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Search fares well in sluggish economy

08-Feb-2010 | By Adriaan Bloem | All Search Trends

At times I get the feeling the content technologies aren't affected by the economic downturn. Some of the vendors we cover have come out with early reports on their performance over 2009, and so far the news is good ... Read more

ROI calculations are a joke

08-Feb-2010 | By Alan Pelz-Sharpe | All DAM Trends

Our colleagues over at Forrester recently undertook some interesting research regarding content management investment attitudes in 2010 (DM, RM and WCM). The overall finding was along the lines one might expect ... Read more

An iPad for DM and RM?

05-Feb-2010 | By Alan Pelz-Sharpe | All ECM Trends

The launch of Apple's iPad last week has caught the imagination of armchair critics worldwide ... Read more

Alterian drops Immediacy

04-Feb-2010 | By Adriaan Bloem | All CMS Trends

Software vendor Alterian has cleared up which Web CMS software it wants to try to sell you in the future. In short, all of their alphabet soups going forward will taste like Morello ... Read more

Non-disclosure is a non-starter

04-Feb-2010 | By Kas Thomas | All DAM Trends

We've mentioned this a time or two before, but in recent dealings with a well-known WCM and DAM vendor there seemed to be some confusion about it, so perhaps it bears discussing one more time. We have a policy at CMS Watch of not signing NDAs with the vendors we evaluate ... Read more

The trouble with DAM and your corporate laptops

04-Feb-2010 | By Theresa Regli | All DAM Trends

The net-wide discussion over the Apple iPad's lack of Adobe Flash support has brought back a few memories for me: ones in which DAM tools with sexy Flash interfaces can't run in large, corporate locked-down environments ... Read more

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