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Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Dec-2008
After spending a good amount of time talking to technology customers in Europe during the last quarter, I've concluded that attitudes towards ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 19-Dec-2008
November brought bad news for all Livelyzens ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 18-Dec-2008
I recently had the great fortune of taking a holiday trip around the diverse and beautiful country of South Africa ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Dec-2008
One of my favorite little phrases is "double edged sword," and I found a perfect application for it recently, in a discussion of "incumbent" vendors ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Dec-2008
I recently received an interesting survey from Steven Ashley, senior research analyst at Robert W Baird & Company, a financial services firm. The survey tried to figure out the analytics tools employed by the 500 most heavily-trafficked websites ... 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 Tony Byrne on 16-Dec-2008
Sitting through countless vendor demos to clients over the past couple of years, I've noticed a trend -- at least among Web CMS and Portal vendors -- of sales engineers ("SEs") emphasizing sales over engineering ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Dec-2008
The ECM world is dominated by EMC, Open Text, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle -- all big vendors with equally big publicity machines to keep their brands and "story" right ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Dec-2008
Today we released our annual predictions for 2009 ... 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 Kas Thomas on 9-Dec-2008
If you're one of the many industry observers who's wondered why Microsoft hasn't created a decent blogging platform ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 9-Dec-2008
Ironically, laying people off (as a way to improve operating efficiency) is not cheap. Just ask Adobe Systems. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 8-Dec-2008
Digital Asset Management vendor ClearStory announced last week that they've been acquired by The FeedRoom, a web video management software and services provider ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 5-Dec-2008
As I wandered around the Gilbane Boston 2008 show last week, the question I heard people asking each other most often was some variation ... 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 Tony Byrne on 4-Dec-2008
Ask Web CMS vendor FatWire. Linda Tucci calls it, "...a booby trap." ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Dec-2008
Talking about SharePoint in Copenhagen today and yesterday reminded me of an interesting point ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 1-Dec-2008
This week, my colleagues Jarrod, Alan and I will be at the Online Information Conference in London... ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 1-Dec-2008
With recession clouds forming, there just has to be a silver lining. And thanks to Autonomy, I now know what it is: ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 26-Nov-2008
As we start to wind down 2008 and move into 2009, I still hear the same question from clients who have implemented or want to implement SharePoint: ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 25-Nov-2008
It has become fashionable lately to declare that search is dead ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 24-Nov-2008
As we start to look back on the past year, one of the key trends we have seen is the resurgence of interest in capture software ... 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 Tony Byrne on 20-Nov-2008
I recently had a very nice chat about SharePoint with Linda Tucci of SearchCIO ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 20-Nov-2008
Recently, I've heard several people make the statement that "law firms grow most during tough economic times" ... 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 19-Nov-2008
I recently had a wide-ranging interview with Government Computer News ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Nov-2008
Yesterday I attended the Interwoven annual Analyst Day in New York. It was an interesting day in many respects ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Nov-2008
I'm excited to announce the latest version of our SharePoint research, the SharePoint Report 2009 ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 13-Nov-2008
Day Software's David Nuescheler (CTO) and Kevin Cochrane (the company's new CMO) were in town last week, and we had an interesting lunchtime conversation, much of it centered on the long-awaited Version 5 ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 11-Nov-2008
Last week Oracle released WebLogic Portal 10.3 ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 11-Nov-2008
These aren't exactly the best of times for WCM/Portal/ECM vendor, Vignette Corporation. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Nov-2008
At recent Henry Stewart DAM conferences a couple of ClearStory Systems customers mentioned to me that ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 10-Nov-2008
It has been more than 6 months since the most recent press release with any substance from privately-held Web CMS vendor Percussion ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Nov-2008
While I was at jboye08, talking about enterprise search, Google snuck up from behind and surprised me ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Nov-2008
Cloud computing is one of those buzzphrases that, like "redistribution of income," seems to make otherwise dispassionate people hyperventilate ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 6-Nov-2008
Here at J. Boye 2008 in Denmark, yesterday we held the 3rd-annual Web Idol ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 5-Nov-2008
Recently a buyer of our Digital & Media Asset Management Report contacted me with a few questions about vendors they're considering ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 3-Nov-2008
Well, it was actually kind of an expected surprise ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 2-Nov-2008
French-based commercial open source portal vendor eXo recently used a blog post to announce that they have almost 100 active contributors ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Oct-2008
Microsoft's announcement this week of its intention to expose SaaS versions of its Office products ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Oct-2008
What's wrong with this picture? ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 28-Oct-2008
Janus has already provided a first take on Redmond releasing another service pack for the Office products ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 27-Oct-2008
Recent months have seen -- perhaps inevitably -- something of a backlash against blogging ... 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 Janus Boye on 26-Oct-2008
On Friday Microsoft announced a few interesting details on the next service pack for SharePoint. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 26-Oct-2008
I've just started new research on how Google's many enterprise tools are being used ... 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 24-Oct-2008
I've been advising a large enterprise in the midst of a somewhat complex Web CMS and Component Content Management implementation ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Oct-2008
Web CMS vendor Day Software announced earlier this week that Kevin Cochrane had signed on as Chief Marketing Officer ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Oct-2008
One of the words that makes me most cringe when I hear or see it in vendor marketing is the word scalable ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Oct-2008
As part of our ongoing commitment to helping business and technology managers make better decisions, I'm very pleased to announce our first of two online courses focusing on SharePoint ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Oct-2008
Every day I am assaulted by a barrage of press releases, almost all of which contain nothing of interest ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Oct-2008
We've really sensed over the last year that more and more enterprises are taking a closer look at Digital Asset Management (DAM) technology ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-Oct-2008
I tend to be a bit "old school" when it comes to note taking and writing, something that can drive my colleagues ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 17-Oct-2008
We're looking forward very much to the annual J. Boye conference in Aarhus, Denmark during the first week in November, because ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Oct-2008
In a week in which Symantec paid over half a billion dollars to buy a SaaS email archiving service, Google Postini announced that they would now ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 16-Oct-2008
It's official: Fast Search & Transfer has been charged with accounting fraud ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Oct-2008
Last week Symantec agreed to purchase MessageLabs, the UK-based SaaS e-mail archiving service for $695 million ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Oct-2008
I have decided that I love user group meetings, and I want to go to more, so please invite me to yours... ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 15-Oct-2008
I'm hearing a lot of chatter among social software cognoscenti about how the looming recession will impact ... 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 Phil Kemelor on 13-Oct-2008
Omniture's share price tanked last week after it was downgraded by a Wall St analyst who found that ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 12-Oct-2008
At CMS Watch we love Italy and many things Italian.... ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 9-Oct-2008
The Web CMS Report 2009 is bigger, better, and dare I say, badder than the fourteen previous editions ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 8-Oct-2008
A former colleague of mine, one of the smartest engineers I have ever had the pleasure of working with, recently attended "developer training" for WCM vendor ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Oct-2008
To know what's really going on within a firm or the industry in which it operates you need to watch where the money is flowing ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Oct-2008
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technology goes back around 30 years, and at it's heart lies document management and workflow ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 6-Oct-2008
Some big news happened a couple of weeks ago that seems to have gone by without much notice ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Oct-2008
While traveling from Washington, DC to San Jose, CA for KM World last week to speak about (among other things) e-mail archiving, I encountered this advertisement in both airports ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Oct-2008
As bailouts become a global phenomenon, it's time to review what this all means for you, the technology buyer ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 2-Oct-2008
Remember Google the way it was in 2001? ... 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 Janus Boye on 25-Sep-2008
In case you were not among the 43,000 delegates this year at Oracle OpenWorld 2008, Oracle did reveal interesting details on ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Sep-2008
SharePoint has been on my mind a lot recently, not least because we have been undertaking ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Sep-2008
Yesterday Google sponsored lunch at the KM World and Intranets 2008 conference, and while we noshed on chicken ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Sep-2008
I'm giving a free webinar on this topic tomorrow (Wednesday) at 2pm EST (GMT -5). It's in cooperation with the forthcoming ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 24-Sep-2008
Most content management professionals know very well the importance of user-based acceptance testing, and understand the high stakes involved ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Sep-2008
In the crush to support public websites, I think (too) many Web CMS vendors are ignoring Intranet scenarios ... 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 Janus Boye on 22-Sep-2008
Today finds me in San Francisco for the annual >Oracle OpenWorld mega-conference. ... 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 Phil Kemelor on 17-Sep-2008
Readers of the Web Analytics Report know that there are many steps to creating a successful web analytics initiative ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Sep-2008
Today I'm proud to announce the release of the 2009 edition of The ECM Suites Report ... 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 Phil Kemelor on 14-Sep-2008
I hope to see you in Aarhus this coming November at the tutorial I'm teaching at ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Sep-2008
I came across this job opening, which roughly translates as, "Wanted: Tridion developer. Must know everything (and then some)." ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Sep-2008
Over the past two years, Web Content Management vendors have fallen over themselves to provide more interactive services on the front ends of websites ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 12-Sep-2008
If you're a regular reader of this blog -- or our various reports -- the HartmanEVENT 2008 in Utrecht, The Netherlands next week ... 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 Janus Boye on 8-Sep-2008
An initial commercial release of the new enterprise portal from Sun is not expected until early 2009 ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Sep-2008
What happens when Google calls old pages "news "? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Sep-2008
If you missed our one-hour SharePoint Webinar last week, never fear -- ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 4-Sep-2008
September this year sees an early start to the conference season, and I find myself first in the Netherlands and then off to India ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 4-Sep-2008
Today I got a call from my friend Paul Steep at Scotia Capital regarding an Open Text announcement this morning ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Sep-2008
KMWorld Magazine recently challenged me to summarize enterprise social software technology in under 1600 words ... 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 Theresa Regli on 1-Sep-2008
There's a number of reasons SharePoint doesn't cut it for enterprise Digital Asset Management... ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 29-Aug-2008
Microsoft announced yesterday through a TechNet blog entry that they have released an update to the SharePoint administration toolkit ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 29-Aug-2008
Search is important to most SharePoint projects, but unfortunately it is also something that ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 29-Aug-2008
Is SAP slowly moving into the ECM space? ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Aug-2008
It wasn't news that rocked the world, and in fact most observers didn't even notice it, but I was struck ... 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 Tony Byrne on 27-Aug-2008
Today we released the Enterprise Portals Report 2009, which evaluates twelve major portal offerings ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 25-Aug-2008
Noted wiki vendor Socialtext has been busy appearing at high-profile conferences to promote ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 25-Aug-2008
Last week, European web analytics vendor Nedstat announced a new feature called "Live Segmentation" ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Aug-2008
At the TDWI Summit this week, I had the opportunity to talk about Web Analytics with enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) execs ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 19-Aug-2008
A few weeks ago, I questioned whether the SaaS Web CMS vendor Marqui was "going belly up"... ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Aug-2008
Google has announced its new Search Appliance, version 5.2. ... 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 Theresa Regli on 15-Aug-2008
In collaboration with our partner, KM World, my colleague Tony Byrne will lead a free webinar, How to Evaluate SharePoint for the Enterprise, on the 28th of August at 2 p.m. US ET / 11 a.m. PT. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Aug-2008
A question we are often asked is "Does CMS Watch provide consulting services?" In fact this question is asked so often, I thought a quick blog entry might be in order. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Aug-2008
Laserfiche is an ECM vendor we have been watching and writing about for a while, and our coverage of them in The ECM Suites Report is set to extend this year as we evaluate their new Rio offering ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Aug-2008
We've been following Web CMS vendor Hot Banana for some time now ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Aug-2008
I'm thrilled to invite you to two seminars and a full-day conference on enterprise search, findability and information architecture, taking place next month in the wonderful cities of Copenhagen and London ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 1-Aug-2008
As the buzz has it, public website search engine Cuil is the new Google challenger ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 1-Aug-2008
The SharePoint IT Pro Documentation Team recently published a blog post on the various Microsoft "enterprise" search technologies. The post did a nice job of clarifying the role of each of Microsoft's various search tools, save FAST ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 31-Jul-2008
Microsoft SharePoint goes open source? Shock, horror! Ok, well not quite, but an open source alternative to SharePoint is now an option with the release of Alfresco's Lab 3 beta product ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 31-Jul-2008
As we enter the peak of the vacation season, those of us fortunate enough leave the rat race and head off to distant shores. And it was whilst on a very distant shore this past week that I came across an advertisement that stopped me dead in my tracks ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 31-Jul-2008
We've mentioned in the past the agonizingly long buildup to the release of Version 5 of Day Communiqué. The product's lackluster user interface remains a glaring sore point in what is otherwise a very capable and elegantly architected (if pricey) WCM platform ... 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 Janus Boye on 30-Jul-2008
In an interesting blog posting by Andrew Petro, Senior Software Engineer at Unicon, he mentions that uPortal is commonly successfully adopted as a self-service portal platform. By contrast, our research finds uPortal is an unlikely fit for e-business and self-service portals ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 29-Jul-2008
Today we release a new edition of our Web Analytics Report 2008, a Basic Edition. This new edition focuses on the smaller players in the web analytics space ... 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 Kas Thomas on 25-Jul-2008
Vignette and Interwoven have released their second-quarter 2008 results, and it's a study in contrasts ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 25-Jul-2008
Over the last few weeks, I've had the opportunity to speak to various customers about SharePoint licensing. The common theme is that most don't understand Microsoft licensing ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 24-Jul-2008
A few weeks ago, I was having drinks with a friend of mine who'd recently separated from her husband. She hadn't told many people the news as of a week before we met up, but then she changed her relationship status on Facebook ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 24-Jul-2008
While Web CMS vendor Sitecore has been busy promoting the new user interface in its recently released Version 6, the company has attracted quite a bit of criticism from existing customers ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Jul-2008
A new season brings an updated vendor map: ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 22-Jul-2008
In a thoughtful post at JavaLobby, developer Ali Loghmani poses a simple but important question: Why is Web UI development so slow? ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 22-Jul-2008
Via numerous acquisitions, Oracle has built up a formidable collection of products that they sell for Portals, Content Management, Web 2.0, and other content technologies ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Jul-2008
Nobody likes content migrations. But they're inevitable. Like trips to the dentist ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 21-Jul-2008
Flying below the radar for most North American analysts, French-based commercial open source portal vendor eXo has been very busy recently ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Jul-2008
In talking to wiki users, we find a wide range of sophistication. Some are quite content with ... 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 Shawn Shell on 18-Jul-2008
Through the SharePoint product team's MSDN blog, Microsoft announced that it had released a significant infrastructure update for SharePoint ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 17-Jul-2008
I recently wrote an article for DOCUMENT Magazine summarizing the state of the digital asset management industry ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 17-Jul-2008
In "Why Most Online Communities Fail," the Wall Street Journal cites some very useful Deloitte research on businesses who launch their own online communities ... Continue Reading
Added By Ann Rockley on 17-Jul-2008
Today Quark Inc. announced that it is acquiring the assets of In.vision Research Corporation ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 17-Jul-2008
While working with a client in the U.S. state of Rhode Island, I discovered an interesting approach to providing directions: don't give directions by using landmarks that still exist, but rely on someone's historical knowledge of what landmarks used to exist ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 16-Jul-2008
Last week I wrote about Open Text's acquisition of eMotion, and may have added to the confusion over the alphabet soup of DAM, MAM, and MOM ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 16-Jul-2008
Press releases are a funny thing, I thought as I saw the announcement from JupiterResearch that ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Jul-2008
We're tough on SharePoint. That's because we frequently see enterprises wandering into the platform (thinking it's "easy" or "free") without always realizing the complexity of what they're about to get into. Still, ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Jul-2008
CMS Watch is looking for someone who suffers from a variant of our particular obsessive disorder: a passionate interest in how content technologies really work ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Jul-2008
In our Enterprise Portals Report evaluations, we point out that vendors who tightly couple their portal offerings to other pieces of their underlying platforms can't call themselves truly Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) -ready ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jul-2008
We're pleased that CMS Watch now covers ten different technologies, but I suspect that many of you take an interest in only one or two families of tools ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jul-2008
Gartner's recent "MarketScope for Web Content Management" has predictably garnered a lot of attention from vendors happy with their position in the ratings chart. I have a mixed reaction ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 11-Jul-2008
On the heels of my colleague Alan's report of Open Text's purchase of Spicer, the next sign along the company's acquisition trail was posted yesterday with the acquisition of media asset management vendor eMotion ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 11-Jul-2008
Recently, I was alerted to TechVibes' news that Marqui was in receivership... ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 9-Jul-2008
Late last month I had the pleasure of attending the Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Symposium in London, UK, where I presented a summary of our research recently ... 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 Kas Thomas on 8-Jul-2008
Over at the Adobe Developer Connection website, Belgian developer Sébastien Arbogast has posted an interesting article (a tutorial of sorts) on how to write next-generation web apps in Flex ... 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 Kas Thomas on 7-Jul-2008
Until a few days ago, Adobe's Portable Document Format was an open format in name only. The specification was freely available, to be sure, but PDF's development and direction remained firmly ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 7-Jul-2008
Almost 6 months after Oracle announced a definitive agreement to acquire BEA, the company definitively stated its direction on the future of its ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 5-Jul-2008
The Fast Search & Transfer news continues to keep me on my toes. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 4-Jul-2008
Open Text is back on the acquisition trail. The company announced Thursday that they ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Jul-2008
We've critiqued SharePoint's rather awkward web publishing capabilities in different evaluation reports (on Web CMS tools and SharePoint itself). But we also see customers who seek to deploy SharePoint for their public websites, either because ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 28-Jun-2008
The Enterprise Social Software Report 2008: Networking & Collaboration Within and Beyond the Enterprise has now been officially published and is available for download. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 27-Jun-2008
This past week I had the pleasure of keynoting at the DocTrain event in Indianapolis (held at the truly magnificent Union Station venue), and also running a small session on "How to procure Content Technologies." ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 27-Jun-2008
The whole issue of (E-mail Archiving and Management) EAM has come under the spotlight recently - triggered by ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 27-Jun-2008
Fortiva, the Canadian SaaS vendor has been acquired by Proofpoint. Interesting move for a couple of reasons ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 26-Jun-2008
As one of the authors of our Enterprise Search Report 2008, I've been spending a lot of time lately looking at search technology and talking to folks who care deeply about the subject ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 25-Jun-2008
As the Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Symposium kicks off in London, we comment in today's press release on a few areas where DAM vendors are coming up short ... 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 24-Jun-2008
Web Analytics Report readers know that one of the biggest issues about Omniture SiteCatalyst is the complexity of the implementation ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 23-Jun-2008
There's something vaguely Orwellian, at times, about the language that turns up in quarterly and annual reports ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 23-Jun-2008
Here are some wrap-up thoughts from a couple of days at the Web Content 2008 conference in Chicago last week. I thought there was a fascinating dichotomy between days 1 and 2 of the conference ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Jun-2008
Oracle keeps moving down ECM trail with two new acquisitions to add to their growing portfolio. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Jun-2008
Today we read about yet another major financial scandal allegedly exposed through the discovery of an e-mail message from ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Jun-2008
After participating in the first day of the Gilbane San Francisco conference yesterday, here some short observations in no particular order ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-Jun-2008
People frequently ask me about where their Web Publishing efforts should end and Social Software begin. Like so many things, the answer is ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Jun-2008
It's been a while since there was a big product announcement in the ECM world, but today's announcement by Adobe that they will be embedding Alfresco ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 16-Jun-2008
In one of my university political science classes, we had to read and review a now famous essay by Francis Fukuyama titled "The End of History?" In the essay ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Jun-2008
This week I was speaking on the topic of EAM (E-Mail Archiving and Management) at the big SIFMA (Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association) event in New York ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 12-Jun-2008
For those who've read The Challenge of Mobile Analytics - Part 1 and hoping that the picture is brighter in Part 2, well...it all depends. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 11-Jun-2008
One thing surprised me while evaluating hosted blog solutions for the Enterprise Social Software Report 2008: customers often indicate they'd like to switch to another service, but ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 11-Jun-2008
Is it just me, or has anyone else been struck by the lack of attention being paid to blog comment spam? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jun-2008
The full name is actually Enterprise Social Software Report 2008: Networking & Collaboration Within and Beyond the Enterprise ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Jun-2008
One of today's keynotes at the Enterprise 2.0 conference featured a couple of guys from the CIA discussing the Intellipedia project to create an internal wiki shared by the entire U.S. national intelligence community ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 9-Jun-2008
This morning at the Enterprise 2.0 conference we were treated to a series of semi-structured Social Software demos pitting IBM (Connections) against Microsoft (SharePoint) ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 9-Jun-2008
As industry analysts, we are constantly traveling to various conferences to teach and learn from others. In addition to meeting potential new readers, one of the real benefits of attendance ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 6-Jun-2008
Microsoft recently announced the latest version of the Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (v1.2). This announcement is significant in ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 6-Jun-2008
In our most recent report, E-mail Archiving & Management (EAM), we struggled early on in the research process to differentiate in a meaningful way ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Jun-2008
...which comes to Boston next week, 9-12 June. It's a "big tent" conference that seems to accommodate many different notions of things-2.0 ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Jun-2008
Software-as-a-Service has an especially strong case in the area of Digital Asset Management, where the buyer is often a marketing manager or creative team with a fixed monthly budget and little to no IT support. But not all SaaS is created equal ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 3-Jun-2008
Apparently, when I previously wrote about Carrie's hand reaching out from the grave, the metaphor was too subtle. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 2-Jun-2008
It might come as little surprise that Oracle is very actively moderating their Oracle wiki, but a recent blog entry reminded me just how important culture is to wiki adoption ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 2-Jun-2008
You may remember a while back we launched our little competition to come up with a new name for our vendor positioning chart ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 2-Jun-2008
It's easy to forget just how big the world is -- but when you fly to Brazil as I did this past week, you can get some idea ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 30-May-2008
If there is a buzz around Web 2.0 in the Content Technology community, then there is a roar in the wider IT community around Cloud Computing ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-May-2008
I vividly remember being terrified as a child by the movie Carrie. The closing scene ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 29-May-2008
Sitecore is a very active Web CMS vendor with a tendency to adopt new technologies and techniques in advance of the rest of the market ... 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 Janus Boye on 26-May-2008
At a closing panel of a European Commission internal IT conference in Brussels last week, Andrew Sutherland, Oracle EMEA VP Technology repeated the frequently-issued official statement ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 25-May-2008
In a bold move Sun used the JavaOne conference earlier this month to announce that it will begin to work closely together with Liferay on next-generation web technologies ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 23-May-2008
I just returned from IIR's Enterprise-3 Conference in San Diego. It's an interesting conference for consultant and end-user alike, I think, because it brought together people interested in a variety of related topics ... 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 Tony Byrne on 22-May-2008
Joseph Bachana recently posted in these pages an excellent article on the Digital Asset Management (DAM) marketplace. I disagreed somewhat, though, ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-May-2008
This may well go down as the busiest period in CMS Watch's history as this month we launch yet another new technology evaluation report ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 18-May-2008
We recently pointed out that UK-based Web CMS vendor Mediasurface was being courted, and now the suitor has revealed themselves: ... 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 Adriaan Bloem on 16-May-2008
Searching information -- really, how hard can it be? So, why wouldn't you go out and get a search engine that's for free ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-May-2008
I just spent a couple of days in Chicago at BEA's (oops, Oracle's) "Participate" user conference. This is where AquaLogic (née Plumtree) Portal/Collaboration/BPM customers come to meet without any pesky WebLogic enthusiasts around ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-May-2008
As you know at CMS Watch we write critical product evaluations to help you avoid expensive procurement and deployment mistakes ... 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 Kas Thomas on 15-May-2008
Digital Asset Management may not constitute a huge slice of the ECM pie, but it's a fast-growing slice ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 15-May-2008
It's been a busy month at CMS Watch. Today we announce the release of another evaluation report ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-May-2008
The open source package Drupal is one of the few social publishing platforms built on top of a longstanding Web CM (WCM) system ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 13-May-2008
Yesterday at the Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management & Marketing Operations Symposium in New York, I sat in on a DAM "best practices" talk given by onetime independent consultant Linda Tadic ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 13-May-2008
As a content producer, it has been fascinating to watch the evolution of channels where technology suppliers talk to technology customers ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 12-May-2008
Over the last few years, many people (including us) have asked whether or not Facebook can be used as a enterprise intranet. Many have dismissed this notion ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 12-May-2008
As the Henry Stewart DAM Conference kicks off in New York City today, CMS Watch has quite a bit to say about the state of the DAM industry ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 9-May-2008
The worlds of SEO and enterprise search are not as far apart as you might think. Let me explain. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-May-2008
As an "Enterprise-focused" content management analyst, I am asked two basic questions on a regular basis ... 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 8-May-2008
In an earlier post, prompted by my recent involvement as co-lead analyst on The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008, I commented on a few areas in which DAM and MAM vendors seem ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 8-May-2008
The recently concluded eMetrics Summit was somewhat quiet on the vendor front except for the Coremetrics announcement ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 7-May-2008
I'm thrilled to announce the launch of The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008 ... 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 Tony Byrne on 6-May-2008
I've been hearing various rumors recently about mid-market Web CMS vendors up for sale. If true, ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 3-May-2008
When budget-building time comes up, many technology customers face the interesting question of how much money to put aside for new software licenses ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-May-2008
Everybody wants improved collaboration, but how, and towards what end? Or as we asked quite intently ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 2-May-2008
On a flight back to Boston from London yesterday I took a little time to digest what I had observed during the past week in the UK. It was an odd week really, and somewhat disconcerting as the contrast between the US and the UK was quite stark ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 30-Apr-2008
When JA-SIG announced Version 3.0 of uPortal in mid-April, it marked the ending of a very long development cycle ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Apr-2008
It's hard to know how Documentum is doing these days, now that it's been assimilated into EMC (the $32 billion ILM colossus) ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Apr-2008
Vignette announced its first-quarter numbers last week, and the results weren't pretty ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 29-Apr-2008
If you couldn't make the "Evaluating SharePoint from a Business Perspective" webinar we conducted last week ... 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 Tony Byrne on 22-Apr-2008
Our partners in Denmark, J. Boye, have just published a white paper, Wiki in the Enterprise ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 22-Apr-2008
"Recycling" information (a.k.a., "content reuse") is a critical goal for most content management systems. On this Earth Day 2008, I thought it appropriate to share another green movement that's emerging in the content management industry ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Apr-2008
Last week we received an e-mail from an IT staffer at an outfit that is looking to buy a Web CMS tool, with PaperThin's CommonSpot and RedDot CMS (part of the extended Open Text family) under particular consideration ... 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 Phil Kemelor on 20-Apr-2008
The announcement to make Yahoo! IndexTools a free service, coming so quickly on the heels of the acquisition, would seem to serve notice to ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 17-Apr-2008
We participate regularly in the semi-annual Enterprise3 Conference (former Portals and Collaboration Conference) ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Apr-2008
If there is one word I hate to hear used in this industry it's the word compliance ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 15-Apr-2008
Ted Leonsis, the former AOL executive and current owner of the NHL's Washington Capitals, recently posted a blog entry comparing Facebook's critical development crossroads to that of AOL. He challenges Facebook to ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Apr-2008
Oracle announced today that they were entering the archiving market with the release of "Universal Online Archive." UOA is an interesting entry to a market ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 13-Apr-2008
This past week's announcement that Yahoo! purchased IndexTools puts a new spotlight on the web analytics marketplace. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Apr-2008
Blink and you might have missed it, but Symantec signed an important OEM deal with Autonomy the other day ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 11-Apr-2008
There's nothing like promising a Playboy centerfold to drive people (well, men mostly) to an upcoming technology conference ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 8-Apr-2008
In recent news from the SAP Community Network, wiki functionality will soon get included in the SAP NetWeaver Portal offering ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 6-Apr-2008
Since moving to the US in 2002 I have become a fan of The Atlantic magazine, and in particular the last page of each edition that contains the "Word Fugitives" column ... 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 Janus Boye on 4-Apr-2008
In early March BEA announced the release of WebLogic Portal 10.2. The release was a bit delayed ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 4-Apr-2008
The world does seem to love an XML fight. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Apr-2008
One topic that keeps coming up in conversations with buyers of content technologies -- and of course those that sell content technologies -- is the topic of a looming recession ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 1-Apr-2008
During the first SharePoint conference of the MOSS era, Microsoft suggested that they were considering deprecating Exchange public folders in lieu of using SharePoint. As Exchange 2007 neared RTM (release to manufacturing - "production"), it became very clear that Exchange without public folders was not going to happen right away ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 1-Apr-2008
Great theater. Awesome Indian food. Hyde Park in springtime ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Apr-2008
A couple recent news items find SAP and IBM both in a bit of legal hot water ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 31-Mar-2008
So HP finally made a move into the world of ECM by acquiring Tower Software of Australia ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 31-Mar-2008
I received an e-mail this weekend from a very confused researcher of Web Content Management systems. The first result they found in their search results was this paid advertisement from Clickability... ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 27-Mar-2008
I'm very excited to announce the release of our latest evaluation report. This time, instead of covering a particular technology space, we take a hard look at a product that in many ways defies categorization: Microsoft SharePoint ... 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 Theresa Regli on 25-Mar-2008
At the AIIM Expo in Boston and Documation Paris earlier this month, I met with several enterprise search vendors, old and new. There's a growing movement afoot to de-throne the old guard ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Mar-2008
I'll be running a two-day intensive ECM workshop in Rome this April, geared for the needs of project implementation and selection teams -- as well as the business managers who oversee information management initiatives. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 22-Mar-2008
The JBoss folks have launched an ambitious new open-source project that is so breathtaking in scope, it defies easy categorization, even though (ironically) it is largely about categorization. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 21-Mar-2008
My colleagues Tony Byrne and Adriaan Bloem recently wrote up a summary of pros and cons, as well as offered sound advice, regarding the Google Search Appliance ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 21-Mar-2008
In news from last month's JBoss World conference, JBoss Portal will as of Version 2.7, due out in Q3 2008, use a new portlet container that supports the Portlet 2.0 specification (JSR 286) ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 21-Mar-2008
"Who's number 1?" It's question people ask a lot in many domains, but especially software ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Mar-2008
CM Pros organized an event on the topic of enterprise search last week, with two case-study presentations and a fair bit of discussion among attendees. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 17-Mar-2008
In the latest shuffle in enterprise search, SAS, known for business intelligence and analytics software, has announced today it acquired Teragram, natural language processing specialists ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 14-Mar-2008
Marketplaces change, and therefore, we change our product coverage with them. The Web CMS marketplace is particularly dynamic; some products seem to plateau, while others advance quickly. ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 14-Mar-2008
There's a lot more to web analytics than simply running software. So please join me at a special full day web analytics workshop ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 13-Mar-2008
Much like "le brunch" has infiltrated the Paris restaurant scene, Anglophone phrases like le CRM, l'ERP and l'ECM were omnipresent at Documation Paris this week. So were vendors at the conference podium ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 13-Mar-2008
It seems to me IDC may have missed (or at least skimmed over) some important conclusions in its newly released 2008 update of last year's widely cited The Expanding Digital Universe ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Mar-2008
A Serena Collage customers' mailing lit up this morning with news that the software vendor (who focuses mostly on configuration management and mash-up tools) was going to discontinue development of its (somewhat hidden) Web CMS tool. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 12-Mar-2008
Conference events and tracks are getting nichey-er and more specific, and rightly so, as every year the knowledge we accumulate about content technology gets deeper and more nuanced, which begs more specific presentations and probing questions from implementers ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Mar-2008
The fragmentation of the global Web Content Management technology space continues unabated, although we see significant regional differences. In Europe ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 10-Mar-2008
Microsoft held their second SharePoint Conference in Seattle last week. By all accounts the turnout was well beyond ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 7-Mar-2008
Web CMS vendor SDL Tridion has opened a new office in Germany, almost eight years to the date after their first attempt ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 6-Mar-2008
Or even if just a part of your Intranet is awesome, check out StepTwo's annual innovation award program ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 6-Mar-2008
Everybody loves a party, and Web Analytics vendor Omniture is no exception ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Mar-2008
Herewith some random thoughts on the first half of the 3-day AIIM Conference & Expo in Boston, MA, USA ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Mar-2008
Many different tools -- and scores of vendors -- fall under the rubric of "content technologies." Can they be organized on a single page? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 4-Mar-2008
Today we released the latest update to our Web CMS Report 2008, which evaluates 40 vendors across 2 editions ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 3-Mar-2008
Though we are not psychiatrists, as technology evaluators covering various content technologies, we spend many hours listening to some sad stories of software implementations gone wrong... ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 29-Feb-2008
This coming Wednesday at the big AIIM Expo in Boston we are hosting a session called "Fix your ECM problem." It's a bit of "serious" fun ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Feb-2008
So Google has launched a product to compete with Microsoft's SharePoint, called Google Sites ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 27-Feb-2008
While Microsoft continues to push SharePoint 2007 as the answer to nearly all information management problems, it seems that not all local Microsoft offices and the partners have the same inflated expectations ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 25-Feb-2008
Today's e-mail brought in a news release from Coremetrics' announcing Coremetrics Connect. ... 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 Tony Byrne on 24-Feb-2008
In our Web CMS Report, we call out MOSS 2007 for having "perhaps the highest fee structure in its class," ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 21-Feb-2008
A colleague whose company recently went through a Web CMS selection process just received an e-mail from one of the vendors who lost out in the competition ... 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 Theresa Regli on 19-Feb-2008
As my scrupulous colleague Adriaan Bloem pointed out last month about Google, sometimes vendors and their marketing evolve more quickly than products themselves ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 19-Feb-2008
Microsoft is attempting what may amount to a brilliant and daring preemptive strike against Adobe, Linux, Java, and open source, all in one, with its DreamSpark program. ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 19-Feb-2008
jboye08, the annual international web conference in November in Aarhus, Denmark has begun accepting speaker proposals ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 17-Feb-2008
If your vendor is a public company, listening to the quarterly earnings calls are a great way to get some insight into what to expect from the vendor in the short and long term ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 17-Feb-2008
Kevin Kelly recently wrote a superb commentary on what adds value to digital content, called "Better Than Free." Free content is everywhere, so what compels, and will compel, people to pay for it? ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 15-Feb-2008
Funny how time flies. It doesn't seem like 18 months have passed since we blogged about Day Software's slipping development schedule ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 14-Feb-2008
Today we release an update and a new edition of our Enterprise Search Report 2008.... ... 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 Kas Thomas on 12-Feb-2008
According to the latest Report on Information Technology Spending for the Federal Government, the U.S. Treasury Department is requesting $28.2 million to spend on Enterprise Content Management systems in Fiscal Year 2009, up from ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Feb-2008
Today we released a research summary arguing that Enterprise Content Management (ECM) products are ill-equipped to meet the security requirements of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) ... Continue Reading
Added By Ann Rockley on 11-Feb-2008
Today comes news that SDL is acquiring Idiom, Inc. for US$21.7 million ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 11-Feb-2008
Last week I wrote a commentary on whether the future of Plone lies in web publishing. This was based on a candid blog posting by Plone co-founder Alexander Limi, where he said that the community should "realize that web publishing isn't our main area." ... 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 6-Feb-2008
More quiet than the news of Microsoft's acquisition of FAST Search & Transfer was the recent announcement that enterprise search vendor Endeca has received $15 million in funding from the venture arms of Intel and SAP ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Feb-2008
Yesterday, security analysis firm CYBSEC S.A. released an advisory describing a vulnerability in Documentum 5.3 that, if uncorrected, would "allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the server filesystem." ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 5-Feb-2008
On the heels of Clickability's announcement yesterday that it has received a second round of VC funding, the other pure-play SaaS vendor we cover in the 2008 Web Content Management Report, CrownPeak, is making some news of its own. Today the company announced a new product... ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 4-Feb-2008
In a candid blog posting, project co-founder Alexander Limi lists 18 things he "wishes were true" about the open source Portal / CMS platform, Plone ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 4-Feb-2008
In a recent article and blog entry, my colleague Tony talked about both the popularity of Software as a Service or hosted model and some of the potential dangers. In our 2008 Web Content Management Report we cover two pure-play SaaS vendors, Clickability and CrownPeak. Both are venture-backed, both have shown consistent growth recently, and today Clickability announced that it has received a second round of funding of $8 million, bringing its total outside funding to $15.3 million. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 1-Feb-2008
Wall Street Journal columnist Lee Gomes wrote an interesting piece about industry analyst firm The Aberdeen Group ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 1-Feb-2008
Analytics vendor WebTrends announced a host of additions to their new management team on Wednesday ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Jan-2008
On the heels of my article about the difference between "managed services" using traditional software vs. native SaaS offerings, I got a message from a friend whose company may be in a bit of a jam ... 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 29-Jan-2008
My thanks to our friend James Robertson for pointing to an important UK study that debunks many of the "Web 2.0" and "Google Generation" myths that ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Jan-2008
Let's peek back into ECM/WCM vendor Vignette following last week's speculation about the company's financials ... 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 Ann Rockley on 24-Jan-2008
Translation and Content Management vendor SDL has taken a minority stake in privately held Trisoft N.V. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 24-Jan-2008
Despite what eager (often junior) developers may tell you, snappy website performance is hard to achieve when you're serving complex, dynamic content ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 24-Jan-2008
Omniture completed its acquisition of Visual Sciences last week. So where does that leave HBX customers? ... 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 Tony Byrne on 22-Jan-2008
We're looking for a full-time technology/industry analyst to join our growing team ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 21-Jan-2008
Against the backdrop of the Sun and Oracle acquisition announcements of last week, it's easy to miss the fact that Vignette stock enjoyed a surprising spike ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 20-Jan-2008
We'd like to welcome Barbara Feldman, our new Customer Relationship Manager, who joined us on January 2nd ... Continue Reading
Added By Ann Rockley on 18-Jan-2008
SiberLogic recently announced a SaaS version of their component content management system ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 17-Jan-2008
With every vendor acquisition, and the uncertainty this brings for existing customers, I see self-perceived competitors step in with cut-rate offers to "upgrade" to their technology. But I was still surprised to see Google ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 17-Jan-2008
A couple of months after the initial attempt by Oracle to acquire BEA, the two companies yesterday entered into a definitive agreement under which ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 16-Jan-2008
As a web analytics customer, the key issue is not so much that vendors have been acquiring other vendors. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Jan-2008
Blink and you would have missed it -- for lost in the all the headlines of ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Jan-2008
Our partner Erik Hartman's firm will be delivering IOA and BPM certificate training in Belgium and the Netherlands this year ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 15-Jan-2008
Today we released the 2008 Web Analytics Report, evaluating 15 web analytics products. While you may have heard of ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-Jan-2008
I have recently become addicted to a TV program called Clean House, where they find people whose homes are a chaotic mess -- with junk and trash accumulating to the rafters ... Continue Reading
Added By Janus Boye on 10-Jan-2008
In an interesting and detailed blog posting, Singapore-based consultant Paul Gallagher shared his problematic experiences backing up the Oracle WebCenter (OWC) wiki ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 9-Jan-2008
Respected IT site (formerly magazine) InfoWorld recently packaged up many of its more positive product reviews from 2007 into a "2008 Technology of the Year" awards compilation. The reviews of some of the vendors we cover made me pause a bit. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Jan-2008
Of course, with last year's upheaval at Fast Search & Transfer, there has been speculation of the company being acquired. And most were quick to agree that Microsoft would be a likely buyer ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Jan-2008
So EMC (read: Documentum) acquired Document Sciences. The announcement came over the holiday period, and has already been ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Jan-2008
So the new year begins, and the first thing on my agenda is to run through my calendar for the year; 2008 brings a lot of potentially great events worldwide for ECM ... Continue Reading
Added By Phil Kemelor on 4-Jan-2008
Thinking back on 2007, I think you'd agree that most of the excitement in web analytics had more to do with company churn, than features that made it easier for you to manage or practice analytics. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Jan-2008
Some people prefer the open source, PHP-based Joomla! Web CMS because it is relatively simple to install and run. But just as complexity can bring unexpected problems, so too can simplicity ... Continue Reading
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