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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 Theresa Regli on 26-Dec-2007
There's no time like the holidays for catching up on back issues of The Economist (don't worry, we're baking cookies, too), and this morning I found myself engrossed by a tale of pattern matching ... 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 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 Tony Byrne on 14-Dec-2007
That's the title of a badly-needed new book by Martin White. At CMS Watch, we tend to focus on search technology, with an eye toward helping ... 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 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 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 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 26-Nov-2007
Something appears to be quite amiss at Interwoven. On 15th November a notice of non-compliance was served against the company by NASDAQ. ... 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 Kas Thomas on 20-Nov-2007
Andrew Davies of Portcullis Computer Security Ltd reports that an older version of FatWire's Web CMS product, Content Server 6.3.0, exposes cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities ... 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 Tony Byrne on 19-Nov-2007
As readers of the SharePoint chapters of our Web CMS Report and Enterprise Search Report know, there are many good online and book-length resources about MOSS 2007 in general, but almost all of them ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 19-Nov-2007
The changes at WebTrends continue ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Nov-2007
While writing reviews for the new Enterprise Search Report, I found myself frequently saying you should test the effectiveness of a given product against your own corpus of content, which is reiterated in the Report's "Advice" section. But I can't help ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Nov-2007
CMS Watch is frequently -- and I think justifiably -- critical of Vignette's "VCM" web content management platform (c.f., my review of their new management interface). But in fairness, there is one thing that the product does fairly well ... 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 Jarrod Gingras on 14-Nov-2007
We have just a few spots remaining for a class I'll be teaching on Information Organization and Access in New York from December 10-13, 2007 ... 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 Tony Byrne on 13-Nov-2007
Last week at cmf2007 Raimond Kempees, a developer and consultant at Radagio, gave a nice talk assessing MOSS 2007. Among other things, Raimond relayed some of the challenges ... 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 Jarrod Gingras on 12-Nov-2007
This past week at the Enterprise Search Summit in San Jose, CA, I had a chance to meet up with some representatives of Mondosoft. In the wake of their bankruptcy announcement and SurfRay gobbling up the pieces, they appear to have emerged relatively unscathed under new Surfray ownership. ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 7-Nov-2007
Microsoft has announced an update to the mouthful "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for Search 2007" -- which is now called "Search Server 2008", but is still the somewhat stripped-down version of the full search engine ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 7-Nov-2007
A Web CMS survey conducted by the University of California at Davis (preliminary results of which were released October 22, 2007) made official what many of us suspected all along: Even the best minds in the world can't agree on how to do content management ... 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 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 Adriaan Bloem on 26-Oct-2007
...and sold to the bidder in the back. According to Danish website Computerworld, enterprise search vendor Mondosoft, which is currently in liquidation, has been bought by fellow countrymen ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 26-Oct-2007
Earlier this month at the annual Plone Conference 2007, the consulting firm "Plone Solutions" announced it would change its name to ... 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 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 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 Tony Byrne on 24-Oct-2007
If you haven't already, you should consider joining "CM Professionals." ... 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 Tony Byrne on 16-Oct-2007
Fellow analyst Mike Maziarka recently went over to the dark side (he now works for portal/middleware vendor BEA -- good catch for them). That's too bad, because Mike and I had a modest tradition of holding freewheeling "Town Hall" debates at industry conferences. There's one big topic where we could always disagree: tagging ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 15-Oct-2007
According to the Danish financial newspaper Børsen, enterprise search vendor Mondosoft is now in liquidation (via Version2) ... 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 Phil Kemelor on 9-Oct-2007
As part of my ongoing research for the Web Analytics Report, I've been looking more closely at vendor size and financial performance. Of course, most of the vendors in this space are privately held ... 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
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 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 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 Tony Byrne on 19-Sep-2007
There's a particular Dilbert cartoon making the rounds that pokes good fun at Web 2.0 in general and "folksonomies" in particular. Surely there is much to satirize here. ... Continue Reading
Added By Ann Rockley on 18-Sep-2007
DocZone.com, provider of the first SaaS-based content component management system, has introduced another novelty: pricing based on payment per minute. ... 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 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 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Sep-2007
On 17/18 October I will be hosting (along with Theresa) some round table discussions at the London Documation event ... 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 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 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 Ann Rockley on 29-Aug-2007
In an exchange with me yesterday, ECM/WCM vendor Interwoven confirmed that it no longer provides an XML-based content component management capability. (We had invited them to participate in our vendor product reviews for the forthcoming Content Component Management Report.) This came as a bit of a surprise ... 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 Theresa Regli on 26-Aug-2007
Like great bottles of wine or legendary concert performances, there are occasional taxonomy projects I hear about after the fact that I'm very sorry I missed. Recently in The New York Times, society and science columnist John Tierney reflected on the results of a taxonomy project at the University of Texas that attempted to classify all the reasons why people have sex ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 26-Aug-2007
This is blog entry number 1001 since we began CMS Watch six years ago. Not a huge deal, but I'd like to take the opportunity to thank all the contributors. And I'd also like to thank you, our readers, who have provided great comments and feedback, and who have generously given of your time and implementation experience to inform our product evaluation reports. We are really collectors of your wisdom ... 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 Ann Rockley on 22-Aug-2007
OASIS, an international open standards consortium, has recently announced that DITA version 1.1 has been approved as a standard. Three additions in particular provide responses to three frequent complaints heard about v1.0 ... 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 Phil Kemelor on 20-Aug-2007
If you're the only one managing web analytics at your company, you could feel a bit lonely. After the day's done, you might want to commiserate about the marketing folks that won't tell you when campaigns are launching, or IT staff who aren't implementing page tags completely ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 17-Aug-2007
Three weeks ago, Fast Search & Transfer announced a profit warning, readjusting its projected revenues to the $34 - $38 million range down from the $54 to $57 million the company expected only two months earlier. The company cited "changes in business practice with regard to the non-use of MoUs and the tightening of internal control procedures." ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 16-Aug-2007
This Autumn's North American conference season kicks off with a first-time gathering of web analytics professionals to be held in Napa, CA on September 20-21, called X Change. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 15-Aug-2007
Well, this three-letter acronym, for "Business Process Management," has been around for quite awhile. And like "ECM," BPM can mean both a practice and a set of technologies. As a set of technologies... ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 14-Aug-2007
One of the theoretical advantages of Java-based Portals and Content Management applications is the ability to cluster servers for better performance. But the reality is that clustering is a black art that few vendors and implementation teams really ever seem to master adequately. So it comes as a (welcome) surprise to learn of an open-source technology that delivers many (if not most) of the things customers want here, but in surprisingly quick, painless fashion, at low cost, with no need to recompile code or stay up nights learning about disturbing-sounding concepts like "STONITH" (shoot the other node in the head). ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Aug-2007
Of course, the world doesn't need another 3-letter acronym. But we think this one's important. IOA stands for "Information Organisation & Access", a new AIIM certificate course developed by CMS Watch and taught by both of us around the world ... 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 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 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 Tony Byrne on 4-Aug-2007
I'm delighted to announce the arrival of our newest Analyst, Kas Thomas. Kas will be covering Web Content Management and related technologies full-time. ... 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 Tony Byrne on 27-Jul-2007
The Greater London Authority is going to share Web Content Management System services to boroughs and other government entities on a fee-for-service basis. I don't think it will work. ... 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 Tony Byrne on 18-Jul-2007
Switzerland-based Web CMS vendor Day Software has always prided itself on offering customers additional capabilities for managing image assets. Now the company has built up and rolled out a formal Digital Asset Management (DAM) product called "CQ DAM." This raises an interesting question. What does it mean to manage media assets? ... 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 companyÂ’s 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 5-Jul-2007
People have always debated whether or not to embrace formal management and change methodologies when implementing enterprise content management (ECM). Should you employ a formal methodology or just use your best judgment and experience? I think you need both. ... 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 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 Janus Boye on 30-Jun-2007
In the Enterprise Portals Report I outline three different ways to segment the market: ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 29-Jun-2007
The Spring 2007 content technology conference circuit finally wound down earlier this month. I really enjoy the interaction with technology customers and consultants, and had some wide-ranging conversations around various buffets. But the ghost at every conference banquet is "change management." Most technology investments pre-suppose organizational, process, and informational change to yield the intended return. Yet, almost no one welcomes change. So how do you do it? ... 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 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 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 Tony Byrne on 21-Jun-2007
In the past few years the scope of technologies and vendors CMS Watch covers has expanded substantially. Yet I know most of you have very particular interests, maybe around a single technology family or a particular vendor. Those of you who access CMS Watch content via our RSS feed may be interested to know that we also publish special-interest feeds -- specifically by technology channel or vendor. ... 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 Jarrod Gingras on 14-Jun-2007
Content Management Professionals has announced the Call for Participation for its Fall 2007 Summit that will be held on November 26, 2007 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. This year's topic is Web Content Management. ... 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 Theresa Regli on 13-Jun-2007
On June 28 & 29th, join me in London for the Henry Stewart Symposium on Digital Asset Management, Workflow Automation, and Marketing Efficiency & Effectiveness. I'll be speaking about scenario-based product selection. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Jun-2007
Seth Gottlieb does a nice job of summarizing various models for pushing content from a management environment to a delivery environment. ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 11-Jun-2007
In presentations at conferences, I always ask how many people use web analytics tools. A vast majority of attendees raise their hands. But in follow up with individuals, conversations often go like this: ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 31-May-2007
Another conversation today and another datapoint to contribute to my growing belief that large enterprises are now re-embracing re-engineering. It seems that there is only so much streamlining you can do until you reach a point where you need to completely rethink a situation. ... 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 Tony Byrne on 25-May-2007
I received some good feedback on my recent article about vendor demos. As you can imagine, vendors have their own take on these issues. Here's some good additional advice I received: ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-May-2007
Have a burning content technology problem? Join us at the Gilbane Conference in Washington DC in early June for a special session where you'll get to share that problem with a team of expert consultants. ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-May-2007
Tony has provided some advice to vendors regarding product demos. Those 10 points make essential reading, but there is another perspective. Since I have personally sat in on those demos both as a buyers' advisor and as a vendor (system integrator), I need to add several points to the list. ... Continue Reading
Added By Ann Rockley on 16-May-2007
X-Pubs, Europe's main conference on XML-based publishing and content management, is back for its second year (June 4-5, Reading, UK). ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-May-2007
"When Search & ECM Collide" was the title of a tutorial I ran in New York yesterday. It's an important topic to explore as both Search vendors and ECM vendors both seem to believe that ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 15-May-2007
After the visitors we polled requested a simpler layout, we redesigned our site. Love it? Hate it? Both? Please let us know. [P.S.: if you hated it, please try again...we just fixed a CSS caching problem.] ... 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 11-May-2007
I have just been reminded of one of the fundamentals involved in business process change (while reading through Dan Madison's excellent book on the topic): the principal of "Away From" and "Go To" reasons for change. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-May-2007
Typo3 is a longstanding and very popular open source Web CMS. Although written in PHP, Typo3 employs own declarative configuration language called "TypoScript" for templating. TypoScipt's language and syntax are sufficiently complicated to merit an entire book on it. ... 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 Tony Byrne on 7-May-2007
StepTwo's James Robertson has identified 11 usability principles for CMS products. I would quibble that some of his rules are actually more situational rather than universal. But if you care about actual user adoption ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 7-May-2007
Delighted to share that today Jarrod Gingras joins CMS Watch as a Research Analyst. ... 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 3-May-2007
At next month's Gilbane DC conference, I'm going to host our version of MTV's Pimp My Ride. In the "Pump My Website" competition, ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 30-Apr-2007
At the recent AIIM Expo I had the privilege to lead a panel, "When E Means Big," where customers revealed lessons learned in truly huge ECM deployments, as opposed to the "regular" world of ECM. What struck me was how the discussion barely touched on technology, but instead gravitated toward such issues as Governance, Strategy, Funding, and Ownership. A strong consensus emerged ... 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 Theresa Regli on 26-Apr-2007
A couple of months ago, I got many reponses from fellow frustrated iPod owners to my post about how bad metadata in iPods makes for a bad user experience. The same was true last week at the AIIM Expo, when during my taxonomy tutorial, the audience was quick to point out the problems they endured transfering bad metadata from CDs to their online jukebox ... 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
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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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Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Feb-2007
The good folks at Welchman Consulting are hosting a survey on one of their specialties, "Web Operations Management." ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Feb-2007
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
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Feb-2007
The well-regarded "cmf" international web conference series continues again with cmf2007 in Århus, Denmark this November. ... Continue Reading
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Janus offers a short review of WebSphere Portal in Intelligent Enterprise magazine. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Feb-2007
Many enterprises expecting to install plug-and-play content management and portal solutions are frequently surprised at the extent to which they are really developing full-blown applications. And at that point, with any packaged software, you have to deal with ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 7-Feb-2007
Google's recent announcement that it upgraded the "Mini" version of its Search Appliance ("GSA") inspires me to share some useful links that have been accumulating in open tabs ... 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 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 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
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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 Tony Byrne on 10-Jan-2007
Want to help lead the content management community in 2007? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 9-Jan-2007
James Robertson is surveying enterprise portal and intranet usage. Specifically, he wants to know whether and how you personalize your portal experience. ... 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 3-Jan-2007
Yesterday I prodded content technology software vendors to take more responsibility for customer success. But sometimes customers are to blame when things go wrong. For example, we frequently see companies issuing software RFPs amid blissful ignorance of their own unreadiness to implement new technology. ... 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
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