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Random Thoughts about SIs and IT industry

Apoorv — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:41:25 +0000

I am thinking of reviving this blog yet again. I’ve been part of the System Integrator industry for a long time and have seen it from close quarters. I believe there is much hype, too many myths as well as a lot of FUD about SIs. I also think there’s a serious lack of "balanced" [...]

What’s next for the mobile Internet in India

Apoorv — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:05:00 +0000

Last week, I attended two conferences in Delhi. Coincidentally, both of them were on similar topics. The first one, organized by Indian trade body, NASSCOM was about mobile Internet and appstores, while the second one was about mobile applications (alt...

Beware the WEM trap

Apoorv — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:39:00 +0000

You may have heard about a new TLA called "WEM." W and M stand for Web and Management respectively while E refers to Engagement or Experience, depending on who's talking. Many WCM folks love the new acronym and declare WEM as the next WCM (WCM++ ...

Microsoft and the CMIS standard – What it means for you

Apoorv — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:42:00 +0000

Microsoft has released support for the recently ratified CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) standard -- joining the ranks of many other vendors that now support CMIS in some form. This support comes in the form of a connector in ...

Adobe To Acquire Day – First Take-ECM Perspective

Apoorv — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:57:00 +0000

Adobe Systems today announced their intent to acquire Day Software which we evaluate in-depth in our Web Content Management and Digital Asset Management research. We've seen Adobe featured in many content management RFPs, and although th...

JackBe’s App Store is interesting but not new

Apoorv — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:59:00 +0000

JackBe, one of the Mashup vendors we cover in our Portals and Content Integration Research, announced version 3.0 of their Mashup product Presto. The new version features enhancements to their existing, mostly visual tools, some of which we had pointed...

Red Hat Releases JBoss EPP 5

Apoorv — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:06:00 +0000

Although released a couple of weeks back, Red Hat made a formal announcement of the release of their new JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform (EPP 5) on Thursday at the Red Hat summit in Boston. As we have mentioned before, this release is a completely re-...

Update to Portals Research

Apoorv — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:48:00 +0000

We've just released an update to our Portals evaluation research. Along with updates to the individual portal vendor evaluations, we have expanded the scope of our research to include a new category of related solutions that enable you to integrate and...

Adapting Your Content Management Platform for Mobile Delivery

Apoorv — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:49:00 +0000

One of our predictions for this year was about the rise of mobile as a delivery channel -- much more closely integrated with your content technologies. Most vendors provide some sort of mechanism for delivering content to mobile channels, and most of t...

Gadgets and Mashups – together but separate

Apoorv — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:37:00 +0000

When I talk to people about Mashups, I find many of you are really thinking of iGoogle-type, dashboard-style applications, assembled using Gadgets and Widgets. This is an accurate visualization in many cases. Yet it's important to remember there ...