Adriaan Bloem

Social software is still software

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 17-Dec-2009

Quick question. If a conference runs simultaneous tracks on "Enterprise Search," "Document Management," and "Company XYZ's project to replace the intranet with microwikiblogging," which will have the largest audience? ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

How did our 2009 predictions fare?

Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Dec-2009

Yesterday we issued our twelve predictions for 2010. Once again, I'll look back at our 2009 predictions and see how we did ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

2010 Content Technology Predictions

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 15-Dec-2009

With only a few weeks left in 2009, it's time for our team of CMS Watch analysts to reveal our 2010 predictions, where we make our best guesses as to what the Content Technology industry will hold for you in the new year ... Continue Reading

Phil Kemelor

WebTrends 9 - Fall 09 release

Added By Phil Kemelor on 13-Dec-2009

As I was viewing the demo of the latest WebTrends 9 release, I started to experience those familiar conflicted feelings. I liked some of what I was seeing: a further improvement to report presentation, real time alerts for rule-based changes in traffic. But at the same time, I was thinking ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Year-end thoughts on WCM marketplace

Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Dec-2009

As 2009 comes to a close, let's take a quick look back at the Web CMS ("WCM") marketplace. (We'll offer some separate predictions for 2010 early next week.) I think the most important development was actually a non-event: for the thirteenth year in row, the quite fragmented WCM marketplace did not "consolidate" in any meaningful way. And this, I believe, is a good thing for you the customer ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Open Text delays DAM v7 (again)

Added By Theresa Regli on 9-Dec-2009

I was first given a preview of Open Text's new Flash-based DAM user interface over a year ago, in the fall of 2008. The release, at the time, was "imminent"; I even put a preview screen shot of the new version in the 2009 edition of our Digital & Media Asset Management research. Fourteen months later, customers of the product formerly known as Artesia are still waiting for v7.0 ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Time to Tame the Apache Menagerie

Added By Kas Thomas on 8-Dec-2009

Subscribers to our Search and Information Access Research are well aware that we've been increasing our coverage of Apache Lucene lately, in keeping with the phenomenal -- and still growing -- popularity of Apache's well-known open-source search engine ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

2010 Document Management Marketplace Analysis

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 7-Dec-2009

While the ECM mid market is often ignored, we've noticed a recent vibrancy particularly among document management solutions in this tier. We've created a SlideShare presentation ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Keeping Google Appliances past two years

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 7-Dec-2009

Maybe it's because a Google Appliance is an actual, physical machine, and not just an intangible piece of software. But the question that keeps popping up is "can you actually keep it running once the 2-year license runs out?" ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Lotus and SharePoint - a mea culpa and other thoughts

Added By Tony Byrne on 6-Dec-2009

My colleague Adriaan mis-spoke when he said IBM was "slowly phasing out" Domino. IBM is doing no such thing. For that, I apologize. We have corrected the original post ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Three reasons to list CMIS in your Document Management RFP

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Dec-2009

First off let me state boldly and clearly CMIS is an important document management (a.k.a., ECM) standard, the most important standard. But if your world is solely one of HTML and CSS then you can stop reading right here ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

The Difference between SharePoint and Lotus Notes

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 3-Dec-2009

If you're familiar with Lotus Notes/Domino, I'm sure SharePoint, in many ways, feels like a déjà vu. But because we don't cover the Notes client or the Domino server (well, not on its own, though we cover several IBM Lotus products that run on top of Domino), I've never really compared them head-to-head ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Updated Collaboration and Community software evaluation research

Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Dec-2009

This week we updated our collaboration and social computing vendor evaluations. Specifically, we updated the following reviews ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Content Technology Vendor Map - 2010

Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Dec-2009

We've just updated our "Content Technology Vendor Map" for 2010 ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Tridion, Forms, and Interaction

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 1-Dec-2009

A press release was sent to me today with the title "SDL Tridion Puts Online Forms at the Heart of Interaction." Which made me smile, in a nostalgic sort of way ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Day sets up shop in Boston (where tech firms go to be acquired?)

Added By Kas Thomas on 24-Nov-2009

The greater Boston area, no stranger to the Web CMS world (with companies like Percussion, PaperThin, Telerik US, and Refresh Software already based in the area), is about to add yet another content management mainstay to its denizens: Switzerland-based Day Software ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

New Research on the ECM/Document Management Mid-Market

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Nov-2009

Today we release some new ECM research. It focuses (as does much of our broader research) on the so called mid-market. ‘Mid’ is a terribly misleading term ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Coveo Expresso: Free Search, Black, No Sugar

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Nov-2009

Last year I blogged about several free enterprise search solutions, and it looks Coveo is now bringing coffee to the free beer party I described back then. A couple of weeks ago the vendor announced "Expresso," "your free entry to enterprise search." ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Updated Web Content Management ratings charts

Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Nov-2009

We've recently updated how we evaluate the nuts and bolts of the forty-one Web CMS vendors we cover in our Web Content Management research. Specifically, we've expanded and re-organized our ratings categories ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Stop Blaming IT

Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Nov-2009

At the Interop conference yesterday I heard a familiar refrain: "IT is the problem." The epithet was issued by a cloud computing guru, but you could replace "cloud computing" with nearly any emerging technology and hear the same thing. Enterprise IT just doesn't adopt new technologies as fast as many consultants and analysts would wish ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

RFI as rich asset

Added By Kas Thomas on 17-Nov-2009

I was talking with one of our Web CMS Report subscribers today, someone who is leading a state government's effort to modernize its WCM system. The question arose as to how to keep vendors from giving softball answers to hardball questions when submitting a Request for Information. I proposed a simple expedient ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

The Death of Taxonomies, revisited

Added By Theresa Regli on 13-Nov-2009

Earlier this year I caused quite a stir when I predicted the death of taxonomies. Taxonomists worldwide told me I was an idiot, nuts, completely delusional. Some were deeply concerned that their jobs were threatened, as if employers would change org charts based on my prediction. Others secretly told me they agreed ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Is WCM fundamentally broken?

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 13-Nov-2009

Last week I attended the J. Boye Aarhus 2009 conference in Aarhus Denmark. For me, the highlight of the event was the opportunity to kick off the Web Content Management track by serving on a panel with Janus Boye (a.k.a., @janusboye) and LBi's Jon Marks (a.k.a., @mcboof). The theme of this panel was ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Do you really need in-context content editing?

Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-Nov-2009

Many Web CMS products tout "in-context," wiki-like content editing as an important feature or enhancement. In-context means letting contributors create or edit content from within the context of the site, without actually having to retrieve a content item from the back-end and filling in long forms ... Continue Reading

 

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