Red Herring News & Articles

The Red Herring list of the most impressive worldwide 100 private tech companies features some familiar names to the CMS crowd.

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At a time when publishers, print and web alike, struggle to stay relevant while providing the means to produce, publish and profit, Mediaspectrum sees itself as a solution for evolving social media initiatives. And Red Herring agrees. The Red Herring 100 recognizes the most innovative private technology companies based in North America, of which Mediaspectrum was included.

Mediaspectrum provides a web-based service solution aimed at addressing all aspects of advertising, content, community and e-commerce. Their Media 2.0 platform helps media companies, from the Washington Post to the Trinity Mirror, increase revenues, manage editorial content and streamline workflows.

When it comes to dancing with hippos and romancing thousands of college girls, the company that gets the job done is Bluenog (news, site). Yes, the team behind the ECM solution Bluenog ICE, which is built on Hippo open source technology and was recently announced as the management solution of choice for Wellesley College’s website, has certainly been attracting a lot of attention lately.

On the heels of their Startup 50 ranking from InformationWeek comes another award, this time from Red Herring. The media company’s editorial team announced that their list of the top 100 Technology Companies in North America contains winners drawn from a pool of 1,000.

Each year, evaluations are reportedly made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration.

“Of the thousands of companies that have submitted their entries we were tasked with choosing the technologies that are making the biggest impact this year,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “Bluenog is one of those exceptional companies that can make open source tick in the enterprise with its advanced collaborative solution.”

The list of companies that rocked Red Herring’s boat this year included some other familiar faces as well, like Clearwell, Meebo and Acquia. To see them all, check out Red Herring’s website here.

Gouda in the Netherlands is well known for its delicious cheese, and, in the world of content management systems, Gouda is also known for O3Spaces, a fairly young, upbeat company known for its groupware for education and industry.

O3Spaces has just released the latest version of their Document Management and Document Collaboration suite O3Spaces Workplace 2.2.1.

Red Herring has announced that Nuxeo, known for their Open Source Enterprise CMS, has received a Red Herring 100 Europe award for being one of the top 100 companies leading the future of technology. The annual awards are bestowed upon the top 100 private technology companies from the EMEA region.