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CMS Watch Talks ECM in Montréal
02-Feb-2005
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CMS Watch will be teaching a half-day
seminar on ECM Technologies in Montréal as part of the 2005 IA Summit.
For the modest sum of US$325 you can join us for a lively tour of Enterprise content Management technologies,
including Document Imaging, BPM and Workflow, Web Content Management, Digital
Asset Management, single-source CM, and several other related disciplines. The goal of the workshop
is to level-set participants' knowledge of these technologies, by describing
for each category: the business purpose; how the tools actually work (i.e. what
the products actually “do”, or are supposed to do); and what differentiates
them from the other categories in the ECM family. The session will include sample
screenshots of the representative products. And when you come, stay for the
full IA Summit; the program looks awfully strong this year...
David to Google's Mini Goliath?
02-Feb-2005
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Longtime search vendor Thunderstone innovated the search appliance approach. But pity the vendor that has to stand up to Google. Today, Thunderstone announced an alternative to Google Mini. Same price, same doc limit, more features, and arguably stronger technology with a deeper history. It is a sad fact of the software business, though, that better technology doesn't always win. Still, we think Thunderstone will stick around...
The Case Against Vendor Bashing
01-Feb-2005
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We can be tough on CMS vendors. And you should set high standards as well. But sometimes user and developer frustration with the current state of technology and the marketplace digresses into paroxysms of vendor bashing, as if most CMS vendor sales reps were unethical (most are actually decent businesspeople), and their developers stupid (most are actually quite talented). Writing in CIO Magazine, the CIO of American Airlines offers some good advice about partnering with your major vendors. We think he goes overboard on a few points, but the overall gist makes sense, in particular his suggestion to clue your suppliers in to your strategic objectives. Put another way: don't buy content management technology like a commodity; look at your CMS vendors as strategic partners, and challenge them to be as good -- albeit as imperfect -- as you are...
CMS Vendor Q4 Financial Roundup
27-Jan-2005
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Major CMS vendors are declaring revenue growth and modest profits. That's good for the industry as a whole, but rising sales in many cases reflects cumulative income from
newly-acquired products. Interwoven eked out a rare profit as did Stellent, who continues to hire more staff. Vignette generated earnings too -- as long as you don't apply generally-accepted accounting practices. We think all these vendors could come under increased pressure in 2005 to realize greater economies from their acquisitions, which means
possible staff or service reductions. Customers should stay on top of product road-maps and measure how well their vendor(s) hit release milestones...
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Web Content Management Marketplace Circa 2005
CMS Watch founder Tony Byrne identifies 6 trends across the Web content management solutions marketplace, taken from the 7th Edition of The CMS Report.
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Portal Software: Passing Fad or Real Value?
Janus Boye returns to CMS Watch to look at the benefits and drawbacks to enterprise portal packages. If you look closely at your requirements, Boye argues, you may find portal software more a hindrance than a help...
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 CMS Implementation Models
What are some common milestones used for a typical large Web CMS implementation?
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Paving the Way for Simpler Document Management
 Enterprise Content Management sounds nice, but organizations that need only simple document management, the WebDAV protocol can come in very handy, writes James Till of Xythos. Read Till's primer on the WebDAV standard...
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Free sample of The CMS Report
The CMS Report looks at...
...ROI Calculators
"ROI calculators from vendors often encourage you to employ
exaggerated values for labor savings, and typically assume that there will be no additional labor involved in implementing, managing, and then using the CMS itself -- a patently false assumption."
(p. 13)
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