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Added By Tony Byrne on 29-Dec-2010
There's a great new book that begins with two questions:
And then proceeds to answer them both. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Dec-2010
Just as Microsoft has its own very distinctive approach and definition for ECM, so too does Oracle. In fact as time goes on, Oracle's approach to ECM is becoming more individual and distinctive ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Dec-2010
The longtime document and records management product iManage WorkSite has had a turbulent history: launched in the dot-com boom years, it quickly found an enthusiastic customer base in the Legal sector. Acquired by Interwoven in 2003 it carried on much as before with relatively little interference from the web-centric management at Interwoven. But things change ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 22-Dec-2010
Lassi is a yogurt drink popular in India, but you wouldn't usually employ a washing machine to make it. Unless, of course your requirements are similar to those in this HSBC Ad. We call such differentiating requirements "scenarios." Think of scenarios as ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 21-Dec-2010
I'm excited to wrap up the year by writing a "State of the Market" on DAM. This has been a very busy year for us here -- our DAM subscriber numbers increased substantially and our customer inquiries for personalized help in a DAM procurement were near-constant. Could it be that DAM might finally be hitting the mainstream? ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 21-Dec-2010
Every product and technology solution provider inherently brings some amount of risk. When it comes to technology, change is inevitable and often a good thing, but also potentially a strong indicator of risk for new buyers of technology. For example ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Dec-2010
We have a job opening for a full-time analyst to join our research-and-advisory team. The person can be based in Northern Europe, India, or East Coast USA (preferably Boston or Washington area) ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 20-Dec-2010
When it comes to selecting a content management system, does a vendor's industry-specific experience matter? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Dec-2010
CMS vendors and open source community leaders frequently brag about the growing volume of such add-on modules, but for customers this landscape can be confusing and ultimately quite disappointing. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Dec-2010
Yesterday our friends over at AIIM (Association of Imaging and Information Management) hosted a webinar that presented new work by sales & marketing guru Geoffrey Moore called A Future History of Content Management: "A Social Business Revolution" ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 15-Dec-2010
Of late, many WCM as well as Portal vendors are touting their capabilities for more closely aligning content management and presentation management. Frankly, I wonder what took them so long. After all, what good is content if it cannot be delivered and consumed? In my opinion ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-Dec-2010
When you think of a smart phone or when someone tells you about multi-channel delivery, chances are that you are visualizing a cell phone, a PDA, or at the maximum, a tablet such as an iPad or Samsung's Tab ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 14-Dec-2010
After a decade of doing this, I can assure you that the demos vendors give during canned analyst and media "briefings" and the demos they perform for customers during the sales process are as different as night and day ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Dec-2010
One question I get on a regular basis is, "so, what's the best CMS?" And I invariably reply, "it depends." There really is no best CMS; there is only the best fit for you, in your scenarios ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Dec-2010
We have a new new advisory paper out called "Develop the Right Shortlist with an RFI" that hits on a key gap in many procurement processes. For with most prospective content technology buyers, great effort gets expended on an RFP process at the cost of the RFI. In fact, there often is no RFI. This is a mistake ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Dec-2010
You may be getting pressure to join a particular tool's bandwagon. This year it could be Drupal, Sitecore, Jive, or Liferay. Next year it will certainly be a different set of names. Our industry is nothing if not faddish. When faced with the bandwagon effect, I encourage you to pause and consider all the angles ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 8-Dec-2010
We always follow the communities around specific products quite closely. Whether an open source or commercial closed source system, product communities can give us great input on the real story. But one thing to remember is that the most active and enthusiastic communities are also a really biased source of information ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 7-Dec-2010
When it comes to selecting a content management system, the most "important" stakeholders are not the people at the top of the org charts or the ones with the biggest checkbooks. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 6-Dec-2010
Offshoring, along with its many variants like rightshoring and nearshoring is a heavily debated topic. But like everything else, there are advantages as well as challenges that need to be addressed if you have to make it successful. ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 6-Dec-2010
One question I got over and over again from folks learning about us for the first time was, "where do you get all of the information about the vendors and products that makes it into your research reports and advisory papers?" ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 1-Dec-2010
As we approach the end of 2010, it's time for our team of Real Story Group analysts to reveal our 2011 predictions, where we make our best guesses as to what the Content Technology industry will hold for you in the new year ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 30-Nov-2010
At the risk of being labeled a Grinch during this holiday season, I feel the need to inject a dose of reality into a conversation that I see gathering steam ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Nov-2010
Swedish WCM vendor EPiServer was acquired a few weeks ago -- and I've been trying to come up with something meaningful to say about it ever since ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 29-Nov-2010
Most recently, Wired Magazine managed to reach the zenith with the article "The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet." Even though that's been discussed to death on the web (dead itself), allow me to spoof their title one last time. Just to make an entirely different point: whereas the mobile web is alive and kicking -- it's becoming nearly impossible to create mobile apps. ... Continue Reading
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