— By Apoorv Durga —-
Web Content Management (WCM or sometimes just CMS) space has been evolving. There are new content management as well as content delivery requirements to cater to the requirements of a more Omnichannel world. Different vendors are addressing this need differently, depending on how they themselves have evolved. I often see an interesting argument playing out. Traditional … Read more
Recently, I did this webinar on evolution of Content Management Systems. I’ve been covering different Content Management Marketplaces (ECM, WCM etc) for a long time now. So I went back to my reports from 2000s and looked at what the CM/ECM trends were in those years. Here are some slides from that webinar on how … Read more
Even though portal-like capabilities remain relevant for building some digital experiences, RSG has discontinued covering Portal technology as a separate marketplace as the vendors themselves have largely folded into the Web Content & Experience Management (WCM) space. So, we’ve expanded the scope of RSG’s WCM vendor evaluations, both with a new review… This post first appeared on … Read more
Personalization has always been a key aspect in almost all kinds of digital experiences. Some examples of commonly found personalisation use cases are: allowing users to customise their dashboards or user interfaces, showing content based on explicit user-defined criteria, showing content based on implicit criteria or even that based on user behaviour. All these required … Read more
Whether one is implementing a new system or moving from one system to another, content migration is always an important aspect. Each situation is unique and so each migration scenario will have its own roadmap. However, there are some common factors that are present in each migration and can determine how long will the migration last. … Read more
Forrester recently named Fatwire a Leader in their WCM for external Sites Quadrant. And the folks at Fatwire have already called two of their fellow-quads (for the lack of a better term), Interwoven and Vignette as legacy WCM products! Incidentally, Interwoven sits nicely in the Leader quadrant in the same report and was also named the fastest growing … Read more
These are some observations, in no particular order. I will possibly post some “more sensible” posts on specific topics later. It was first time for me at EMC World and I thought the focus was much more on storage and infrastructure as compared to content management. They did certainly much better though in terms of … Read more
After Autonomy/Interwoven and Oracle/Sun news, here comes the third big news of the year. If Unilever can have multiple soaps and GM can have multiple car models, why can’t a Content Management vendor have multiple products? OT’s acquisition of Vignette points to this increasing “commoditization” of Content Management marketplace. There may be a lot of overlaps in … Read more
It was a usual hectic day at work when I read about this sudden interesting development of Interwoven to be acquired by Autonomy. You can read more about it at CMS Watch and CMS Wire. I felt a bit sad – Interwoven was one of the few pure play CMS vendors and pioneered many of the Content … Read more
Okay so another year comes to an end and while we welcome the new year, here’s a look at some of the themes (in a random order) of the year gone by that might have an impact on the Content Technologies next year. Verticalized Applications Content Management Systems as horizontal solutions have been there for … Read more