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Added By Theresa Regli on 7-Feb-2012
This week we publish an Advisory Paper for our Digital & Media Asset Management research subscribers about key considerations when selecting a Content Delivery Network or an Online Video Platform. ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-Feb-2012
Last week open source document management vendor Alfresco released Version 4 of its (commercially-supported) enterprise edition package. As we've come to expect from Alfresco, it's long on buzzwords and interesting new directions, but a bit short on functional niceties and architectural continuity ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 6-Feb-2012
I enjoyed an excellent day in Oxford last week speaking (and listening to the other speakers) at a CMS Expert Group round table event. Many topics of interest emerged, but the one that underlay several discussions -- and is also close to my heart -- was, "When is a Web Content Management project not a Web Content Management project?" ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 6-Feb-2012
Last week, IBM acquired erstwhile partner Worklight, an Israel-based vendor.
Worklight is a platform for developing mobile applications that enables you to build ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 2-Feb-2012
It is an understatement to say that Sharepoint has become a nearly ubiquitous platform for workplace collaboration. Yet, as our technology evaluation subscribers know, Sharepoint may be omnipresent but definitely not omnipotent. An enterprise cannot just survive on Sharepoint for all its unstructured content needs, since there are significant functionality gaps in the Sharepoint armor ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 31-Jan-2012
You already know that marketing is evolving and becoming increasingly digitally focused. That means today's marketers must become much more proficient across various marketing technologies to be fully effective. But what should a marketer's technology toolkit contain? ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Jan-2012
We've just updated our longstanding "subway map" for 2012.
Biggest changes have come around acquisitions (e.g., HP), and ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 30-Jan-2012
This week, the Joomla! community released version 2.5 of its open source CMS package. There are many new features but the key highlights of the new release are ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 26-Jan-2012
Today we release an update to our Digital & Media Asset Management Report. In addition to insights on DAM Trends for 2012, we now have an in-depth 12-page evaluation of Avid's Interplay MAM, and a first look at MerlinOne. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Jan-2012
We've just released an advisory paper, "Are cloud-based file-sharing services too immature for the enterprise?” ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 25-Jan-2012
Jive Software has long been the darling of the Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software space. Yes, they have decent (though not spectacular) technology, but the company has always been savvier about "message." Jive talked social networking as an alternative to SharePoint 2007 when that was hot, then pivoted to more of a collaboration message as customers got more serious, then joined the cloud/API/ecosystem bandwagons at the right time, and so on ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 24-Jan-2012
Today we publish our 2012 Digital & Media Asset Management Market Overview. Things are markedly more exciting in the DAM & MAM world as we start 2012, versus the relatively calmer 2011. Product development has picked up, in particular among mid-size and large DAM vendors, as they attempt to beef up their feature offerings to cover more of the digital & media management spectrum ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 23-Jan-2012
MediaBeacon is one of the bright and blinking stars of the Digital Asset Management world. Led by the ebullient and opinionated Jason Bright, the Minneapolis-based company has a much larger footprint on the market than the small size of the company would suggest. MediaBeacon's DAM tool is among the industry's more flexible and standards-based, and though largely focused on brand management scenarios, the company made extensive efforts to add video management features over the last 18 months ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Jan-2012
There is of course much interest these days in both the cloud and more general usage of hosted/off-premise environments for managing electronic documents. Indeed it's an area that we have been receiving many more inquiries from our advisory service customers over this past year. Yet despite the interest, one area I find few buyers investigate thoroughly enough is that of file encryption ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Jan-2012
We've just released a major update (Version 4.0) to our Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Report, which evaluates nineteen Enterprise 2.0 vendors. Our subscribers will see several new vendors under review as well as an overhauled set of evaluation criteria ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 20-Jan-2012
We recently attended the Click Asia Summit in Mumbai, a gathering for digital and social media marketers in the region. Here are the mantras and maxims, tidbits and trivia from the event ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Jan-2012
We have recently published our Document Management - ECM Market Analysis for 2012, and as a where-is-the-marketplace-headed snapshot, I think it's an interesting one. I have been writing these since the late 1990s and it's one of several analyst tasks that I really look forward to ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Jan-2012
In the enterprise search community there has been a lot of talk recently about the lack of deep coverage by major analyst firms such as Gartner and Forrester. Many feel slighted and believe that their industry is a large and thriving one, one that is unjustly ignored ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Jan-2012
Not surprisingly, most architects have taken an intense interest in cloud-based computing, across both its public and private (and hybrid) incarnations. These same architects typically also participate in software selection decisions. Then here's what happens: architects immersed in planning cloud-based futures often get surprised to discover how poorly traditional software vendors fit into that world ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 23-Dec-2011
Social software vendor Jive Software recently announced a new module called Fathom for Social Media Monitoring. Fathom comes as a free add-on to an existing Jive 5 setup. It provides basic capabilities for monitoring content across Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, blogs and other sources. Fathom Pro, a paid upgrade to the free version, adds some advanced analytics and intelligence capabilities to the free module ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 20-Dec-2011
There is usually a common theme that drives M&A in the technology sector and this season it is the "cloud." For example, in the last couple of months Oracle bought RightNow (cloud-based customer service) and IBM acquired DemandTec (cloud-based retail analytics). The trend seems to be spreading to the social software space as well ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 14-Dec-2011
Because I completed my university degree and started working full-time at the age of 20 (I wanted nothing more than to finish school and be out in the "real world"), I am not particularly impressed by copious degrees, professional certifications, or letters after a person's name ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-Dec-2011
At such time you decide you need a mobile presence for your corporate website or for an enterprise application, you'll face some key decision points, the outcome of which will define how you execute on a mobile strategy ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 13-Dec-2011
A recent conversation with a large global enterprise about their Digital Asset Management project reminded me of the Zen Kōan – "Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand clapping?" The project in question has weathered some turbulence ... Continue Reading
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