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Beware shortcuts when mobilizing existing web sites

Apoorv Durga — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:51:23 +0000

Have you tried accessing a web site from your mobile device and felt disappointed? I get that feeling often and wonder what it takes for site owners to think of “mobile first”?
One of the fastest ways to mobilize your existing websites is to license special mobile middleware tools. These tools access source content on your existing site but then apply a mobile-friendly layout to it…

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New Digital Asset Management Maturity Model

Apoorv Durga — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:51:22 +0000

I wanted to hit a century (my 100th blog post) with a really nice topic. And what could be better than this?
I’m excited and proud to announce the new Digital Asset Management Maturity Model (DAM3). Its a collaborative effort between us, Optimity Advisors, DAM Foundation and Henry Stewart. I’m especially happy because personally for me, it was a rewarding experience to work with some of the world’…

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Oracle announces new version of Fatwire — a.k.a., WebCenter Sites

Apoorv Durga — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:51:17 +0000

Last week, Oracle announced a new version 11gR1 of WebCenter Sites. This is the erstwhile FatWire product, “Oracalized” — a bit — for the first time since the acquisition last year.
So how far has Oracle progressed? Well, there’s a new contributor UI, a new page builder, deprecation of SOAP-based Web Services, dropped support for JBoss application server, and some other changes…

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FT.com bets on HTML5 in lieu of native apps

Apoorv Durga — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:51:09 +0000

The esteemed Financial Times is ready to pull the plug on its iOS native apps and instead replace them with an HTML5-based app.
Reportedly, the so called “Apple Tax” — whereby developers pay 30% of revenues to Apple — along with lack of access to customer data, are the main reasons prompting FT.com to follow others (including Amazon who did the same thing with their Kindle app).
Many a…

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Google, Dropbox, Box, SharePoint, and others battle in the cloud

Apoorv Durga — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:51:06 +0000

Google finally released its much rumored Google Drive, a new competitor in the increasingly crowded cloud-based file sharing and sync marketplace. As with all things Google, the Drive announcement generated a huge amount of hype across the blogosphere and twitterverse.
Many commentators compare Drive with Dropbox and to some extent Microsoft’s SkyDrive and Apple’s iCloud. However, you should remem…

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2012 Portals and Content Integration Market Analysis

Apoorv Durga — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:51:00 +0000

We have just released a new Advisory Paper, “2012 Portals and Content Integration Market Analysis.” This briefing offers a snapshot of trends in the current marketplace, as well as a comparative analysis of the relative risks associated with each portal and content integration vendor.
Portal technology remains quite relevant in an enterprise context, and the portal marketplace is not goi…

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Start Your Content Migration Planning Early

Apoorv Durga — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:50:51 +0000

Many IT projects require some sort of content migration, but we often find that many customers give scant attention to migration planning. It’s almost always considered an activity that can wait until the end.
We recommend that you make Content Migration a part of your overall project and start planning for it from the very outset. This will allow you analyze your content and make improvements to…

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Multiple Portals or One Single Portal?

Apoorv Durga — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:50:47 +0000

In the good old days, when your firm’s Enterprise Portal was a “gateway to the world,” the thinking was that you needed to standardize on one single Portal platform, and perhaps even on single enterprise portal instance.
However, as we all know, that’s not really very practical (both for technical and organizational reasons), and multiple portal platforms have always proliferated within…

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Should you go with a Portal or Web CMS?

Apoorv Durga — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:50:42 +0000

This is the most common question that my colleagues and I encounter from our customers who are in the process of evaluating options for building a web property.
The reason is not difficult to find.
Many Portal tools have built some basic capabilities for managing content. In the same way, many Web Content Management tools have built capabilities for managing web site experience and thus evolving i…

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Portals Research version 9.1 has updates to IBM WebSphere and Liferay Evaluations

Apoorv Durga — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:50:33 +0000

We’ve just updated our Enterprise Portals research with updates to our reviews of IBM WebSphere and Liferay.
Within the Portals marketplace, IBM and Liferay seem to be the ones that most frequently appear on customer short lists. But that also means they get scrutinized much more based on frequent feedback we get from our customers. Based on this, we’ve updated our reviews of these two products in…

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