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the Free CMSWire NewsletterNormally in this space we look back over the current month and forward into the next month, keeping you up to date with the open source CMS and other related projects that might interest you. Like last year, we're taking a look back at 2011 and into 2012 for some extra insights into what's to come.
The Respondents
We sent out four prompts for questions to our usual lists of F/OSS suspects. Out of those, 18 projects responded. These projects classify themselves as:
- Customer Experience / Web CMS / Channel Optimization / Analytics (74%)
- Digital Asset Management (16%)
- Information Management / Document Management / Records Management (26%)
- Collaboration / Social Business / Innovation Management (53%)
- Intranet / Portal (34%)
- Enterprise Search (10%)
Projects were allowed to choose more than one answer, for those compelled to do the math at home. You can see the raw numbers below.
How the responding projects classify their products.
Looking Back at 2011
Sometimes the path forward is clearer when you take a moment to reflect on the past. To that end, some of our questions centered around 2011. When asked what two things each project was most proud of achieving in 2011, 14 respondents answered:
- Alfresco Software (news, site): The Cloud-scale Alfresco 4.0 release, and the new Alfresco iOS mobile product.
- Composite C1 (news, site): Successfully changing the product strategy to free open source, yet making a profit, and becoming the .NET open source CMS with the best user and developer ratings.
- DotNetNuke (news, site): DotNetNuke 6 completely revamped the user interface, which "now rivals anything on the market today," producing a 40% jump in downloads for the free Community Edition and a corresponding growth for the commercial business. Also, delivery of a fully mobile-enabled version of DotNetNuke.
- Drupal (news, site): Drupal growth within large enterprises, and the adoption of Drupal 7.
- eZ Publish (news, site): Integration of intelligent web analysis, and the personalization and recommendation engine.
- Hippo CMS (news, site): The channel manager (multisite, multilingual, and multi-device), and the REST interface, CMIS, and open API.
- HWIOS (news, site): Adding a URL-based websocket protocol, and a realtime multiuser web text editor.
- Jahia Web CMS (news, site): Releasing Jahia 6.5, the addition of new large projects, and high profile customers.
- mojoPortal (news, site): Good mobile support and significant sales revenue growth for add-on products.
- Nuxeo (news, site): Achieving a great user experience, and creating great developer tools to build apps users love.
- ocPortal (news, site): First CMS to implement schema.org and big usability improvements.
- Umbraco (news, site): More than 100% annual growth, and remaining committed to their principles while growing.
- WeWebU (news, site): Winning some large customers.
- XOOPS (news, site): They've created a strong team of contributors that will carry them into the future, and a standard module GUI that will be used for all new modules and the most important existing ones.
Plans for 2012
Many of our questions centered around plans for 2012. When asked about geographical growth targets for the next year, North America (79% of respondents) and Europe (84% of respondents) were the two highest priority areas by far. The largest medium priority targets were South America (61% of respondents), Asia Pacific/Oceania (53% of respondents), and the Middle East (42% of respondents).
In particular after establishing their European headquarters in Amsterdam in July 2011, DotNetNuke expects to grow their commercial business in Europe at a faster pace than North America in 2012. Alfresco specifically identified Japan, India and Australia as high priority.
When asked how they plan to enhance their products, the highest priority objectives each at 58% of respondents were:
- Better Mobile Device and/or Multi-Channel Support
- Improve General Usability
- Cloud Support
Other high priority targets at 50% of respondents were Additional APIs / Integration / Platform Features and SaaS Options. Alfresco specifically identified mobile (especially tablet) and the Cloud as their highest priorities, including usability and performance as related to Cloud and SaaS.
When asked specifically what the top two goals are for their projects in 2012, 14 respondents answered:
- Alfresco: Become a key enabler of enterprise tablet rollouts and offer a successful Cloud service that connects to the Enterprise.
- Composite C1: Make web CMS more popular via SaaS and "starter wizards," and become the most chosen .NET open source CMS when evaluated by web professionals.
- DotNetNuke: Social collaboration and deeper Cloud integration.
- Drupal: Mobile and Drupal distributions (vertical solutions).
- eZ Publish: Achieve an outstanding user experience "in all dimensions," and enhanced interoperability as a content platform.
- Hippo: Integrate Apache Rave (a new web and social mashup engine) into Hippo CMS, and add context-aware personalization focused on multichannel behavioral targeting, monitoring, conversion and reporting.
- HWIOS: Abstract HWIOS into a smaller, easy-to-use library, and create several independent high quality applications around this library.
- Jahia: Offer a collaboration feature as JahiApp, and add additional mobile and multichannel integration.
- mojoPortal: Expand adoption and create more add-on products to build revenue.
- Nuxeo: Broaden adoption and distribution, and offer Nuxeo as a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
- ocPortal: Continue to lower barriers to building sophisticated websites, and make management of sophisticated websites easy, safe, and fun for small businesses.
- Umbraco: Release Umbraco version 5 and Umbraco as a service.
- WeWebU: Achieve broader adoption.
- XOOPS: Refactor the core framework and update it for PHP 5.4, and consolidate existing modules to convert them to a standard GUI.
We also asked whether the projects anticipated making changes to their development process, or their organization, in 2012. Among the 15 who answered the question, 60% said yes, with many offering explanations:
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