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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 pieces including Adobe Contribute and LiveCycle, they were never taken seriously as a Content Management player. An OEM deal with Alfresco a few yea Read More

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 out in our last review of Presto. However, the greatest focus of this upgrade has been addition of a new "App Store" functionality that a Read More

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-architected platform built on GateIn, the portal they jointly developed with eXo.   The platform has many new features such as: Plug-in b Read More

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 aggregate content from multiple sources. While these are not as feature rich as Portal products, they do enable you to create "Portal-like&quo Read More

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 them will tell you they support mobile delivery. However, like all other features, the devil lies in the details. The extent to which these vendors s Read More

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 are really two different pieces here: One is related to back-end content integration and the ability to access content from multiple sources, while Read More

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 concerns raised about transparency and governance within Open Source Matters (OSM), the not-for-profit that manages the Joomla! project. However, with a Read More

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 technology platform can help companies meet their compliance needs. To quote from the article, Most businesses assume that compliance costs money and does n Read More

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 a migration effort with the rigor and discipline that they normally would for a software project. The result is often a failed migration. You should Read More

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 last few weeks has seen a drama, albeit not a Bollywood one, unfold. It all started when the IPL chairman cum commissioner Mr. Modi fired the first s Read More