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Google demonstrated Android 3.0 — a.k.a., Honeycomb — last week. Honeycomb is a version of their mobile operating system optimized for tablets. It works within a bigger form factor, and also packs in much more power to be able to run videos, games, and other applications better. But that’s not the point of this post. I also don’t want to get into a flame war between Android and iOS (or Android p Read More

We have released an update to our Portals and Content Integration Report.
In this release, we’ve updated the following evaluations:
Portal Vendors:  IBM WebSphere Portal Server and Plone Content Integration Vendor: Kapow Katalyst (re-branded “Web Data Server”)

All these vendors have released major new versions. In fact, although the Portal Marketplace is smaller compared to some o Read More

An omnibus platform like SharePoint presents two challenges to Microsoft in the web publishing arena:
It doesn’t employ the very latest version of .NET Long update cycles means it can fall behind functionally

Neither challenge is prohibitive, but both are potentially problematic.  In the past Redmond and its partners have showcased some interesting alternatives (as well as add-ons) to Share Read More

The tech blogosphere has been debating the apparent demise of the Java Content Repository (JCR) spec, especially after news that the open source Document Management firm Nuxeo dropped support for the standard. JCR’s popularity (something I wrote about on my personal blog) and future are always debatable, and a subject for another post.
However, it should focus you the customer on an important topi Read More

Business users want easy access to content and don’t tend to care where it gets stored. However, the mechanics of storage have always been an important consideration for IT and System Admin folks. A content management system usually stores content in a file system, a database, a custom repository, or a combination of these.
Different vendors use different approaches. Some allow you to be flexible Read More

Lassi is a yogurt drink popular in India, but you wouldn’t usually employ a washing machine to make it. Unless, of course your requirements are similar to those in this HSBC Ad. We call such differentiating requirements “scenarios.” Think of scenarios as business use cases, or high-level business objectives.
Scenarios are an important way to differentiate one product from another. Most p Read More

Of late, many WCM as well as Portal vendors are touting their capabilities for more closely aligning content management and presentation management.
Frankly, I wonder what took them so long. After all, what good is content if it cannot be delivered and consumed? In my opinion, aligning content management and delivery should always have been a key use case.
Nevertheless, better late than never. In Read More

When you think of a smart phone or when someone tells you about multi-channel delivery, chances are that you are visualizing a cell phone, a PDA, or at the maximum, a tablet such as an iPad or Samsung’s Tab.
Less obvious are the myriad non-PC devices that can access websites today, including mobile phones of various sizes and capabilities, eReaders, Netbooks, and IPTV devices. Some specific exampl Read More

Offshoring, along with its many variants like rightshoring and nearshoring, is a heavily debated topic. Like anything else, there are advantages as well as challenges that need to be addressed if you want to make it successful.
Many of those challenges are common across all IT projects, as well as applicable to domestic outsourcing. However, ECM offshoring efforts have certain unique requirements Read More

Content integration vendor Kapow made a couple of announcements this week, mostly related to re-branding and enhancements to their data integration platform. The key aspects of these announcements are:
The new release is called “Kapow Katalyst.” While the company’s PR and marketing describes it a new platform, it’s really a new version of their Web Data Server with enhancements mostly r Read More