RSG separates the market into three rough categories

It's not a surprising move, but I think for Widen licensees, not a very welcome one.

We've enhanced several existing evaluations as well as added two new vendors.

What to make of this? Here's three quick take-aways.

These vendors reflect a couple of trends within the CDP marketplace as a whole...

Letting a Web Content & Experience Management (WCM) vendor also serve as your general integrator is generally a bad idea.

What if we could do simple "tasting notes" for certain WCM vendors, like wine critics do? What would we say? Quite tongue-in-cheek, here's a sampling

As you might expect the list shows a great diversity in systems deployed, but also suggests some aging platforms. What to make of it?

The past few years have seen the universal decline of big established Enterprise Content Management (ECM) players when it comes to Web Content & Experience Management (WCM). In their place has arisen a new set of alternative vendors offering alluring and feature-rich — yet complex and expensive — WCM offerings.

Our latest update to RSG's Web Content & Experience Management evaluation research includes updates to some key open source projects, including Drupal, Enonic, and Plone

Typically customers want the lastest-and-greatest version, but in this case, you'll want to pause and consider the surprisingly knotty trade-offs

In this webinar, we will examine the future of the web content and experience management marketplace

Understand that as Acquia diversifies, its offerings can become more proprietary and less, well, Drupally

We increasingly see WCM vendors putting pressure on their SI partners to become more like loyal resellers. For WCM, you don't want a reseller. Look for independent services firms that know a small handful of tools really, really well. Then work only with those integrators and consultancies who will sit on your side of the table, rather than just parrot the vendor line

RSG has just released a significant update to our Web Content & Experience Management (WCM) vendor evaluations. That's version 22.5 for those of you keeping track