Content Management Matters ™

The EMC World 2008 event just wrapped up in wholesome Las Vegas and the content management industry eyes were ogling both the table top dancers and the (not so?) seductive CM story EMC was peddling.

CMS Watch has a new report out that many organizations are sure to want to read. It's called The XML & Component Content Management Report 2008 and it's review of the leading Component Content Management vendors and XML tools on the market today. With all the conversations happening around DITA today and the number of vendors coming out with XML-based solutions, you need to understand the market well to know how to work within it.

Educational web managers are often lonely, misunderstood geeks who are crucial members of the communications staff but get unfairly lumped in with IT.

These dedicated souls must synthesize content for a variety of audiences (faculty, administration, parents, alumni, students) while also single-handedly updating calendars, uploading forms, and managing schedules.

Have you made that investment in SharePoint 2007 that you've been thinking about for the last year? Or do you already have it and just aren't sure what to do with it? Independent analyst CMS Watch has just released their latest report entitled: The SharePoint Report 2008: A Comprehensive Evaluation of SharePoint in the Enterprise.

Well known for their independent and objective evaluation of content management and associated technologies, CMS Watch provides us with a review of SharePoint that helps us understand where and how it best fits -- or doesn't -- into the enterprise and how if we aren't careful, SharePoint will become the next Lotus Notes.

Everyone should know who CMS Watch is by now. They provide independent analyst reviews on content technologies. Well every so often their creative graphic juices get flowing and they develop their Map of the Content Technology Vendor Landscape.

According to our friends over at CMS Watch, SaaS Web-based CMS Vendors are on the rise in North America. They discussed their recent research coming out their release of The Web CMS Report 2008 at the AIIM Conference this week.

Heads up North American CMSers, CMS Watch will be front and center at the AIIM International Exposition & Conference, the granddaddy of all content and information events in North America.

CMS Watch will be leading a conference session designed to help IT professionals discover how to turn content into a powerful business tool.

According to the analyst firm CMS Watch, enterprise content management vendors are failing to meet the security requirements of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).

They claim that, after evaluating a number of ECM technologies, these products are "lacking key security pre-requisites" and are "ill-equipped to meet the security requirements of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)".

Ouch! say the big boys leaning forward in their leather massage chairs.

It is that time of year again isn't it? Predictions up the wazu...from every walk of analyst. CMSWatch is one of the first to spout it's predictions for 2008 on everything from Google, to the downfall of SharePoint, to the rise of the Search engine.

In the 2008 version of the Enterprise Search Report, our friends at CMSWatch evaluated 18 major enterprise search offerings and the biggest loser is...

A recent report by CMS Watch finds that organizations are now considering vendor commitment to their customer base and product development paths to be more critical, due to recent shake-ups in the web analytics industry.

While the Software-as-a-Service model has been a hot topic recently, the SaaS model for enterprise search is on the decline.

Our friends at CMS Watch stir up the proverbial hornet's nest by suggesting that while other enterprise cms vendors are actively updating and maintaining their respective Web CMS offerings, IBM's Workplace Web Content Management (WWCM) product is languishing behind the times.

It's that time of year: when CMS Watch cancels all home leave, cages the writers and hides its booze; then whips them mercilessly until they've compiled the authoritative yearly statement of where Web CMS has been for the past year, where it stands, and where it is going.

The result is the 12th edition of its renowned Web CMS Report, which comes in Standard, Enterprise, and European editions.

Aimed at those seeking a Web CMS solution, this document reviews major and minor players in depth with ample visual aids like charts and screenshots.

Alan Pelz-Sharpe, CMS Watch's leading enterprise content management analyst, recently spoke of the SaaS ECM Dilemma.

To quote, "I have no problem telling buyers that SaaS may be worth considering, but actually going as far as recommending they pursue a SaaS option is still something of a stretch for me."