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What Next for Web CMS Vendors?

kthomas@cmswatch.com(Kasman Thomas) — Thu, 9 Oct 2008 00:01:00 -0400

After two years of feverishly adding social applications and AJAXy interfaces, Web CMS vendors have come to a crossroads, argues CMS Watch analyst, Kas Thomas. They are slowly figuring out how to co-exist with SharePoint -- but don't expect other major innovations in 2009, says Kas, as vendors look to back-fill architectures and squash proliferating bugs...

Vignette, Ajax, and Usability

tbyrne@cmswatch.com(Tony Byrne) — Fri, 2 Nov 2007 10:44:00 -0400

Web CMS vendor Vignette recently released a new, dashboard-type interface featuring several Ajax controls. CMS Watch founder Tony Byrne demonstrates some of the ups and downs of this new approach, and poses some larger questions about usable interfaces...

New IE7 Shakes Up CMS and Portal Implementations

tbyrne@cmswatch.com; jboye@cmswatch.com(Tony Byrne and Janus Boye) — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:19:00 -0500

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...

Ingeniux releases CMS version 5.0

tbyrne@cmswatch.com(Tony Byrne) — Thu, 25 May 2006 14:10:00 -0400

While we weren't looking, Ingeniux quietly released a long-awaited version 5 of its CMS product. The company says that the new version reflects major usability testing and greater emphasis on multi-channel publishing, including a new module to generate PDFs via XSL-FO from the Ingeniux XML-based repository. I haven't seen the new version in action yet, but those seem like useful improvements. Two of our knocks against the previous version were indeed its somewhat clunky interface and its inability to support more object-oriented chunking and re-use of XML documents, so it will be interesting to see the extent to which version 5 has addressed those shortcomings. Our third knock against Ingeniux was its funky, X-ified URLs that lack any directory structure; these appear to remain (c.f., http://www.ingeniux.com/x590.xml, or http://www.goucher.edu/x9632.xml on a largish customer site). As of today, the company's European arm (in Spain) still sells version 4.2.

Seeking a more dynamic website

Tony Byrne — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:00:00 -0400

What CMS providers are attuned to the educational arena?

"Competitive Upgrades" Hit the CM Marketplace

tbyrne@cmswatch.com(Tony Byrne) — Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:00:00 -0400

It was inevitable. And you'll see more of it. With recent mergers, acquisitions, and outright collapse, vendors will offer competitive upgrades to stranded buyers. Seattle-based Ingeniux is the first out of the gate, with special offers for former eBT and NCompass clients. It's not clear, however, that those buyers are truly "orphaned" right now, and no one should underestimate the difficulty of switching platforms, although any pricing break is surely attractive...
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