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Monday, Nov 17 2008

Our hearts are thumping and adrenalin levels are high as we tell you about the just-released Day’s CQ5 WCM. To get as close as possible to a real-life experience, we went ahead and installed the software from scratch and played with it for a couple of days. It was a fun ride.

Without further due, let’s jump in and see what Day came up with after three years of WCM silence.

Monday, Nov 10 2008

As professionals, we are always on the lookout for new resources to provide us valuable information about content management. But where do we look? Just about everywhere actually. Fortunately for us, a new URL crossed our path that might be the answer to all our prayers: ECMHUB.

Tuesday, Sep 9 2008

Every Content Management Solution Provider seeks to find and market what makes them unique. For Nstein, it’s a little about their ability to produce a multi-lingual content management solution for the digital publishing industry. But that’s not what makes them unique — they have a “secret sauce”. And it may just be the thing that pushes them ahead of an ever growing and growling pack.

Tuesday, Aug 26 2008

The Social Media industry seems to get just a little bit bigger every hour and it’s amazing how many different vendors can come on the scene and offer products and solutions that can help us design and build communities of one sort or another.

As an enterprise though, you need to be sure you are working with the right solution provider. Someone who is not only selling you a service, but helping you truly understand why and how to implement it. This is where you see Awareness — an on-demand social media platform for Web 2.0 communities provider — emerge as a front-runner. They have the right technology platform and what appears to be a wealth of knowledge and understanding to implement your community(s) the right way.

Wednesday, Aug 13 2008

The Digitalus CMS aims to empower PHP developers to create content on a solid, simple and extendable content management system that is based off of the widely popular Zend Framework.

Monday, Aug 11 2008

You know them for their document management and records management systems, but today Laserfiche has moved a step further into the world of enterprise content management with the announcement of Laserfiche Rio, a combination of their enterprise document management software and business process management software.

Laserfiche says Rio is the enterprise content management solution you’ve been looking for. And guess what? — It integrates with SharePoint.

Wednesday, Aug 6 2008

Content management terminology changes with time. The times of the Micro CMS may soon be gone, as now it appears it is the era of the “simple CMS,” — at least as positioned by Bizy, Inc. They have announced the distribution of their “simple CMS” product Bizyweb. Were they joking?

Wednesday, Aug 6 2008

If you were under the impression that the WCM market was overpopulated, think again. There’s yet another addition to the happy WCM family – a little baby named Edicy. Fraktal, a start-up software company based in Tartu, Estonia, is behind the new CMS tool.

We’ve been watching Edicy for more than a couple of weeks now trying to figure out where it is going. We still are waiting, but thought we’d share what we know so far.

Tuesday, Jul 29 2008

Water & Stone, a web development company specializing in Open Source technologies, released a popularity survey of open source content management systems. In the analysis of 19 of the most prominent open source content management systems, Water and Stone evaluated CMS’s on the basis of Rate of Adoption and Brand Strength, as well as a variety of other viability indicators and trends.

Thursday, Jul 24 2008

So MOSS has been attacked for its web content management, lack of social networking features, its blogging and wiki functionality, and its fitness as a public facing Web CMS …hmmm not much else they can go after is there?

Oh yeah…be careful using it as an application development platform — it could wreak havoc in your organization.

Monday, Jul 21 2008

What is Tridion? Or is it Trillian, Trideon or Tridian? What can we say, it’s tough being a Euro web content management vendor in the U.S. market.

After conquering most of Europe, SDL Tridion started its Web CMS quest in the U.S. in 2006 with their flagship CMS product — Tridion R5 — an offering that has received accolades from such critics as analyst firm, Gartner. R5 comes with a myriad of standard Web CMS features, like inline editing using SiteEdit and some unique functionality such as the Translation Manager.

This Quick Take Review is an overview of SDL Tridion R5.2 with a detailed summary, full of “meat,” at the tail end of this article.

Wednesday, Jul 9 2008

It’s always good to see your name in ink — even in this day of almost everything being virtual. Such is true for open source enterprise content management provider Alfresco, whose Community Edition 2.2 was recently reviewed by Business Computing magazine receiving the Editor’s Choice Award for their June Issue.