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The Web CMS Report 2008 looks at... Scenario-based RFPs

"Sometimes called "scenarios," use cases can provide a much richer way of describing your needs and connecting them to business benefits. Use cases can also vastly simplify and speed up the vendor selection process by giving everyone a target to shoot for... We like to develop use cases that start with an "as-is" and then describe an ideal "to be." The more detailed your use cases are, the more you will be able to differentiate solutions. But if time is short, even simple use cases may suffice. Consider this one:..."

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Now just call it "AJAX"

08-Mar-2005

Last year we wrote about how some applications -- notably Google Mail and Suggest -- were taking advantage of Javascript plus XML-over-HTTP for richer interfaces. Now Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path has written a nice summary and (perhaps more imporantly) come up with a new name for the approach: "AJAX." Some CMS vendors are beginning to use AJAX methodologies, although from what we have seen mostly in a tentative way (if you're a vendor using AJAX, do tell where and how). Asynchronous communication with the server has tremendous potential to make heretofore very linear authoring and workflow procedures in a CMS much more fluid and therefore more, well, lifelike...

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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