Enterprise CMS Vendors

A new CMS Watch eport 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. If you want to understand the ECM market, then CMS Watch's 436 report is a very good place to start. Featuring 10-20 page reports on each of the major ECM vendors, it is designed to help readers save money on contracts, save time when shortlisting and choosing vendors, and prevent purchasing mistakes.

Let's take another trip to the cloud, shall we? Yes, the adage may be old: to cloud or not to cloud? The open source Enterprise CMS vendor Nuxeo solved this poetic dilemma and took its document management product to the cloud. Nuxeo DM Cloud Edition, now available as SaaS, promises security and reliability, among other things.While many organizations still seem to shy away from SaaS for many obvious reasons, Nuxeo is sure that it can address “the needs of organizations that want to benefit from a proven ready-to-go ECM solution without the related IT constraints and costs.”

How do I know? Some smaller vendors are starting to peddle their CMS wares via spam. The latest was a random mass mailing I received today to one of our spam-catcher addresses pitching, "Advanced CMS for Your Site!" -- from an interactive agency I had never heard of. They wanted $3900 for their product. That could buy a lot of "enhancement" pills. But the address and phone at least pointed to what seems like a legitimate firm in Silicon Valley rather than Nigeria.

The Open Text — SharePoint saga continues, as the Enterprise CMS vendor announces new Open Text Storage Services for SharePoint. This new service lets customers store Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 content in external storage devices, reducing wasted space by automatically detecting multiple instances of the same content.

The Enterprise CMS vendor Vignette announced the availability of a new service called QuickSite. The new offering from Vignette Professional Services (VPS) is designed to do exactly what it sounds like: quickly launch web sites and simplify the Vignette Content Management (VCM) implementation process. The QuickSite service is said to be able to deliver a working implementation of Vignette “within weeks.”

SharePoint suffers, as mid-market Enterprise CMS (ECM) vendors excel, a report from CMS Watch reveals. After an evaluation of 30 leaders in the ECM industry, everyone seems to be happy except the Microsoft people — which seems to be becoming a trend. Ironically enough, it is Microsoft SharePoint that is propelling the industry forward.

US federal IT budgets continue to expand, but not evenly across departments and programs, and spending for non-security IT projects falls under unprecedented scrutiny today. This means that -- despite substantial vendor attention -- large government agencies face the same dilemma that confounds major enterprises seeking content management solutions: roll the dice on a huge implementation or tolerate a potpourri of low-cost solutions at departmental and workgroup levels. A recent article in Federal Computer Week plumbs the issue...Read the FCW piece

The Enterprise Social Software Report 2008: Networking & Collaboration Within and Beyond the Enterprise has now been officially published and is available for download.The report evaluates 20 Social Software vendors against eleven common scenarios, with 250 product screenshots across 450 pages.If you are a previous CMS Watch customer, check your in-box for a message offering a discount on this new report. Contact us with any questions or feedback.