Last week we released a significant update to our comparative Web Content Management vendor reviews. There's a lot to conclude here about what's going on in the marketplace, but for now, I'll just summarize some of the new info from our revised evaluations

Those of you under the impression that Web Engagement Management (WEM) and Customer Experience Management (CEM) are mere buzzwords may want to pause and observe. I am not saying that I am in favor of creating more acronyms

I've been getting a lot of emails and LinkedIn inmails lately with words “Day CQ” and “CQ5” confettied all over them. Logical conclusion: implementation skills for (now) Adobe's CQ5 Web CMS are in growing demand

It’s been only a little over year since EMC admitted its ineptitude in the realm of Web Content Management, and graciously invited FatWire to share the stage and play the role of a lovey-dovey partner. Today, another WCM vendor joined the affair -- SDL with its SDL Tridion Web CMS

If you're an end-user of Adobe's Creative Suite (CS), which includes such applications at Photoshop and Illustrator, you're likely aware of the furor over the termination of support for Version Cue that coincided with the release of CS version 5 earlier this year

As a digital asset management analyst, one of the most common questions I get is, "Why doesn't Adobe have its own DAM?"

Adobe Systems today announced their intent to acquire Day Software. We've seen Adobe featuring in many Content Management RFPs and although they had some of the necessary pieces including Adobe Contribute and LiveCycle, they were never taken seriously as a Content Management player. An OEM deal with Alfresco a few years back though well intentioned didn't help much but this announcement will surely change the situation dramatically.

So have WCM vendors given up on core content production issues or do they think there's no more scope for innovation there? I can understand this trend to some extent because in many scenarios, content managers may want to manage the consumption experience and not just the production process.

Yesterday we released Version 5 of our Web Analytics evaluation research, with detailed evaluations of 22 vendors

Yesterday we released our "Cross-Check" for Web Analytics vendors, circa mid-2010

Last week we updated several WCM vendor evaluations, including

Developers know that Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) go a long way in improving productivity and shortening time to market. Some vendors in the marketplaces we cover ship with their own proprietary IDEs, while many others use a plugin to (or otherwise extend) the popular Eclipse or Visual Studio IDEs

Does Google Analytics' new availability on apps.gov mean unfettered availability of the free analytics tool for US federal government agencies? A story in SearchEngineWatch might lead you to think so, but key leaders in the Federal web analytics community point out

Performance testing is a notoriously difficult undertaking. So much so, in fact, that it is sometimes not done at all, or only done when a performance problem arises in production, making some sort of investigation unavoidable

The search technology marketplace is getting much more specialized, with important implications for you the customer. There are at least two different ways that software can specialize: Functionally and Vertically