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Alternatives for Building Portal-Like Applications

Apoorv Durga — Tue, 03 May 2011 15:04:00 +0000

If you ask “What is a Portal” on twitter, you will likely get numerous replies depending on tweeples’ point of view. For some, their Intranet is a Portal, while for others a public search engine is their Portal, and for still some others their own website is a Portal. Instead of arguing about the correct definition of Portal, we believe all of these scenarios (and many others as well) re Read More

Vignette RIP 1995 – 2011 — and what that means for you

Apoorv Durga — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:11:00 +0000

This week, OpenText released version 8.1 of their WCM product. It features new media management capabilities, better support for mobile devices (result of their weComm acquisition) and some other enhancements. But more importantly, they dropped “Vignette” from the name of their WCM and Portal products. In fact they completely re-branded the names: The WCM product is now named " Read More

Mobile brings site-building tools back from the dead

Apoorv Durga — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:04:00 +0000

If you ever used primitive site-builder services like Geocities or Tripod, you probably remember how you could select from a set of pre-defined templates, add a guest book, and embed some dancing gifs or a free jingle, to create simple (mostly personal) web pages.
Since a mobile site is the new “in thing” now, many of these services that were popular in early days are making a come back Read More

Should You Use SharePoint 2010 for Public Websites?

Apoorv Durga — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:54:00 +0000

We get asked this question a lot.
As always, the specific answer depends on your particular requirements. Nevertheless, based on our customer research and recent product CMS selection experience, we can generalize that SharePoint remains poorly suited for most external web publishing environments, even in its most recent 2010 edition.
In an advisory briefing for our Web CMS and SharePoint su Read More

Portal Software is Dead — Really?

Apoorv Durga — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:30:00 +0000

You may hear from pundits that enterprise portal technology has become obsolete. The story line goes like this: Portal tools put heavy demand on infrastructure, are complex to implement, and can prove too inflexible for today’s agile use cases.
But is portal technology really dying, and should you still care about it? My answer: the challenges that a portal tool addresses (or claims to addre Read More

OpenText acquires mobility vendor weComm

Apoorv Durga — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:09:00 +0000

OpenText continues its long acquisition spree. After acquiring Metastorm last month, it has now acquired UK-based weComm, a vendor in the mobility space. weComm’s “Wave” platform allows you to create apps that are supported on most mobile handsets without having to worry about individual operating systems.

Unlike some other OpenText acquisitions, this one has minimum overlap with the ve Read More

A more skeptical look at new repository and portal initiatives

Apoorv Durga — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:07:00 +0000

This seems to be a season of “proposals” by open source vendors to attach pieces of their code to a larger foundation. It sounds promising, but the benefits for you the customer could remain far off.
Earlier last month, ECM vendor Nuxeo proposed to contribute its Content Repository to the Eclipse Foundation. This after they dropped support for Java Content Repository (JCR), a repos Read More

2011 Portal & Content Integration Market Analysis

Apoorv Durga — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:06:00 +0000

Today we published our 2011 Portal and Content Migration Market Analysis. It also includes a “Cross-Check” chart that visually charts risks and opportunities. The briefing is available to our Portals stream subscribers.
Recall the many predictions that “mainframes were dying” — yet they never died. Nor have enterprise portals.
The Portals marketplace is characterized by Read More

Antenna Software Acquires Volantis Systems

Apoorv Durga — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:26:00 +0000

Unlike most acquisitions in the Content Technology Marketplaces that we cover, this one actually seems like one in which there is not much overlap between two vendors’ offerings. Antenna Software, a provider of mobile applications mainly for enterprises, acquired Volantis Systems, a company focused on delivering content to mobile browsers, concentrated more on the consumer Internet.
As Read More

Android Tablet or iPad

Apoorv Durga — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:42:00 +0000

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