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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 research. We've seen Adobe featuring in many Content Management RFPs and although they had some of the necessary ...

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 ...

Joomla! Upgrade – Pros and Cons

Apoorv — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:57:00 +0000

More than two years after it's last major version was released, the Web CMS project Joomla! has announced the beta version of its next major release (1.6). For an open source project, that's a lot of time between two versions. There have also been conc...

Compliance and the Role of Enterprise Content Management

Apoorv — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:35:00 +0000

Alan and I recently wrote this piece (requires free registration) for CFO Connect, a thought-leadership magazine for CFOs and other senior finance professionals operating in India. The idea was to introduce people to Compliance and how an ECM technolog...

Treating Content Migration Like a Real Project

Apoorv — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:14:00 +0000

I was reading the excellent Web Site Migration Handbook by our good friend and colleague David Hobbs -- and a quick Twitter exchange with him got me thinking about the importance of testing and QA in migration. Most organizations do not undertake ...

Cricket, Lies, and….Content Management

Apoorv — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:02:00 +0000

They say nothing unites us Indians more than Cricket. Mash that up with Bollywood, big money, politics, as well as sleaze, and you get the multi-billion dollar Indian Premier League (IPL) -- an irony given that India is a land of Mahatama Gandhi. The l...