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Added By Kashyap Kompella on 24-May-2012
As content technology analysts, we very often are asked about digital rights management by customers who are undertaking Digital Asset Management projects. Specifically, they want to know more about the depth of the DRM functionality available in DAM software products in the marketplace and whether/when they need specialist DRM solutions to meet their requirements ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 17-May-2012
Have you tried accessing a web site from your mobile device and felt disappointed? I get that feeling often and wonder what it takes for site owners to think of "mobile first"?
One of the fastest ways to mobilize your existing websites is to license ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-May-2012
I had lunch the other day with a couple of acquaintances who work at a systems integrator (SI) that does a lot of work for the federal government (a.k.a., "beltway bandit").
They pointed out that, like SharePoint of yore, Drupal was all the rage among US federal web managers under this current administration. So naturally this SI went looking for experienced Drupal talent. And could not find any ... Continue Reading
Added By Irina Guseva on 15-May-2012
We've released a major update to our Web Content and Experience Management (WCXM) Evaluations, which review 35 major CMS products from around the globe.
First and foremost, you will notice the name change: ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-May-2012
I'm excited and proud to announce the new Digital Asset Management Maturity Model (DAM3). Its a collaborative effort between ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 10-May-2012
WARNING: If you're already getting "Big Data" buzzword sickness, look away now, as Lucid Imagination -- the professional open source distributor of the Apache Lucene/Solr search platform -- has announced a beta program for its formal entry into the "Big Data" turf war. It's called, predictably, ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 8-May-2012
Big Data is may be a buzzword, yet it's certainly generating interesting discussions. Over the last month or two, I been party to a number of really interesting sessions - such as the CW500 event I mentioned previously - and with recent acquisitions in this space, the question is becoming less about whether Big Data is possible, and more about how it can be applied in the enterprise.
For me this raises the question of quality ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-May-2012
Last week, Oracle announced a new version 11gR1 of WebCenter Sites. This is the erstwhile FatWire product, “Oracalized” -- a bit -- for the first time since the acquisition last year.
So how far has Oracle progressed? Well, ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 4-May-2012
At NAB, Dalet announced its release plan for Galaxy, which will be the updated version of its core MAM platform, and outlined the features to expect when the package eventually ships. Before you get excited, though, note the timeline: ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 3-May-2012
The esteemed Financial Times is ready to pull the plug on its iOS native apps and instead replace them with an HTML5-based app.
Reportedly, the so called "Apple Tax" -- whereby developers pay 30% of revenues to Apple -- along with lack of access to customer data, are the main reasons prompting FT.com to follow others ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 1-May-2012
I've just written an advisory briefing for our subscribers, "Address Emerging Threats to Website Performance", which reviews some web development trends that are increasingly having a negative effect upon website user experience ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 1-May-2012
Previously, MAM was positioned as “super software” that can completely transform the processes, systems and operations of a media company. Now, Avid is more circumspect. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 30-Apr-2012
Part 1 of this series provided a quick run down of 9 MAM vendors. Here are 8 more ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Apr-2012
The modern digital workplace and public internet is of course increasingly mobile. So for those enterprises with portal-driven experiences, what's the best way to "mobilize"? ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 27-Apr-2012
Media Asset Management is a market that's coming out of hibernation and getting ready for prime time as media companies and broadcasters prepare themselves for a multi-platform world ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 27-Apr-2012
Google finally released its much rumored Google Drive, a new competitor in the increasingly crowded cloud-based file sharing and sync marketplace. As with all things Google, the Drive announcement generated a huge amount of hype across the blogosphere and twitterverse.
Many commentators compare Drive with Dropbox and to some extent Microsoft's SkyDrive and Apple's iCloud. However, there are many, many more choices ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 26-Apr-2012
As they say in the ad world, "Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings." I'm afraid it will be a rough landing for integrated campaigns with many of the DAM products in the market. Currently, many of them ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 25-Apr-2012
Today IBM announced that it was acquiring search vendor Vivisimo for an undisclosed amount, purportedly to boost Big Blue's capabilities in Big Data ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 25-Apr-2012
As you have already heard a gazillion times, converting capital expenditure into operating expense is a key value proposition of cloud computing. Yes, but customers need to understand that cloud vendors have different payment models which can eat into any such potential benefits ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 24-Apr-2012
We have just released a new Advisory Paper, "2012 Portals and Content Integration Market Analysis." This briefing offers a snapshot of trends in the current marketplace, as well as a comparative analysis of the relative risks associated with each portal and content integration vendor ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 24-Apr-2012
Recently, Jive software announced the release of Jive Gamification, an add-on to its enterprise social networking platform. Jive is OEMing the module from a vendor called Bunchball that specializes in gamification software. Jive's version and is an extension of "Nitro," Bunchball's software platform for such things ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 24-Apr-2012
Art helps us to understand the world we live in. We can in fact think of art as metadata about the world (and artists as metadata experts of the human condition). Art is also ahead in showing us the path to the future, and digital art may provide some clues to the future in the content management world ... Continue Reading
Added By Matt Mullen on 23-Apr-2012
As a child I loved Lego. And when I say "as a child", I really mean "I still love Lego, but don't want to admit it". Recently a large new shopping complex opened not far from where I live, bringing with it a new Lego shop. In the centre of the shop are large perspex bins containing all the requisite parts to construct your own, bespoke "minifig" (or as non Lego fans might prefer "Lego people"). There's an hour of my life that I'm not going to get back ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 23-Apr-2012
Many IT projects require some sort of content migration, but we often find that many customers give scant attention to migration planning. It's almost always considered an activity that can wait until the end ... Continue Reading
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