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Article: DAM-Trends
Innovations in Digital Asset Management, Circa 2008
The Digital Asset Management (DAM) marketplace doesn't receive a lot of attention, but DPCI's Joseph Bachana argues that some very interesting developments are transpiring. The problem is, no single vendor has a lock on how to combine all these innovations into a comprehensive offering...
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Article: Portal Must Haves
State of the Art for Enterprise Portals
CMS Watch evaluates technology according to common business scenarios. But is it possible to identify a set of baseline capabilities and attributes for tools in a reasonably mature marketplace like enterprise portals? Janus Boye thinks so, and lays out "state of the art" for portal software, circa 2007...
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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: European Market
Marketplace Realities: A European Perspective
Janus Boye examines the content technology landscape from the perspective of a European customer, and finds much of concern (beta software, inexperience, confusing terminology), but much to laud (better accessibility, widespread choice) as well...
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Article: OpenCms 6
OpenCms 6.0: A Review
OpenCms is perhaps the best-known Java-based open source Web CMS. But how does the package really work, and when is it best employed? Two consulting engineers, Slava Asipenko and Yuval Zukerman, detail the pros and cons of OpenCms, with some conclusions about its suitability for various scenarios...
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Article: FAST Search in play?
Will an ownership struggle slow FAST's ascent?
Just when you thought privately-held vendors were tough to figure out...CMS Watch contributing analyst Steve Arnold charts the ownership intrigues facing publicly-held enterprise search provider, FAST Search & Transfer...
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Article: Open-Src
Open-Source CMS: Prohibitively Fractured?
Open-source CMS offerings are falling behind their commercial competitors, argues Tony Byrne. Reversing the trend will require fewer projects, and more product managers...
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Article: Enterprise Content Management
"ECM" -- Don't buy it
Doesn't "Enterprise" Content Management sound alluring? Most analysts think so, and many vendors have joined the ECM bandwagon. CrownPeak's Jim Howard returns to CMS Watch to argue that ECM is so hot, in fact, that its early practioners are getting badly burned...
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Article: Cocoon
XML Web Publishing
John Callahan surveys the Apache "Cocoon" framework and suggests that some very nice Web creatures could take wing...
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Article: AXIS
AXIS: Java Web Services
Sure, Web Services is a really cool concept. But are there applications for content management? And can SOAP be done in a relatively simple fashion? John Callahan takes a look at the AXIS toolkit from the Apache Project and answers "yes" and "yes"...
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Article: Zope CMF
Zope Content Management Framework (Part 2 of 2)
Zope CMF could use a bit more QA and better docs, says Adam Fields in this second of a two-part review. But Zope also sports a powerful, object-oriented model, and if you stare at the code long enough, somehow it all makes sense...
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Article: Zope
Zope Content Management Framework (Part 1)
In the first installment of this 2-part review, CMS veteran Adam Fields takes a look at the open-source Zope platform. Don't let its abysmal documentation hold you back, Adam notes, because Zope's object-oriented model is really quite powerful...
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Article: Midgard 1.4
Midgard Lights An Open-Source "LAMP."
James Christensen and Martin Gottlieb explain why -- if you've already invested in Apache and PHP -- Midgard should join your short list of CM packages to consider...
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