In our recently released Web Content Management Vendor Evaluations version 20.2 we’ve updated our research on two interesting vendors – Hannon Hill and TerminalFour.On the surface, they seem quite similar. Both are based in Java, both endeavor to release simple editorial UIs, and — perhaps most importantly — both of have established strong footholds in the Higher Education segment. … Continue Reading
Web Experience Management (WEM) is the latest buzz word in the WCM marketplace, having been adopted — at least in theory — by vendors small and large. I recently took a closer look at two of the larger vendors: FatWire Content Server (Oracle Sites after being acquired by Oracle) and OpenText WEM (the former Vignette WCM)…. Continue Reading
Having worked with a broad spectrum of technology customers over the years, I’ve come to see broad common patterns in the mistakes that most large enterprises make — be it during the technology selection process, RFI/RFP process, or project execution itself….. Continue Reading
I was recently updating the Nuxeo evaluation in our Document & Records Management Research, and the biggest news here is that the open source ECM vendor has replaced its repository layer. The company has replaced its Apache Jackrabbit JCR repository with the “Nuxeo VCS” … Continue Reading
The Joomla! open source WCM community today released version 1.7, just 6 months after the release of 1.6. Perhaps because the development team has been busy stabilizing a 1.6 trunk that was packed with many new features, version 1.7 does not offer much of significance for end users.
The biggest news for now is that version 1.7 represents the first to formally segregate a base layer — the former “framework” now known as Joomla! Platform — from the higher-level Content Management System (CMS) layer … Continue Reading
