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Why do you act against expert advice?
May 27th, 2009 by Janus Boye
6 Comments| failure, maturity, success
Against Medical Advice (AMA) is an established medical term, which basically warns the patient (customer) that he or she is acting against professional advice. In the online industry, it is common for customers to have their own peculiar way of doing things, often against the advice of peers, vendor, analysts, consultants and anybody else. Unfortunately, …
IBM #1 in web portal software?
May 25th, 2009 by Janus Boye
3 Comments| gartner, ibm, ibm websphere portal, market share
IT analyst firm Gartner recently released research on market share numbers (Market Share: Application Infrastructure and Middleware Software, Worldwide, 2008 35-page document; USD 9,995), in which they crown IBM as the leader in web portals. IBM immediately issued a press release, IBM Ranked #1 in Web Portal Software Market Share, where you can find a …
Open Text buys Vignette – What it means to customers
May 22nd, 2009 by Janus Boye
1 Comment| consolidation, opentext, vignette
Earlier this month Canadian Enterprise Content Management-vendor Open Text announced their intention to acquire the ailing Texas-based Web CMS vendor Vignette. As one of the granddaddies of Web CMS, Vignette peaked during the .com years and did make a few acquisitions. Despite aggressive and creative marketing including a recent re-positioning as a Web Experience Management …
Don’t buy licenses from your system integrator
May 20th, 2009 by Janus Boye
7 Comments| contract, episerver, maturity, sitecore, system integrator
This week I’ve talked to several members in our community of practice who were all of the impression that CMS licenses can only be bought from system integrators. This is undoubtedly in the interest of your system integrator, but for the vendors I cover, you can buy the software directly from the vendor as well. …
”Talk to your system integrator”
May 19th, 2009 by Peter Sejersen
3 Comments| communication, system integrator, web project management
This advice comes from Anne Sørensen from Aarhus University, who has just launched a new major web portal about the history of Denmark on danmarkshistorien.dk. I caught her just one week after the launch to a chat about working with system integrators; about crashing on the day of launch; content delivery from more than 35 …
WCM instructions from Philadelphia
May 15th, 2009 by Janus Boye
No Comments| amr research, wcm
Last week I chaired the popular track on web content management at our Philadelphia conference. It was great to make connections with many new practitioners and as always happens, meeting in person brought about some interesting conversation. After a few days to digest the many lessons learned, I would like to share them, while they are …
Why are proposals always so long?
May 12th, 2009 by Janus Boye
10 Comments| proposal
Many customers have asked me why proposals always seem excessively long. This is often the case early in the process, when the buyer is simply looking to engage a new system integrator. Even if the customer does not ask for fixed price or fixed scope and keep the tender at less than 10 pages, many system integrators and …
eZ Systems won Web Idol at Philadelphia 2009
May 12th, 2009 by Janus Boye
No Comments| eZ, open source, web idol
Congrats to Norwegian open-source vendor eZ Systems, on beating the competition and winning the Web Idol competition at the J. Boye Conference in Philadelphia last week. Presented by co-founder and CTO Bård Farstad, the demo looked fairly similar to eZ’s previous wins in 2006 and 2007 at our European conference, but as always it was not the judges or yours …
Overflight Award for Excellence won by Volker Grünauer
May 11th, 2009 by Janus Boye
No Comments| overflight
At last week’s J. Boye Conference in Philadelphia, I was particularly honoured that Steve Arnold offered to continue the Overflight Award for Excellence launched at our European conference in November 2008 as a way of highlighting good practitioner presentations.
The award and $500 goes to the best conference speaker and this time went to Volker Grünauer, …
Is Drupal the best CMS for publishers?
May 3rd, 2009 by Peter Sejersen
1 Comment| content here, drupal, open source, seth gottlieb
The American open source expert, Seth Gottlieb from Content Here, has just published a new vendor neutral evaluation report titled Drupal for Publishers. If you are considering Drupal, the popular open source CMS, in your organisation, this 25-page report is indeed worth your time – even if you do not consider yourself a publisher. While …
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