) ... 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 Tony Byrne on 23-Apr-2008
Our new SharePoint Report explains how one of the core challenges with the platform -- dating from inception through to MOSS 2007 -- is that ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Apr-2008
I have used a slide called "The E in ECM" in various PowerPoint incarnations for years ... 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 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 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 Tony Byrne on 29-Feb-2008
I'll be moderating a morning keynote panel at the AIIM Expo in Boston, MA, USA, entitled "The Future of Information Management: The CIO's Perspective." ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 29-Feb-2008
Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, speaking at the SugarCRM Customer and Developer Conference earlier this month, made a pronouncement that went largely unnoticed by industry pundits ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 25-Feb-2008
In January the World Wide Web Consortium released the first working draft for HTML 5, a next version of the essential hypertext standard ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 21-Feb-2008
Ever wondered how the major Java EE application servers compare with regard to basic session-handling performance? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 13-Feb-2008
Congrats to Lou Rosenfeld, whose company published its first book, Mental Models. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Feb-2008
I sat in on the keynote panel at LegalTech in New York yesterday. As an old cynic I tend to think that I have heard it all before (and I probably have), but yesterday I was jolted awake by some quotes that left me ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 7-Feb-2008
It seems an important new buzzphrase has been christened by analyst Michael Coté of RedMonk, the open-source research firm. The Stackless Stack ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 30-Jan-2008
We all have our computer time-wasters. For some it's games, for others, IM'ing with friends. For me, it's the geo-web ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 29-Jan-2008
Terminology in the content technology business is a tricky thing to deal with: different interpretations of the same label can leave buyers confused, and mis-sold ... 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 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 Janus Boye on 21-Dec-2007
While the world is still waiting for vendors to fully support Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7), a new IE 8 appears to be coming just around the corner. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 21-Dec-2007
Ironically, one of the main roadblocks to widespread adoption of JSR-170 (the Java Content Repository standard, now more accurately referred to as JSR-283) may be Java itself ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Dec-2007
CMS Watch evaluates vendors for a living. But what if we turned our gaze on our own predictions? ... 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 Kas Thomas on 14-Dec-2007
Is lack of standards compliance an anti-trust issue? The Opera folks think so ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 13-Dec-2007
Every once in a while, a game-changing technology overtakes an industry while it's napping. That seems to be happening right now with the iPhone ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Nov-2007
...though some (especially the larger, more disparate institutions) may be more equal than others ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 29-Nov-2007
Question: What's the difference between a backup and an archive? ... 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 22-Nov-2007
Here in the USA it is "Thanksgiving" holiday -- a very pleasant time when we gather with family and declare our various gratitudes. In that spirit, I'll list some content technology things for which, I think, we can all be grateful ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 7-Nov-2007
When I'm teaching or writing about content management, one of my mantras is that, to the extent usability is fundamentally "fitness to purpose," then you cannot declare any software tool inherently more usable or "intuitive." ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Oct-2007
It would be interesting to know how many failed ECM projects stemmed from the wrong deployment methodology. I was pondering on this after a discussion with ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 4-Oct-2007
Omniture announced that it now has 270 locations throughout the U.S. and 17 other countries around the world where individuals can complete testing to become Omniture Certified Professionals. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 21-Sep-2007
If you're in the market for search technology, you probably hear a lot about faceted browsing, guided navigation, refining, clustering, categorization, and so on. Many of today's search engines attempt to present more than just keyword search. That's fine if your content has high-quality structured metadata, but what if you throw in thousands of Word documents where the "author" is defined as John Doe? ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 11-Sep-2007
Last week found me teaching a 2-day course on Build, Benchmark and Improving Portals in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with delegates from Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Benchmarking is helpful as a way to assess current strengths and weaknesses, but remember that a portal can be measured in many ways ... 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 Phil Kemelor on 31-Aug-2007
Last week, the Web Analytics Association (WAA) released their definitions of 26 common terms used for reporting and metrics ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 9-Aug-2007
Today CMS Watch officially kicks off a formal training program. In conjunction with AIIM, we are providing classroom workshops (leading to official AIIM designations) in Information Organisation & Access (IOA) and Business Process Management (BPM). I'm very excited about these new courses. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Jul-2007
Jane McConnell continues to do some interesting research. The second edition of her annual "Global Intranet & Portal Strategies Survey" is now open to enterprise participation ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Jun-2007
In the content management world I sense something of a brewing backlash against SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), but I wonder how real or or even practical this is. With most Fortune 2000 firms are already way down the path with SOA, there seems to be no turning back. At the enterprise architecture level, there is no Plan B. ... 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 6-Feb-2007
A recent posting on the Microsoft SharePoint Product Group's official blog provides some estimated release timeframes for SharePoint 2007 Language Packs. At least 10 official European Union languages remain unavailable, with the latest coming in June ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 2-Feb-2007
An interesting technical article on the Sun Developer Network provides helpful tips on applying AJAX to JSR 168 portlets. The article concludes that, "Indisputably, limitations and caveats exist in programming AJAX with respect to JSR 168 portlets," ... Continue Reading
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While many enterprises are still feeling the impact of the new IE7 on CMS and Portal implementations, Slashdot last week reported on some upcoming browser versions. ... 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 Tony Byrne on 10-Jan-2007
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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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Dec-2006
Today James Governer prompted a discussion on his famous blog regarding ECM and Security. He raises some very good questions while lobbying other enterprise buyers to team with him to pressure ECM vendors to respond. I'm sure many ECM vendors will be secretly annoyed ... Continue Reading
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