No year-end predictions, no resolutions. Not even debating the acronyms. Just simple numbers: the top 10 most trafficked posts in 2009 on this blog: Review: SDL Tridion R5 Web CMS The post was inspired by several years of being an SDL Tridion customer, when the company was Tridion and the product was R5.x. Things We [...]

Recently, I got an e-mail newsletter (from: company name redacted) – one of those that goes almost immediately to trash following a quick scan. What made me ROFL was this line: Blogging is easy, usually free, and most importantly, fun! Now, I am not perfect (well, am nearly ) and could use more self-blogging discipline, [...]

It was a lovely Friday morning/afternoon, and we were Waving. The experiment initiated by McBoof (yes, that one) brought together 6 CMS folks from around the world. The event gathered together analysts, journalists, vendors, system integrators to Wave on a topic that was decided at that very moment. We had one hour (in between conference calls and other job thingys) to pick a topic and Wave it.

Open Source ECM vendor Nuxeo included several new features in the latest release of Nuxeo Document Management. Nuxeo DM 5.3 highlights include support for OpenSocial API, tagging, SharePoint and interoperability with CMIS Server as an add-on component. On top of that, Nuxeo EP 5.3, the vendor’s enterprise content management system core, reached the RC stage. Nuxeo [...]

That is a conclusion Basex, an analyst and research firm, came to in a (at times, admittedly questionable) report entitled Content Management Systems: The New Math for Selecting Your Platform released in September 2009. The researchers are saying the content management market is set to explode in the next several years, and open source CMS vendors [...]

Not long ago, we discussed Vamosa’s work in the Enterprise Content Governance (ECoG) field and their new Check and Fix tool. Recently, the vendor extended its Check and Fix functionality to cater more to eDiscovery and web records management scenarios. Web governance can be tricky, even with a formal approach in place. That’s why we [...]

She is well-versed in matters of Enterprise CMS, Enterprise 2.0, collaboration and social media; specializes in VQA wines, weaves in candy and aspirin into one sentence and posts some of the yummiest foodie tweets out there. Soon after her resignation, the former Open Text-er was asking on Twitter whether 6 pairs of shoes would be [...]

Well, if it isn’t open source CMS and PHP companies playing friendly again… Open source, PHP5-fueled Enterprise CMS vendor KnowledgeTree announced its embrace of the PHP-driven Zend Technologies in a partnership that aims to increase speed and performance of KnowledgeTree’s products. Part of the partnership revolves around the forthcoming version 3.7 of KnowledgeTree’s on-the-premise commercial [...]

IBM announced fairly significant updates to its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) product families, including Business Process Management (BPM), eDiscovery and Archiving.
Apparently having heard the market scream for leaner, smarter product options and cost efficiency, the Big Blue has also introduced starter packs — licensing-wise slimmed-down product versions targeted for smaller or departmental deployments — for [...]

No longer rumored in the halls of the ILTA conference, the intent of Enterprise CMS and storage vendor EMC to acquire Kazeon is now official. The unconfirmed deal size is at about US$ 75 million.
What does that mean for the two companies? How did the eDiscovery industry take the news? Let’s take [...]