Recent Real Story Group Blog Entries

Bell Begins to Toll for Interwoven?

While falling cash reserves at Vignette and (especially) Broadvision have understandably raised alarms among investors and customers alike, Interwoven's performance has eroded rather quietly over successive quarters as well.

Plumtree backfills CMS

It's an old story now: a portal without content management is like a house on a very loose foundation.

Borland Buys Starbase

Ailing SCM vendor and erstwhile CMS supplier Starbase found a savior in Borland this week.

MS CMS2002: Not Your Father's nCompass

With the long-awaited release of CMS2002, Microsoft has finally coverted the product from the relatively straightforward nCompass architecture to .NET -- in a very big way.

The Siren Song of Structure

Content reusability and multichannel distribution represent music to the ears of any Web publisher.

Is eGovernment All Local?

The late U.S. congressperson Tip O'Neill famously observed that all politics are local. Is the same true for eGovernment CMS initiatives right now?

Packaged Software Blues

Perhaps you're not surprised to learn that in the race to match competitors' features, ISVs are consistently producing buggy software.

Documentum Partners for Content Annotation

One of Interwoven's slicker differentiators is the cool annotation tool it bundles with TeamSite, offering the ability for reviewers to post stickies that travel with content through the workflow.

Whither IBM?

IBM's recent announcement that it was finally integrating it's Content Manager application (an established collection of mostly DM and imaging tools) with its WebSphere portal offering prompted some observers to claim that Big Blue was finally staking a claim in the Web Content Management space.

Xerox Copies Stellent

After pulling the plug on its CMS step-company, Astoria, Xerox has put renewed energy into its DM capabilities, which now rival those of Stellent (the former Web DM upstart), at least in breadth.