Do mid-sized companies and departments want integrated content management and business processing?

The agglomeration of ECM vendors proceeds apace as stock-flush Web content management solutions providers continue to buy related technologies.

With its just-announced purchase of mid-sized collaboration vendor Intraspect, Vignette pushes back into the enterprise -- and mimics several competitors -- after a couple of years of emphasizing external portals and customer-focused interaction modules.

By Version 5.x, Interwoven's TeamSite family of CMS products faced 2 main challenges: a plethora of confusing user interfaces, and a developer-unfriendly customization environment.

Interwoven is scheduling Launch Events around the world this July for the release of version 6 of their CMS.

Rumors abound that cash-strapped MediaBin is about to be purchased by a U.S. company.

It's tax day today in the USA. And this year, US citizens will contribute about two-tenths of a cent each to purchase a comprehensive set of Vignette tools and services to support a novel experiment.

After officially finalizing its acquisition of Epicentric, Vignette is now pushing an entry-level CMS-Portal combo for 125,000 dollars US.

As faithful CMS Report readers know, many web content management products follow a loosely-coupled or completely decoupled management/delivery architecture, while others bundle content management and delivery tightly within one package.

If you develop software, and your company lives long enough, you can sometimes win patents for your innovations.

In the past year, product vendors across the ECM spectrum -- from portals to document management to web content management -- have picked up on the demand for collaborative tools.

RedDot and Microsoft frequently go head-to-head in competitions for Windows-based web CMS packages in the mid-market price/feature range.

CMS packages are complicated. It's difficult to select the right one through proposals and demos alone.

Vignette's recent acquisition of Epicentric reminds us that several major CMS vendors still have reasonably healthy balance sheets, despite sickly and ever-declining income statements.

With its new V7 Vignette tries to attack two areas where it had fallen behind some of the field: business-user functionality and content integration.