In the early days of Web Content Management, many customers tried to employ the same technology -- and often the same physical infrastructure -- for publishing both their intranet and public websites.

During most of the past decade, the trend has been to separate these efforts and to employ different CMS technologies for these two environments. However, we've recently seen an uptick in subscriber inquiries revisiting this issue. The extraordinary propagation of SharePoint within intranet environments, combined with the growing adoption of lighter-weight WCM tools for public websites (including SaaS and open source) is prompting some enterprises to consider consolidating on a single vendor.

Last week we published an advisory briefing that lays out the pros and (mostly) cons of such consolidation, to help you make the best decision.