Best part about driving on chaotic roads of Delhi (and India) is that you will never get lost. Okay you will – but there are so many people out there that you can always stop anywhere and ask for directions. But if like me, you don’t like stopping every 100 meters to ask an auto [...]

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I’ve recently set up my home office and it was quite an experience. There were quite a few checklists on the web but they were really not suitable for Indian conditions (are we the only ones who use a UPS? ). So here’s what worked for me. Your mileage may be different.

Laptop and/or desktop: I [...]

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Happy New Year everyone. Here’s wishing you a great twenty-ten.
I have renamed this blog to just “Random Thoughts”. Of course, i’d still be writing about Content Technologies but on the CMS Watch blog now.
In fact, I’ve been enjoying my work at CMS Watch, where I cover Portals, Enterprise Content Management and Web Content Management marketplaces. [...]

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Well, like all good things, my vacation is over. However, for a change, I am actually looking forward to next week - I am joining CMS Watch and would be starting work on Monday, October 12th.
I have been a fan of CMS Watch since its inception and owe much of my current thinking & knowledge to CMS Watch. So [...]

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Today was my last day in Wipro.
I’ve had pretty good time working with a great group (Portals and Content Management or the PCM practice)  - got opportunities to play multiple roles, worked with some cool people, made many good friends, worked with great managers and learned a lot in the process.
However, it was time to explore something [...]

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Whether one is implementing a new system or moving from one system to another, content migration is always an important aspect. Each situation is unique and so each migration scenario will have its own roadmap. However, there are some common factors that are present in each migration and can determine how long will the migration last. [...]

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Forrester recently named Fatwire a Leader in their WCM for external Sites Quadrant. And the folks at Fatwire have already called two of their fellow-quads (for the lack of a better term), Interwoven and Vignette as legacy WCM products! Incidentally, Interwoven sits nicely in the Leader quadrant in the same report and was also named the fastest growing [...]

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These are some observations, in no particular order. I will possibly post some “more sensible” posts on specific topics later.

It was first time for me at EMC World and I thought the focus was much more on storage and infrastructure as compared to content management. They did certainly much better though in terms of integrating [...]

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I’d be traveling over next couple of weeks mainly to attend EMC World in Orlando and meet customers in the US. We have been working on some interesting concepts (Hosted Document Services, Factory Model and ECM Maturity Model) and I will take this opportunity to socialize these and get feedback from our customers.
This is my first [...]

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After Autonomy/Interwoven and Oracle/Sun news, here comes the third big news of the year.
If Unilever can have multiple soaps and GM can have multiple car models, why can’t a Content Management vendor have multiple products? OT’s acquisition of Vignette points to this increasing “commoditization” of Content Management marketplace.
There may be a lot of overlaps in products across [...]

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