Cmswatch News & Articles

Recently, the Real Story Group identified mid-market Microsoft .NET-based content management systems as the biggest Web CMS trend for Q3.

I was inspired to explore this topic a bit more, as industry anecdotes of organizations selecting one CMS vendor over the other based on the "We're a 100% .NET" claim sprang to mind.

Martin Aspeli of the Plone (news, site) project recently sat down and evaluated a "whole slew" of web content management systems. From there, he's digested his observations and shared them in the form of a fairly extensive writeup. While it's obviously Plone-centric, there's a lot that applies to anyone who's trying to choose what Web CMS they want to work with.

A new CMS Watch (news, site) report shows the growing importance of Enterprise Content Management in an increasingly mobile world. 

Blame the BlackBerry or the iPhone, but a generation of users are expecting all the data they are used to seeing on the desktop to be available on their mobile devices as well. This evolution in working style frames part of the 2009 ECM report from CMS Watch that highlights the move to mobile.

DotNetNuke (news, site), an open source Microsoft.Net web content management provider, offers both a community and professional version of their solution. The professional version contains some features and functionality not available in the community version, features designed for the enterprise.

The latest version of DotNetNuke Professional hits the streets today. Get the scoop on what's new in the Web CMS.

Umbraco is one of a few open source .NET web content management solutions on the market today, but it isn't the only one. DotNetNuke (news, site) is another popular open source solution for the Microsoft community and they have the stats to prove it.

A year spent studying, analyzing and summarizing search and information access technology can make anyone dizzy. Yet the folks at CMSWatch never tire of such work. Their Search & Information Access Report 2009 provides a comprehensive overview of 23 search technology products and identifies current best practices.

According to the study, customers who, in the past have had to struggle with the volatility of both vendors and technology can now enjoy a more stable market.

When Tony Byrne, founder of CMS Watch speaks, people listen. Education Web professionals, especially.

At Monday’s Education Web Professional National Conference, a packed house of web professionals serving public, private and independent schools in the Mid-Atlantic region (and beyond) convened to talk content management.