Latest Industry news covering various Enterprise Content Management technologies.
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7/24/2008No easy upgrade for Sitecore customers
While Web CMS vendor Sitecore has been busy promoting the new user interface in its recently released Version 6, the company has attracted quite a bit of criticism from existing customers for the new version's lack of an easy upgrade path. In a recent....

7/23/2008A new (and wearable) Content Technologies Subway Map
A new season brings an updated vendor map: We added a Yellow Line -- for XML & Component Content Management vendors, and reflected some other station changes. And now, if you like what you see, you and your wall can wear it. Our new store ....

7/22/2008Web UI development: inherently slow?
In a thoughtful post at JavaLobby, developer Ali Loghmani poses a simple but important question: Why is Web UI development so slow? Here, Loghmani is not just talking about the creation and placement of AJAX widgets on web pages. He is talking about full-cycle....

7/22/2008Oracle doesn't eat its own blog food
Via numerous acquisitions, Oracle has built up a formidable collection of products that they sell for Portals, Content Management, Web 2.0, and other content technologies. As a result, customers find considerable overlap in functionality and often there....

7/22/2008Start flossing your content now
Nobody likes content migrations. But they're inevitable. Like trips to the dentist. You can perhaps reduce your pain by reading this nifty little white paper, "Content migration: options and strategies," by James Robertson of StepTwo ....

7/21/2008eXo updates product suite and continues rapid growth
Flying below the radar for most North American analysts, French-based commercial open source portal vendor eXo has been very busy recently. Earlier this month marked the release of new versions of their key products, including eXo Portal, which we cover in....

7/21/2008When a Wiki package gets too real
In talking to wiki users, we find a wide range of sophistication. Some are quite content with the simplistic "edit this page" features you can now find in most Web CMS and Social Software suites, while other customers seek more advanced features....

7/18/2008Talking about Social Software
I recently had a long and wide-ranging interview with IT Business Edge on the topic of Social Software technologies. The intrepid reporter, Ann All, transcribed nearly the whole discussion verbatim -- a rarity these days! -- and something any analyst....

7/18/2008Infrastructure Updates for SharePoint
Through the SharePoint product team's MSDN blog, Microsoft announced that it had released a significant infrastructure update for SharePoint (and related technologies like Project Server that leverages SharePoint components). The update seems to primarily....

7/17/2008DAM industry rollup
I recently wrote an article for DOCUMENT Magazine summarizing the state of the digital asset management industry. Readers of our DAM Report 2008 will recognize these as excerpts from the Report's executive summary, but if you're looking for something to put in....