CMS Watch Trends and FeaturesIndependent analysis and evaluations of Content Management, Enterprise Portals, and Enterprise Search products and practicesEnterprise Social Software Evaluations available for download- June 28, 2008 The Enterprise Social Software Report 2008: Networking & Collaboration Within and Beyond the Enterprise has now been officially published and is available for download. The report evaluates 20 Social Software vendors against eleven common scenarios, with 250 product screenshots across 450 pages. If you are a previous CMS Watch customer, check your in-box for a message offering a discount on this new report. Contact us with any questions or feedback.http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1290-Enterprise-Social-Software-Evaluations-available-for-d... ECM buying tips from the experts- June 27, 2008 This past week I had the pleasure of keynoting at the DocTrain event in Indianapolis (held at the truly magnificent Union Station venue), and also running a small session on "How to procure Content Technologies." I have been running these small sessions for a long while now and they tend to prove very popular, and though I have been doing this for years, there are always new tricks to be added to the bag. At the end of this particular session I chatted with the head of..http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1289-ECM-buying-tips-from-the-experts?source=RSS Legal ruling shakes up E-mail Archiving and Management Sector- June 27, 2008 The whole issue of (E-mail Archiving and Management) EAM has come under the spotlight recently - triggered by a ruling by the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco - a ruling that touches on the Fourth Amendment "Protection from unreasonable search and seizure." In this particular case, plaintiffs argued that when employers read the content of text messages sent by their employees, text messages that were held by a hosted vendor (Arch Wireless), ...http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1287-Legal-ruling-shakes-up-E-mail-Archiving-and-Management... Fortiva acquired by Proofpoint - tread with caution- June 27, 2008 Fortiva, the Canadian SaaS vendor has been acquired by Proofpoint. It's an interesting move for a couple of reasons. First and foremost the acquisition itself offers further evidence of a white hot market emerging. In the past year we have Dell, HP, Google, and Oracle all making bold moves into the space. But in this regard the acquisition by Proofpoint is a little unusual. Proofpoint, an e-mail security firm, is not a particularly large vendor; indeed it's quite small...http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1288-Fortiva-acquired-by-Proofpoint---tread-with-caution?so... Best bets: a worst practice- June 27, 2008 As one of the authors of our Enterprise Search Report 2008, I've been spending a lot of time lately looking at search technology and talking to folks who care deeply about the subject (i.e., vendors and their customers).One thing everyone seems to agree on is that providing relevant results to the user is a very hard problem indeed. People don't want to enter a few keywords and then get 10,000 hits on documents that contain those keywords, 9,999 of which might be irrelevant. They want pointers..http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1286-Best-bets:-a-worst-practice?source=RSS DAM vendors coming up short- June 25, 2008 As the Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Symposium kicks off in London, we comment in today's press release on a few areas where DAM vendors are coming up short, based on our recent research for The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008. In our interviews with customers, many lamented their investments in DAM systems failed to meet their needs for workflow and rights management. My fellow analyst Kas Thomas and I were often surprised to find that what many vendors call a...http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1285-DAM-vendors-coming-up-short?source=RSS JSR 286: The last portlet standard- June 24, 2008 The final release of the updated portlet specification, JSR 286, which came out earlier this month, marked the end of a long process for the important (Java) portal standard. As a follow-up to the widely-adopted JSR 168, this portlet specification 2.0 moves to make portals more like integrated apps and less like collections of disconnected windows. Specifically it adds support for events, public render parameters, resource serving, and a portlet filter. Some vendors like eXo, ..http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1284-JSR-286:-The-last-portlet-standard?source=RSS Migrating from HBX to Omniture- June 24, 2008 Web Analytics Report readers know that one of the biggest issues about Omniture SiteCatalyst is the complexity of the implementation. Former HBX customers (now part of the Omniture stable) are finding that SiteCatalyst is a significantly different tool because of the amount of customizations required. Migration becomes a double-edges sword: you can get more functionality, but you have to work harder at it, and you may lose out on some of the things you liked about HBX, such as tagless...http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1283-Migrating-from-HBX-to-Omniture?source=RSS Oracle's new plan to save you money- June 23, 2008 There's something vaguely Orwellian, at times, about the language that turns up in quarterly and annual reports (the kind U.S. public corporations are required to file with the Security and Exchange Commission). Remember the classic slogans from Orwell's 1984 War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Perhaps we should now add, "Higher prices mean lower cost of ownership." I'm reading a well-known software company's quarterly report dated April 1, 2008,...http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1282-Oracle's-new-plan-to-save-you-money?source=RSS A Tale of Two Days at Web Content 2008- June 23, 2008 Here are some wrap-up thoughts from a couple of days at the Web Content 2008 conference in Chicago last week. I thought there was a fascinating dichotomy between days 1 and 2 of the conference (at least in the sessions that I attended.) I'm not sure if the conference organizers intentionally positioned the talks like this, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Day 1 was a crash course in Web 2.0 offerings, with speakers exciting the sold-out crowd by talking about releasing control of..http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1281-A-Tale-of-Two-Days-at-Web-Content-2008?source=RSS |