Implementing a Solution
The quality of the implementation will make or break your CMS or Search project. Get some good advice here.
Article: Component Content Management Healthcheck
Does Your Company Have a Component Content Management Problem?
You may sense that you need Component Content Management, but how can you be sure? Take our handy (and anonymous) Component Content Management "health quiz" and get a custom diagnosis...
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Article: E-mail Archiving and Management Healthcheck
Does Your Company Have an E-mail Archiving and Management Problem?
Nearly everyone gripes about the effectiveness of their e-mail archiving and management tools, but just how bad is the problem at your enterprise? Take our handy e-mail archiving and management "health quiz" and get a custom diagnosis...
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Article: Converging Content and Data
Love Your Local Data Warehouse Manager
Within most enterprises, the worlds of "data" and "content" remain far apart, despite recurring business needs to converge different types of information. Tony Byrne argues that data specialists have a lot to teach content specialists -- and vice-versa. The trick is finding common ground, allied interests, and a common vocabulary...
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Article: 2008 Predictions
Twelve Predictions for 2008
It's that time of year again. The CMS Watch analyst team ponders what to expect next year, and offers 12 predictions that we think will shape content technologies in 2008 -- from Google to Microsoft, Web/Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Search, Archiving, and more...
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Article: Facebook
Is Facebook in the Enterprise an Oxymoron?
Facebook is all the rage -- and consequently bringing Enterprise 2.0 to the fore. Is it time to revisit your Intranet platform? CMS Watch founder Tony Byrne looks at Facebook's benefits and demerits and concludes that your IT department could learn some important lessons about balancing employee enablement and control over information...
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Article: Web Analytics Costs
Web Analytics Costs
How much should your web analytics effort cost? Contributing Analyst Phil Kemelor suggests that tabulating the expenses may not be as simple as it seems at first blush. But never fear, Phil offers a framework for calculating the total cost of ownership...
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Article: Post-launch support
Tending Your CMS Garden
Applications, like flowers, are living things. So, argues Jim Howard, you'll
want to do more than just implement a CMS, you need to tend it over time to
make sure those beautiful flowers you expect will still bloom for you...
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Article: CMS reputation
Don't let your CMS get a bad rap
Every project manager dreads it: the bad reputation that keeps a difficult project from ever succeeding. Your web content management project can quickly get a bad rap, notes CMS consultant Sara Redin, but a savvy manager can defeat it, maybe even before it forms...
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Article: IE7 and You
New IE7 Shakes Up CMS and Portal Implementations
Is your CMS or Portal vendor ready for IE7? As your read this, Microsoft is updating PCs around the world, but Tony Byrne and Janus Boye point out that support for the new browser varies across the content technology marketplace. Whatever your application, you likely have some important testing to do...
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Article: Portal Usability
Improving portal usability
The enterprise portal experience can be excruciating for end-users, argues CMS Watch contributing analyst, Janus Boye. By paying attention to usability issues at the start of a project, development teams can improve the likelihood that portal investments really pay off.
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Article: SEO and Your CMS
Embedding SEO Best Practices in CMS Implementations
Because web content management solutions provide centralized control over web site layout and presentation, they can be used to enforce many search engine optimization best practices, improving indexing and your likelihood of better rankings. Randy Woods and Julie Batten of non-linear creations offer a primer on making your CMS implementation more SEO-aware...
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Article: Offshoring ECM
ECM in an Offshoring Context
Many companies outsource content management implementations to systems integrators, but what if the implementers are based half-way around the world? Wipro's Apoorv Durga offers some good advice for enterprises considering taking their next ECM project offshore. As this map suggests, the view is quite different from India...
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Article: Direct Web Remoting
Ajax and Your CMS
AJAX is cool, but is it functional? Jonathan Downes and Joe Walker look at the prospects for Ajax interfaces in Web content management systems, and find vendors doing a bit more to improve CMS interfaces than to support Ajax-driven websites...
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Article: Project Management
Why do CMS projects go over budget?
Lots of reasons, says CMS Watch contributing analyst, Janus Boye. Some of them stem from good old fashioned IT overruns, but CMS projects in particular are prone to budget shortfalls. Check out this list before creating your next budget...
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Article: Professional Services
Identifying the Right Implementation Partner
So you carefully vetted your CMS vendor. That's good. But did you do as much diligence on the implementation team? Janus Boye returns to CMS Watch to argue that spending a little more time evaluating the right implementation partners will mean a big difference for the outcome of your project...
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Article: Testing
CMS Acceptance Testing
Do you have a thorough acceptance test plan for that content management system you're implementing? Lisa Welchman returns to CMS Watch to explain how and why you should undertake formal acceptance testing...
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Article: Involving the Business
Practical Ideas for CMS Project Success
Your CMS project might appear overwhelming, but Denmark's Janus Boye argues for getting business units more involved in the process. Follow some practical steps, and you too can celebrate a successful project...
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Article: Project Collaboration
Collaboration First, Then Knowledge Management
Looking to facilitate electronic collaboration in your enterprise? Matthew Clapp returns to CMS Watch to argue that you should endeavor first to support the practical needs of distributed workers for completing projects -- and only then support leveraging that knowledge for the rest of the enterprise...
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Article: Microsoft Integration
Integrating Content Management Server with SharePoint Portal
Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 lacks functionality in some useful areas when deploying a web application. Bill Schneider returns to CMS Watch to detail how to integrate the product with MS SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to obtain key search, asset-management, and portal-integration services...
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Article: Metrics
Build Analytics into Your CMS
Many CMS vendors build in useful, lightweight add-ons -- like collaboration, asset management, and search -- to their solutions when the alternative of integrating a 3rd-party solution proves too complex or costly. John Girard argues that likewise, website analytics should become part of your Web content management system as well...
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