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Tony Byrne

Understanding SaaS CMS pricing

Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Mar-2010

Last week I received a message from a friend discussing the annual fees his firm pays for their hosted Web CMS. The CMS and associated website are served up by a well-known, Software as a Service ("SaaS") WCM vendor ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

SharePoint Ecosystem Pros and Cons

Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Mar-2010

I hope you can join me 15 April for a great conference (Midwest SharePoint 2010 Conference), at a great venue (Italian Conference Center), in a great city (Milwaukee, WI, USA), on a Great Lake (Michigan) ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Updates to our Web CMS research

Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Mar-2010

Last month we updated several WCM vendor evaluations, including ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Evaluating WordPress as a Web CMS

Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Mar-2010

There's a debate raging within Twitter about whether traditional blogging platform WordPress is also a CMS ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Which CMS does The Real Story Group Use?

Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Mar-2010

I get that question a lot, especially since one of our main services is called "CMS Watch" ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Yammer's microblogging branches out

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 2-Mar-2010

Microblogging is the quintessential "keep it simple" service.  So when a vendor adds a seemingly minor new feature, that's relatively big news ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Two new Advisory Papers for enterprise technology selection teams

Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Mar-2010

My colleague Alan has produced two short briefings of special interest to content technology selection teams ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Beware Drupal, Joomla! plug-in vulnerabilities

Added By Kas Thomas on 1-Mar-2010

IBM has released its IBM Security Solutions X-Force 2009 Trend and Risk Report, and the news for users of popular WCM platforms Drupal, Joomla!, TYPO3, and WordPress is decidedly mixed ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

EMC aims to demonstrate interoperability with contest

Added By Kas Thomas on 26-Feb-2010

In case you weren't thinking "interoperability" was EMC's middle name, EMC hopes to convince the world otherwise with its EDN Monster Mash -- a Developer Challenge designed to showcase the mashability of EMC's Celerra, Centerra, Documentum, and Atmos Online product lines ... Continue Reading

Phil Kemelor

Can US Government agencies really use Google Analytics?

Added By Phil Kemelor on 24-Feb-2010

Does Google Analytics' new availability on apps.gov mean unfettered availability of the free analytics tool for US federal government agencies? A story in SearchEngineWatch might lead you to think so, but key leaders in the Federal web analytics community point out ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

What is Content Management?

Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Feb-2010

There's a question that keeps popping up around our industry: "What is Enterprise Content Management?" ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Which is better for you - platforms or products

Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Feb-2010

Today we released a new advisory paper, "How the New Platforms vs. Products Debate Impacts Your Success." Subscribers to any of our EI Watch, SharePoint Watch, and CMS Watch research streams can ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Google - unsuitable for the enterprise

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010

For years now Google has played fast and loose with information confidentiality and privacy issues. As if further proof were needed ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Not Buying Into Open Text and the Power of Three

Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Feb-2010

Mega-vendor Open Text announced today that it would acquire fellow Canadian vendor, NStein. NStein was known mostly for its text-mining / text analytics tools, but over the years took a circuitous route ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

SAP, EMC, and Open Text - Who cares?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010

Over the last few weeks there has been a flurry of media interest in the fact that SAP is reselling EMC Documentum and Open Text products. It's a flurry (bordering on blizzard) that is of little or no relevance to actual buyers of these software products ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Keeping it Real

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010

Welcome to the Real Story Group! For my colleagues and I this is an exciting time, and part of a continuing adventure that I hope you will join. ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Fatwire plus EMC - the WCM perspective

Added By Apoorv Durga on 19-Feb-2010

So my colleague Kas was not very off track when he speculated something's cooking between EMC and FatWire. They announced a strategic partnership.that includes a minority stake for EMC in FatWire and ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Welcome to the Real Story Group

Added By Tony Byrne on 17-Feb-2010

Welcome to the Real Story Group. Today we cut over to our new website(s) ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Good times for HTML

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 15-Feb-2010

On behalf of HTML developers across the world, I would like to thank Apple and Google. Specifically, Mountain View for dropping Internet Explorer 6 support, and in its own not-so-small way helping us get rid of the untold horrors IE6 has inflicted on stylesheets for the past seven years. And Cupertino for the advancement of HTML 5 ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Big changes coming at CMS Watch

Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Feb-2010

Early next week, we will be re-launching this website, adding some new sites, and at a more fundamental level, revamping the way we serve our customers. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

ROI calculations are a joke

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Feb-2010

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 ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Alterian drops Immediacy

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 4-Feb-2010

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 ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Non-disclosure is a non-starter

Added By Kas Thomas on 4-Feb-2010

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 ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Vendor Tip: perform some basic research before disqualifying prospects

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Feb-2010

Our job here is to advise buyers of technology, never vendors. But today I am going to make an exception and give the vendors out there a solid tip. Do your homework before responding to RFPs ... Continue Reading

 

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