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Updated Web Content Management ratings charts

20-Nov-2009 | By Tony Byrne | All CMS Trends

e've recently updated how we evaluate the nuts and bolts of the forty-one Web CMS vendors we cover in our Web Content Management research. Specifically, we've expanded and re-organized our ratings categories ... Read more

Stop Blaming IT

19-Nov-2009 | By Tony Byrne | All Social Trends

At the Interop conference yesterday I heard a familiar refrain: "IT is the problem." The epithet was issued by a cloud computing guru, but you could replace "cloud computing" with nearly any emerging technology and hear the same thing. Enterprise IT just doesn't adopt new technologies as fast as many consultants and analysts would wish ... Read more

RFI as rich asset

17-Nov-2009 | By Kas Thomas | All CMS Trends

I was talking with one of our Web CMS Report subscribers today, someone who is leading a state government's effort to modernize its WCM system. The question arose as to how to keep vendors from giving softball answers to hardball questions when submitting a Request for Information. I proposed a simple expedient ... Read more

The Death of Taxonomies, revisited

13-Nov-2009 | By Theresa Regli | All ECM Trends

Earlier this year I caused quite a stir when I predicted the death of taxonomies. Taxonomists worldwide told me I was an idiot, nuts, completely delusional. Some were deeply concerned that their jobs were threatened, as if employers would change org charts based on my prediction. Others secretly told me they agreed ... Read more

Is WCM fundamentally broken?

13-Nov-2009 | By Jarrod Gingras | All CMS Trends

Last week I attended the J. Boye Aarhus 2009 conference in Aarhus Denmark. For me, the highlight of the event was the opportunity to kick off the Web Content Management track by serving on a panel with Janus Boye (a.k.a., @janusboye) and LBi's Jon Marks (a.k.a., @mcboof). The theme of this panel was ... Read more

Do you really need in-context content editing?

13-Nov-2009 | By Apoorv Durga | All CMS Trends

Many Web CMS products tout "in-context," wiki-like content editing as an important feature or enhancement. In-context means letting contributors create or edit content from within the context of the site, without actually having to retrieve a content item from the back-end and filling in long forms ... Read more

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