This week I have been heads down reviewing RFP responses for a large ECM project. These vendor proposals could give readers the misimpression that the products in a complex suite of modules were all designed on the same drawing board

Enterprise Mashups are becoming popular as a way to create new, dashboard style applications from existing, often disparate applications and data sources.

Google bought DocVerse two weeks ago -- but that was hardly a surprise. DocVerse allows people to collaborate on the same Office document via special plug-in. The software syncs

For years now Google has played fast and loose with information confidentiality and privacy issues. As if further proof were needed

Two years ago, Microsoft made a big splash with their announcement that SharePoint, among other tools, was heading for "the cloud."  In 2008, SharePoint Online represented Microsoft’s latest attempt to introduce more Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings to the broader marketplace

Last week we released some significant updates to our Enterprise Portals Research. The latest research reflects significant changes among new versions of several portal platforms, as well as additional details for all the products we cover

Yesterday we launched our most recent Enterprise Portals Research. This report critically evaluates 13 portal vendors and products, which we break up into 2 categories:

Among the various categories of content technologies that we evaluate, Oracle has been very quiet over the past year. For the past two years, actually, Oracle has urged customers and partners to look forward to the "11g" series of upgrades across its various application sets

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

Since the birth of SharePoint, Microsoft has marketed it as an internal collaboration platform, during a period when Intranet managers increasingly see collaboration as a high-priority service. Now, players such as Google and HyperOffice are trying to repeat SharePoint's success, using an on-again, off-again "SharePoint Killer" marketing tactic combined with the idea of creating a kind of Intranet-in-a-box alternative. However

Regular readers of this blog know that Surfray's MondoSearch and Ontolica (search for SharePoint) products have a bit of a checkered past. First vendor MondoSoft went bankrupt; it was then sold to SurfRay; then SurfRay went bankrupt; then it was restructured to SurfRay 2009. But I'm happy to report that the Danish company now seems to be doing a lot better

Today we release an update to our Search & Information Access subscription service. (You can download a free sample here.)

Today we release some new ECM research. It focuses (as does much of our broader research) on the so called mid-market. ‘Mid’ is a terribly misleading term

As subscribers who received our recent advisory paper know, there is plenty to be excited about in SP2010, especially if you are a part of the SharePoint channel of resellers, consultants, developers, and system integrators. But over the past few weeks I have been noticing something of a shadow side to this excitement

I was recently invited to participate in some early testing of Google’s Wave product. As readers know, Wave has been described as a "SharePoint killer." My initial impression of Wave leads me to believe it’s little more than hype