CMS Watch Trends and FeaturesIndependent analysis and evaluations of Content Management, Enterprise Portals, and Enterprise Search products and practicesMore ECM acquisitions for Oracle- June 23, 2008 Oracle keeps moving down ECM trail with two new acquisitions to add to their growing portfolio. Both Skywire and AdminServer are specialist vendors who have developed niche offerings for the Insurance and general Financial Services sectors. Oracle have already seen some success in Insurance, but the acquired technology -- and just as importantly the domain expertise -- gives Oracle a bit more heft against EMC and IBM. Of the two acquisitions, the Skywire one is the more.http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1280-More-ECM-acquisitions-for-Oracle?source=RSS The value of archiving and the limitations of e-discovery- June 19, 2008 Today we read about yet another major financial scandal allegedly exposed through the discovery of an e-mail message from a fund principal that apparently stated that their fund was going to be"'toast." The first thing I thought about this was that (if true) it was a fantastically stupid communication to put in an e-mail exchange. Secondly, I wondered why it took so long to find this mail -- surely such high-profile financial managers would have their mail exchanges..http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1279-The-value-of-archiving-and-the-limitations-of-e-discov... Web CMS Thoughts from Gilbane Day One- June 19, 2008 After participating in the first day of the Gilbane San Francisco conference yesterday, here some short observations in no particular order. By my count, once-little Ektron has seen four years of hyper-growth. The company says they now have 200 employees. If accurate, I'll guess this head-count puts them at about US$30-40m in revenues, which sizes Ektron in the ball-park of some of the larger standalone Web CMS vendors (like FatWire, or Tridion before the.http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1278-Web-CMS-Thoughts-from-Gilbane-Day-One?source=RSS Web CMS versus Social Software- June 18, 2008 People frequently ask me about where their Web Publishing efforts should end and Social Software begin. Like so many things, the answer is, "it depends." For example, one important question is whether you are talking about intranets versus a public site, which will likely exhibit very different interaction and security models. I can certainly understand the confusion. Our recent research on Web CMS and Enterprise Social Software suggests a definite overlap from a...http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1277-Web-CMS-versus-Social-Software?source=RSS Adobe and Alfresco- June 17, 2008 It's been a while since there was a big product announcement in the ECM world, but today's announcement by Adobe that they will be embedding Alfresco into their LiveCycle Enterprise Suite will doubtless garner a few headlines. Alfresco, the UK-based open source ECM company, has certainly done a great job of marketing themselves since their launch a couple of years back, stealing some limelight from more established and much bigger vendors such as Interwoven, Vignette,...http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1276-Adobe-and-Alfresco?source=RSS Is SharePoint the end of (portal) history- June 16, 2008 In one of my university political science classes, we had to read and review a now famous essay by Francis Fukuyama titled "The End of History" In the essay, Fukuyama argued that the apparent victory of modern liberal democracy over totalitarianism in the aftermath of the Cold War effectively marked the end of the ideological evolution of forms of government. As I speak with more and more clients, I'm struck by the parallel between the essay's main argument and...http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1275-Is-SharePoint-the-end-of-(portal)-history?source=RSS |