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Last week, I attended two conferences in Delhi. Coincidentally, both of them were on similar topics. The first one, organized by Indian trade body, NASSCOM was about mobile Internet and appstores, while the second one was about mobile applications (although it ended up as a conference for sales pitches by device vendors). India recently finalized its 3G policy and although we are way behind many c Read More

You may have heard about a new TLA called "WEM." W and M stand for Web and Management respectively while E refers to Engagement or Experience, depending on who's talking.  Many WCM folks love the new acronym and declare WEM as the next WCM (WCM++ ?). Vendors are especially excited, such that Product X is no longer a WCM offering but a "WEM Suite" now. But you should be for Read More

Microsoft has released support for the recently ratified CMIS  (Content Management Interoperability Services) standard -- joining the ranks of many other vendors that now support CMIS in some form. This support comes in the form of a connector in SharePoint 2010 administration toolkit. In a new Advisory Briefing for our SharePoint and ECM subscribers, we evaluate how the CMIS  connecto Read More

Adobe Systems today announced their intent to acquire Day Software which we evaluate in-depth in our Web Content Management and Digital Asset Management research. We've seen Adobe featured in many content management RFPs, and although they have had some of necessary pieces of a potential content management solution including Adobe Contribute and LiveCycle, they were never taken seri Read More

JackBe, one of the Mashup vendors we cover in our Portals and Content Integration Research, announced version 3.0 of their Mashup product Presto. The new version features enhancements to their existing, mostly visual tools, some of which we had pointed out in our last review of Presto. However, the greatest focus of this upgrade has been addition of a new "App Store" functionality that a Read More

Although released a couple of weeks back, Red Hat made a formal announcement of the release of their new JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform (EPP 5) on Thursday at the Red Hat summit in Boston. As we have mentioned before, this release is a completely re-architected platform built on GateIn, the portal they jointly developed with eXo.   The platform has many new features such as: Plug-in b Read More

We've just released an update to our Portals evaluation research. Along with updates to the individual portal vendor evaluations, we have expanded the scope of our research to include a new category of related solutions that enable you to integrate and aggregate content from multiple sources. While these are not as feature rich as Portal products, they do enable you to create "Portal-like&quo Read More

One of our predictions for this year was about the rise of mobile as a delivery channel -- much more closely integrated with your content technologies. Most vendors provide some sort of mechanism for delivering content to mobile channels, and most of them will tell you they support mobile delivery. However, like all other features, the devil lies in the details. The extent to which these vendors s Read More

When I talk to people about Mashups, I find many of you are really thinking of iGoogle-type, dashboard-style applications, assembled using Gadgets and Widgets. This is an accurate visualization in many cases.  Yet it's important to remember there are really two different pieces here: One is related to back-end content integration and the ability to access content from multiple sources, while Read More

More than two years after it's last major version was released, the Web CMS project Joomla! has announced the beta version of its next major release (1.6). For an open source project, that's a lot of time between two versions. There have also been concerns raised about transparency and governance within Open Source Matters (OSM), the not-for-profit that manages the Joomla! project. However, with a Read More