WCM solutions

There are a few simple web content management systems available today. Cushy CMS, Clover and Surreal are three super simple systems that come to mind when we look at PageLime. PageLime is a hosted web content management solution that let's you very easily add content management to your website without making a lot changes. Just give them FTP access to your site, mark up your pages with some CSS classes and you are off to the races. Add Content Management QuicklyYou may have built your website thinking you didn't need — or want — content management. But, like most, you have found that the need to keep updating your content to keep it fresh and relevant is becoming a bit of a pain in the you know what.

BlueModus today unveiled its Content Management System (CMS) solution designed to increase flexibility and scalability of website content control, from simple editing capabilities to enterprise-level solutions. "More than ever, content control and change responsiveness are vital to growing businesses of all sizes," said BlueModus President David Baumgarten. "Our custom-tailored CMS solution takes web content control to new heights. "Our CMS is fully configurable, and brings website control back in-house, with truly limitless possibilities. When we determine what our customers want, we build it – and make it work." BlueModus, which recently designed customized CMS solutions for Cisco and Bayer Pharmaceuticals, provides ongoing training and support services. Catering to the digital and interactive professional, as well as the non-technical user, BlueModus' CMS solution provides businesses and its partners with the ability to develop a tiered support system, ensuring speed of implementation, rapid development, and the ability to evolve.

Open Text said it’s a done deal. The planned acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Vignette (worth approximately US$ 321 million) has been completed late yesterday following a shareholders’ meeting where the voting and approval took place.While Vignette is busy nostalgizing, Open Text says it’s working on the strategic aspects of what may come next. Let’s not forget that Open Text already has a WCM-centric group called Open Text Web Solutions. Offering an even broader range of (quite similar) products is going to take some brain activity. Then again, this would not be the first quilting exercise for Open Text.

Open Text™ recently announced availability of the latest release of Open Text Web Solutions. Available to customers now, this new release offers a number of additional enhancements to what is already a core strength of Open Text Web Solutions: Helping customers translate, manage and synchronize multiple websites worldwide. Web Solutions is an integral component of the Open Text ECM Suite, the industry's most comprehensive suite of content services used by tens of thousands of organizations worldwide.

“The Web content management market is mature and expanding,” says Gartner’s latest MarketScope for Web Content Management (MacComascaigh, Gilbert, Bell, Shegda, Andrews). “Vendor consolidation has fallen (slowed)… functions such as workflow, ease of use and multi-site management are no longer differentiating factors; they are the norm.”   Findings:   Open source solutions (OSS, represents only 3% of the total WCM market) are increasingly stable, robust and growing in market shareWeb 2.0 phenomenon is driving WCM innovation

Real Madrid is one of the world’s largest professional soccer teams, so it's no surprise it wanted to create a rich, personal experience for its millions of fans across the globe.Real Madrid delivers a vast amount of content, including text, photos, audio and video through a mix of online, television, radio and mobile channels. It needed a reliable, easy-to-use solution to manage all of its online content and to provide international fans with timely news updates and compelling, personalized content on their team—delivered through the right channels, in the right language.

Ingeniux OnDemand hosted web content management solution now offered in three new virtual server hosting packages. Ingeniux opens second data center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ingeniux Corporation, the trusted provider of enterprise 2.0 Web content management software, announced three new software-as-a-service packages for Ingeniux OnDemand, a leading hosted web content management solution. Ingeniux has also opened a second hosting facility co-located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

WCM (Web content management) technology enables content-centric applications and the administration of multiple sites through one framework. Used with permission from Integrated Solutions magazine

As the information management industry struggles to find common solutions to imaging, asset management, document management, and WCM,AIIM continues its transition to an "Enterprise Content Management" association. AIIM's 2002 conference in San Francisco -- debuting the association's more contemporary focus -- was pretty good. AIIM 2003 also looks promising. Check it out;the call for speakers is already available...Submit speaking proposals here

The slow but steady maturation of the Web CMS marketplace finds vendors continuing to develop industry-specific solutions. This phenomenon does not have the depth you would see if you were looking for an imaging and document management system, where you could find numerous resellers intimately acquainted with your industry. Nevertheless, the ongoing development of vertical WCM applications should be welcome news for solutions buyers. CMS vendor Ektron has been quietly developing specialized solutions and now has offerings for various industries, including the rather active markets in higher education and healthcare. It's probably no coincidence that Ektron has been one of the few CMS vendors to develop a significant reseller channel...

I'm very pleased to be returning to cmf2007, the "Third International Web Conference," this November. I'll be teaching on WCM, and CMS Watch is leading a track on selecting and implementing the various technologies we cover. You might be interested to know that noted guru BJ Fogg of "Persuasive Computing" and "Web Credibility" fame will be keynoting the conference and also teaching about a new framework for simplicity that he has developed. I can think of few things more important to explore in our industry than how to simplify: simplify requirements, solutions, and especially, user interfaces. Unfortunately, Fogg is teaching at the same time as me, so I'll miss his class, but you should consider it...

The acquisition was perhaps predictable, since the two companies have had a partnership for 3 years now. But neither company invested terribly much in working together and the two product sets don't closely interoperate, so to that extent the timing is a bit of a surprise. I think RedDot got a good deal: €44M in cash for a revenue stream of €15M (in 2004). For Hummingbird's part, the company needed to add a WCM solution to its product offerings, and RedDot has a growing profile, especially in North America. Prospective customers of either solution (Hummingbird's heavyweight DM and RM vs. RedDot's mid-market WCM and DM) should not expect major changes. However, existing RedDot customers should be prepared for the more aggressive upselling and maintenance negotiations that come with working with a public company.