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Products We Track:

Exchange Hosted Archive (website)

FAST ESP (website)

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (website)

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (website)

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (website)

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 (website)

MOSS 2007 WCM (website)

Search Server 2008 (website)

SharePoint (website)

Microsoft leaves Linux-based FAST customers stranded
09-Feb-2010 ( Channel)

Many Portal Products Getting Refreshed
02-Feb-2010 ( Channel)

New Enterprise Portals Research
28-Jan-2010 ( Channel)

Oracle and SharePoint
26-Jan-2010 ( Channel)

Search gets (even more) specialized
13-Jan-2010 ( Channel)

Google vs. SharePoint can be Apples vs. Oranges
12-Jan-2010 ( Channel)

SurfRay Ontolica 2010
12-Jan-2010 ( Channel)

Enterprise search buyers look to specialized search players
05-Jan-2010 ( Channel)

New Research on the ECM/Document Management Mid-Market
23-Nov-2009 ( Channel)

Is the SharePoint bubble going to burst?
11-Nov-2009 ( Channel)

Enterprise 2.0 Conference wrap up
06-Nov-2009 ( Channel)

Eight Pros and Eight Cons to SharePoint 2010
29-Oct-2009 ( Channel)

Google takes page from Microsoft playbook
28-Oct-2009 ( Channel)

SharePoint strategy on three coasts
26-Oct-2009 ( Channel)

Closing thoughts on SharePoint Conference
23-Oct-2009 ( Channel)

Google Appliance 6.2 catching up with marketing
20-Oct-2009 ( Channel)

First thoughts on the SharePoint 2010 user experience
20-Oct-2009 ( Channel)

SharePoint -- What's Ahead?
19-Oct-2009 ( Channel)

SharePoint Conference 2009
13-Oct-2009 ( Channel)

Lotus Connections now with Microblogging and Wikis
05-Oct-2009 ( Channel)

Google Sites with API: Still No SharePoint Killer
02-Oct-2009 ( Channel)

Can ECM ever be Agile?
15-Sep-2009 ( Channel)

Old Software Never Dies -- SurfRay Releases Ontolica 4.0
14-Sep-2009 ( Channel)

Optimize SharePoint 2007 before you fantasize about SharePoint 2010
08-Sep-2009 ( Channel)

Be wary of self-described SharePoint killers
31-Aug-2009 ( Channel)

Shadow IT and ECM
27-Aug-2009 ( Channel)

ECM Where You Work
24-Aug-2009 ( Channel)

Do SharePoint right before SharePoint does you wrong
19-Aug-2009 ( Channel)

Storage costs for ECM and DAM Systems
13-Aug-2009 ( Channel)

Visualizing the Social Software and Collaboration Marketplace
05-Aug-2009 ( Channel)

SharePoint 2010 has new pillars
16-Jul-2009 ( Channel)

A browser is a search engine?
30-Jun-2009 ( Channel)

Will the success of SharePoint 2007 keep 2010 from leaving the station?
29-Jun-2009 ( Channel)

SharePoint does not give you Web Governance
15-Jun-2009 ( Channel)

Making sense of CMS Watch....
11-Jun-2009 ( Channel)

EMC Documentum opens the kimono
04-Jun-2009 ( Channel)

Google Wave: Tsunami or Wipe Out?
29-May-2009 ( Channel)

Wolfram Alpha search engine: just the facts
25-May-2009 ( Channel)

Social Computing and Unified Communications -- coming together?
21-May-2009 ( Channel)

Microsoft finally uses SharePoint on its own public site
21-May-2009 ( Channel)

Evaluating SharePoint for larger enterprises
11-May-2009 ( Channel)

JBoye 2009 conference wrap-up
08-May-2009 ( Channel)

SharePoint 2010: Still confused?
16-Apr-2009 ( Channel)

The new KISS: Keep Implementations of SharePoint Simple
15-Apr-2009 ( Channel)

SharePoint Designer is no free lunch
06-Apr-2009 ( Channel)

New SharePoint-in-the-Enterprise Course
24-Mar-2009 ( Channel)

Autonomy, Interwoven, and the ongoing search-content management dance
18-Mar-2009 ( Channel)

Software versions - how strange the change from major to minor
18-Mar-2009 ( Channel)

Omniture SiteSearch has Atomz core
10-Mar-2009 ( Channel)

SharePoint and Microsoft's new cloud announcement
04-Mar-2009 ( Channel)

Search Marketplace Stabilizing After Years of Turbulence
26-Feb-2009 ( Channel)

Microsoft discloses plans for FAST ESP
10-Feb-2009 ( Channel)

CMIS and SharePoint - Making it Real
04-Feb-2009 ( Channel)

IBM, Microsoft, and the patent mess - how to protect yourself
31-Jan-2009 ( Channel)

SharePoint - The Henry Ford of Business Intelligence?
30-Jan-2009 ( Channel)

Day tries pay-as-you-go licensing
28-Jan-2009 ( Channel)

John Lervik resigns from Microsoft-FAST
23-Jan-2009 ( Channel)

Updated Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint
16-Jan-2009 ( Channel)

Assessing your SharePoint strategy
12-Jan-2009 ( Channel)

Pondering the future of .NET 2.0 solutions like DNN and Telligent
02-Jan-2009 ( Channel)

Open Source blogging, the Oxite way
09-Dec-2008 ( Channel)

SharePoint - Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No...
02-Dec-2008 ( Channel)

SharePoint and 3rd Party Add-ons
26-Nov-2008 ( Channel)

Talking SharePoint governance, partners
20-Nov-2008 ( Channel)

When public agencies select software
19-Nov-2008 ( Channel)

We release SharePoint Report 2009
14-Nov-2008 ( Channel)

More on the SharePoint Service Pack
28-Oct-2008 ( Channel)

SharePoint 2007 SP2 is coming
26-Oct-2008 ( Channel)

Scalable ECM?
23-Oct-2008 ( Channel)

CMS Watch announces new SharePoint education series
21-Oct-2008 ( Channel)

Autonomy, centralizing control of MOSS
21-Oct-2008 ( Channel)

More Fast Upheaval
16-Oct-2008 ( Channel)

Microsoft to support jQuery 24/7
01-Oct-2008 ( Channel)

Three continents, one SharePoint story
25-Sep-2008 ( Channel)

The ECM Suites Report 2009 released today
17-Sep-2008 ( Channel)

Microsoft SharePoint and the CMIS standard
16-Sep-2008 ( Channel)

CMIS - the new Lingua Franca of ECM?
10-Sep-2008 ( Channel)

Archived SharePoint Webinar
08-Sep-2008 ( Channel)

ADAM Software debuts SharePoint connector for DAM
01-Sep-2008 ( Channel)

Small step towards addressing SharePoint's replication problem
29-Aug-2008 ( Channel)

What You Need To Know About Search in SharePoint 2007
29-Aug-2008 ( Channel)

Virtual SharePoint?
28-Aug-2008 ( Channel)

Free SharePoint Webinar
15-Aug-2008 ( Channel)

Plenty of choice for buyers in ECM's mid-market
12-Aug-2008 ( Channel)

Cuil could be cool
01-Aug-2008 ( Channel)

Ongoing confusion in the land of MS search technology
01-Aug-2008 ( Channel)

Alfresco as a SharePoint alternative
31-Jul-2008 ( Channel)

Stop the Presses: the Word is out
30-Jul-2008 ( Channel)

Confusing enterprise agreements and enterprise licenses in SharePoint
25-Jul-2008 ( Channel)

Talking about Social Software
18-Jul-2008 ( Channel)

Infrastructure Updates for SharePoint
18-Jul-2008 ( Channel)

Understanding SharePoint through historical markers
17-Jul-2008 ( Channel)

What's to like about SharePoint: Forms Services
16-Jul-2008 ( Channel)

How Fast is Attivio?
05-Jul-2008 ( Channel)

Open Text - acquire or be acquired?
04-Jul-2008 ( Channel)

White paper on SharePoint for public websites
02-Jul-2008 ( Channel)

Web CMS Thoughts from Gilbane Day One
19-Jun-2008 ( Channel)

Web CMS versus Social Software?
18-Jun-2008 ( Channel)

Is SharePoint the end of (portal) history?
16-Jun-2008 ( Channel)

Announcing the Enterprise Social Software Report 2008
11-Jun-2008 ( Channel)

IBM-Microsoft shoot-out at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference
09-Jun-2008 ( Channel)

Microsoft Releases Latest SharePoint Extensions and Improves Developer Experience
06-Jun-2008 ( Channel)

FAST clarification
03-Jun-2008 ( Channel)

FAST and the Furious
30-May-2008 ( Channel)

Talking SharePoint at the Enterprise-3 Conference
23-May-2008 ( Channel)

Announcing the E-mail Archiving and Management Report
20-May-2008 ( Channel)

Enterprise search: free as in free beer?
16-May-2008 ( Channel)

Facebook: Not just a toy...
12-May-2008 ( Channel)

Imaging - the most important element of ECM?
09-May-2008 ( Channel)

Announcing The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008
07-May-2008 ( Channel)

Budget time: How much should I set aside for software licenses?
03-May-2008 ( Channel)

Thoughts on SharePoint and FAST Search
25-Apr-2008 ( Channel)

SharePoint, accessibility, and web standards
23-Apr-2008 ( Channel)

Join a free SharePoint strategy webinar
17-Apr-2008 ( Channel)

Oooh...an XML fight!
04-Apr-2008 ( Channel)

More Reasons to Love London
01-Apr-2008 ( Channel)

We release a comprehensive SharePoint evaluation
27-Mar-2008 ( Channel)

A New Wave of Enterprise Search?
25-Mar-2008 ( Channel)

A tale of two search technology selections
18-Mar-2008 ( Channel)

SharePoint Conference: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Blue
10-Mar-2008 ( Channel)

36 Hours at AIIM: Google, SharePoint, Customers
05-Mar-2008 ( Channel)

Google Sites hardly a SharePoint killer -- but that's not the point
28-Feb-2008 ( Channel)

When Microsoft and partners don't push MOSS 2007 for web content management
27-Feb-2008 ( Channel)

More on SharePoint licensing costs
24-Feb-2008 ( Channel)

The Enterprise Search Report 2008, updated, plus a Basic Search edition
14-Feb-2008 ( Channel)

SAP invests in Endeca
06-Feb-2008 ( Channel)

Location matters: URLs should be short, meaningful and permanent
23-Jan-2008 ( Channel)

Google Search Appliance: small step in technology, giant leap in marketing
17-Jan-2008 ( Channel)

That was FAST: Microsoft to acquire Norwegian search vendor
08-Jan-2008 ( Channel)

Worldwide ECM Events in 2008
07-Jan-2008 ( Channel)

Content cleanup in the former East Germany
26-Dec-2007 ( Channel)

At last: Details out on MOSS 2007 SP1
05-Dec-2007 ( Channel)

ECM Suites Report 2008 Released
04-Dec-2007 ( Channel)

Real training for WCM in MOSS 2007
19-Nov-2007 ( Channel)

Coming second in a one-horse race
18-Nov-2007 ( Channel)

SharePoint as a .NET development platform
13-Nov-2007 ( Channel)

Microsoft's Free Lunch
07-Nov-2007 ( Channel)

Mondosoft: going once, going twice...
26-Oct-2007 ( Channel)

Autonomy buys Meridio
23-Oct-2007 ( Channel)

Another wiki for MOSS 2007
21-Oct-2007 ( Channel)

Mondosoft's ride coming to an end?
15-Oct-2007 ( Channel)

Search the X-Files: unknown entities
21-Sep-2007 ( Channel)

FAST Weathering it out in the Fjords
17-Aug-2007 ( Channel)

Talk to Microsoft
03-Aug-2007 ( Channel)

Measuring SharePoint Growth
28-Jul-2007 ( Channel)

FAST, Microsoft and the meaning of working together
20-Jul-2007 ( Channel)

No free lunch with MOSS 2007
13-Jul-2007 ( Channel)

Microsoft, Big ECM, and Big Pharma
03-Jul-2007 ( Channel)

Still no official roadmap for SharePoint 2007
04-Jun-2007 ( Channel)

Learn about MOSS 2007
08-May-2007 ( Channel)

SharePoint and your public website
25-Apr-2007 ( Channel)

AIIM Expo and the ECM marketplace
20-Apr-2007 ( Channel)

FAST buys Convera's RetrievalWare
06-Apr-2007 ( Channel)

Announcing latest version of The Web CMS Report
20-Mar-2007 ( Channel)

SharePoint: A bunch of apps loosely joined?
15-Mar-2007 ( Channel)

How a CMS can help your web analytics
01-Mar-2007 ( Channel)

Random MOSS musings
26-Feb-2007 ( Channel)

Web 2.0 and your portal
09-Feb-2007 ( Channel)

Debugging MOSS 2007...but not in all major languages
06-Feb-2007 ( Channel)

Ensuring portal project success
05-Feb-2007 ( Channel)

Decoupling content management services revisited
15-Jan-2007 ( Channel)

Early adopters of SharePoint 2007 WCM in the UK
13-Dec-2006 ( Channel)

This portal will self-destruct in 5 seconds
06-Dec-2006 ( Channel)

SharePoint 2007: 3rd-party plug-ins for basic functionality
20-Nov-2006 ( Channel)

SharePoint 2007: Ring in the new...and the old
01-Nov-2006 ( Channel)

Publishing collections in MOSS 2007 Web Content Management
30-Oct-2006 ( Channel)

BEA and Microsoft
20-Oct-2006 ( Channel)

Documentum plus Microsoft
03-Oct-2006 ( Channel)

FrontPage is dead. Long live FrontPage!
18-Sep-2006 ( Channel)

How the new Office 2007 will impact intranet professionals
28-Jul-2006 ( Channel)

Microsoft continues security focus with recent acquisition
23-May-2006 ( Channel)

eRoom: Documentum on the cheap?
15-May-2006 ( Channel)

Stellent, Fast, and the decoupling of Search and ECM
05-May-2006 ( Channel)

New SharePoint Console from BEA AquaLogic
13-Apr-2006 ( Channel)

Microsoft and Records Management
11-Apr-2006 ( Channel)

Expensive waiting game for Microsoft customers
31-Mar-2006 ( Channel)

Microsoft and search: the year of the dog?
24-Mar-2006 ( Channel)

Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint
02-Mar-2006 ( Channel)

Where are the high-end .NET CM/DM packages?
22-Jan-2006 ( Channel)

Microsoft releases free migration tools for Notes/Domino
20-Jan-2006 ( Channel)

SharePoint development team blog
16-Jan-2006 ( Channel)

More on the future of Microsoft CMS
03-Jan-2006 ( Channel)

Microsoft - Open Text rumor is just that
15-Dec-2005 ( Channel)

FAST to buy parent Opticom
10-Dec-2005 ( Channel)

Chill wind continues to blow for FAST
08-Dec-2005 ( Channel)

Microsoft, Oracle, and ECM
04-Dec-2005 ( Channel)

Microsoft and desktop search
21-Nov-2005 ( Channel)

Big 4 to become Big 3 Enterprise Search vendors
04-Nov-2005 ( Channel)

Waiting for the upgrade
20-Oct-2005 ( Channel)

Microsoft's enviable CMS FAQ
12-Oct-2005 ( Channel)

Microsoft Vista and ECM
16-Sep-2005 ( Channel)

80:20 releases free compliance software for SharePoint
12-Sep-2005 ( Channel)

Oracle quietly releases ECM package
02-Sep-2005 ( Channel)

A review of Alfresco
01-Sep-2005 ( Channel)

FirstGov search engine evolving
29-Aug-2005 ( Channel)

Microsoft CMS + Sharepoint: It's Official
19-Jul-2005 ( Channel)

3rd-Party Search for SharePoint
20-Jun-2005 ( Channel)

FAST rising? CM buyers want more search choices
23-May-2005 ( Channel)

Interwoven gets cozier with Microsoft
13-May-2005 ( Channel)

Next Rev of Microsoft CMS in 2006?
28-Feb-2005 ( Channel)

Microsoft Re-invigorating Content Management Server?
05-Jan-2005 ( Channel)

Oracle's Ripple
13-Dec-2004 ( Channel)

Open-source add-on for Microsoft CMS
06-Dec-2004 ( Channel)

Ghosts at the AIIM Banquet (IA and Microsoft)
09-Mar-2004 ( Channel)

Deployment Wizard for MS CMS Standard Edition
09-Dec-2003 ( Channel)

Microsoft announces "Standard Edition" of CM Server
10-Oct-2003 ( Channel)

Microsoft to Target a Lower Tier
13-Aug-2003 ( Channel)

Easing Migration to MS CMS2002
28-Jan-2003 ( Channel)

Battle for the Windows-based CMS Mid-Market, Continued...
13-Jan-2003 ( Channel)

MS CMS2002: Not Your Father's nCompass
09-Oct-2002 ( Channel)

MS CMS Round 2, Now in Beta
11-Jul-2002 ( Channel)

MS CMS 2002 -- Before the End of the Year?
01-May-2002 ( Channel)

The Microsoft CMS Dilemma
08-Jan-2002 ( Channel)

Microsoft Joins the CM Dance
04-Aug-2001 ( Channel)

Enterprise Search Vendor Landscape, Circa 2008
19-Feb-2008 (Search Channel)

Is Facebook in the Enterprise an Oxymoron?
10-Dec-2007 (CMS Channel)

Do you need an ECMS, WCMS, or a Portal?
25-Sep-2007 (CMS Channel)

What Next for Web CMS Vendors?
09-Oct-2008 (CMS Channel)

Twelve Predictions for 2008
18-Dec-2007

Enterprise Portal Marketplace: 2008 Vendor Risk Profile
17-Jan-2008 (Portal Channel)

Enterprise Search: Trends for 2008
29-Nov-2007 (Search Channel)

Enterprise Search: Trends for 2008
29-Nov-2007 (Search Channel)

Predictions for 2007: The elusive quest for simple
15-Jan-2007 (ECM Channel)

New IE7 Shakes Up CMS and Portal Implementations
31-Oct-2006 (CMS Channel)

Portal Kudos and Shortcomings -- Summer, 2006
27-Jul-2006 (Portal Channel)

Enterprise Portals: Tip of Which Iceberg?
06-Apr-2006 (Portal Channel)

ECM is dead - long live ECM!
07-Jun-2006 (ECM Channel)

Integrating Content Management Server with SharePoint Portal
17-May-2004 (CMS Channel)

Integrating Content Management Server with SharePoint Portal
17-May-2004 (CMS Channel)

Specifications, Certifications, and Compliance: There is a Difference
15-Dec-2005 (ECM Channel)

Enterprise Content Management Marketplace: Opportunities and Risks
23-Apr-2007 (ECM Channel)

Marketplace Realities: A European Perspective
14-Dec-2006 (CMS Channel)

Will an ownership struggle slow FAST's ascent?
05-Dec-2005 (Search Channel)

Integrating MS CMS and Commerce Server
20-Aug-2004 (CMS Channel)

Microsoft CMS 2002 and VisualStudio.NET
19-Nov-2002 (CMS Channel)

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