Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Jul-2010
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. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Jul-2010
With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has strongly promoted the platform's upgraded content management capabilities. Now that the hype is died down, and there are production implementations in the field, it's possible to take a harder look ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-Jul-2010
Today we are releasing a fairly substantial update to our ECM evaluation research. Over the past few months we have been looking in detail into product changes across some of the larger and better known ECM suite vendors ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 19-Jul-2010
JackBe, one of the Mashup vendors we cover in our Portals and Content Integration Research, announced version 3.0 of their Mashup product Presto. The new version features enhancements ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 15-Jul-2010
If you're running a SAP NetWeaver Portal -- presumably since you've bought into SAPs infrastructure -- you may have discovered it's not the most ideal of platforms to actually publish content on ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Jul-2010
Yesterday morning I was reading through Oracle's recently updated price list (yes my Monday mornings really are that exciting). I was thinking that I have long valued the fact that I can access simple, clear and open prices from major vendors like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. I might occasionally gasp at the prices listed ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Jul-2010
Many of our enterprise research customers are reporting an interesting trend: fewer responses to their RFPs (a.k.a., "tenders"). Even vendors they had at the top of their lists may decline to bid. This puzzles them ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Jul-2010
There is an outcry in the UK at the moment over the cost of building and maintaining Government websites. The figures released by the government relating to individual department website costs ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Jul-2010
I'll agree with mega-vendor Autonomy on one key point: Search technology is really important. But is it so important that search functionality should dominate your choice in a content management system? ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 7-Jul-2010
While perhaps not the use case that Microsoft envisioned, it's a definite possibility: firms continuing to run their SharePoint 2007 applications and upgrading their desktops to Office 2010 ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 6-Jul-2010
After a long spending spree -- pretty much on anything XML -- SDL has now acquired small Dutch vendor Xopus ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Jun-2010
Although released a couple of weeks back, Red Hat made a formal announcement of the release of their new JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform (EPP 5) on Thursday at the Red Hat summit in Boston. As we have mentioned before, this release is a completely re-architected platform built on GateIn, the portal they jointly developed with eXo. ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 28-Jun-2010
The community commons ECM Maturity Model (www.ECM3.org) progressed to v2.0 last week ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Jun-2010
I'm in the middle of reviewing feedback for a number of ECM product evaluations that I'm presently updating. The upgrade from minor version to minor version (1.7 to 1.8 etc) is usually heralded by loud marketing cries from the suppliers. Closer inspection though tends to reveal fixes and gaps plugged, rather than anything revolutionary ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Jun-2010
Yesterday, we officially released our updated Portal vendor evaluations, but under a new title, ": Portals and Content Integration." ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Jun-2010
In the UK today, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne will announce his emergency budget details. The one thing we know in advance is that this will contain some of the most severe cuts in recent history ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 22-Jun-2010
We've just released an update to our Portals evaluation research. Along with updates to the individual portal vendor evaluations, we have expanded the scope of our research to include a new category of related solutions that enable you to integrate and aggregate content from multiple sources ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Jun-2010
One of the fun aspects of being an analyst is that people ask you to judge things. Though we refrain from categorizing "best" products and vendors, judging actual projects that exemplify good information management practice is always ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Jun-2010
So here we are in London, the last stop on the UK ECM roadshow. London is certainly the biggest and busiest of the four events, with more from the private sector than public sector at this one ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Jun-2010
For IT professionals it is taken as a matter of faith that automation improves efficiency, that making paper based documents and processes electronic is, in and of itself, a default benefit. But experience in the real world paints a more mixed and problematic picture ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Jun-2010
Theme of the day? Difficult to say really, but if I were to choose two it would be the content chaos and archiving ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Jun-2010
IBM announced yesterday that it's acquiring web analytics vendor Coremetrics (dang: just after we last updated our vendor map...) ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Jun-2010
Day 2 of the UK AIIM Roadshow and we are here at the Reebok Stadium Bolton (home of Bolton Wanderers football club). Theme of today amongst the attendees seems to be ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 15-Jun-2010
Here's our latest take on the marketplaces we cover. We still can't fit all the vendors we evaluate, but we're getting closer ... Continue Reading
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