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Who are the leading mobile CMS vendors?
February 16th, 2010 by Janus Boye
22 Comments| cms, mobile
All modern CMS vendors claim to be capable of delivering content to mobile devices. Some even offer additional modules to make the implementation faster and easier. However, as a customer, how do you separate marketing from reality? We decided to explore how seriously the vendors treat mobile devices and took a look at their websites …
Vendor selection in a month
December 20th, 2009 by Peter Sejersen
No Comments| cms, cms selection, plone, success, wcm
Selecting a new vendor for a CMS project doesn’t have to be a long and complicated process. In fact, one month can be enough if you don’t overcomplicate things and have made the necessary preparations.
One of our customers, The National Board of Social Services (Servicestyrelsen in Danish), recently managed to get through the process in …
Who’s big in the European CMS marketplace?
November 30th, 2009 by Janus Boye
4 Comments| cms, vendors
There is not shortage of vendors in the CMS marketplace. The European marketplace in particular seems very fragmented with many local vendors. When the familiar US-based analysts take a look at the marketplace, they often end up favouring the same large vendors and ignoring the many local vendors that are doing great work in many …
Is Gentics the Austrian König of CMS?
November 16th, 2009 by Janus Boye
6 Comments| austria, cms, gentics, swarovski
Austrian CMS and Portal vendor Gentics is relatively unknown on the international scene, but happen to be used by some of our Austrian community of practice members. Like most other vendors, Gentics brand themselves as being the leading vendor, at least in Austria, but is there anything unique beyond the all too familiar marketing?
I recently …
Would you prefer to be a whale or a herring?
November 11th, 2009 by Janus Boye
1 Comment| cms, cms selection, contract, rfp, selection, success, system integrator, vendors
Earlier this week I met the CMS selection team at home, a Danish chain of real estate agents. While I quickly reviewed their comparative vendor sheet, I found that in between the usual plus/minus grading, they had used the metaphor of fish to describe their size and relative importance to each vendor. For some vendors, …
What is a “Proof of Concept”?
October 15th, 2009 by Peter Sejersen
3 Comments| cms, cms selection
When selecting a new CMS you definitely want to see the system in action before you sign the contract. A “Proof of Concept” (PoC) is often used as an opportunity to get a detailed demo, but there are many different opinions about what a PoC actually is. Let me clear up some of the …
e-Spirit takes advantage of distraction among competitors
October 15th, 2009 by Janus Boye
6 Comments| cms, cms selection, e-spirit, firstspirit
German CMS vendor e-Spirit may be largely unknown outside their German-speaking home market, but have quietly grown to become one of the significant European CMS vendors. With major competitors in the difficult German market distracted by acquisitions or management changes, e-Spirit does seem to represent a lower risk option at the moment for potential CMS …
Aarhus University selects Typo3
October 9th, 2009 by Janus Boye
3 Comments| cms, cms selection, typo3
Aarhus University (AU) in Denmark announced in late June that they have selected Typo3 as their new common content management system for the entire university. Typo3 beat Sitecore in the final stages of the evaluation and will be implemented by Linkfactory, a small Danish consultancy.
Aarhus University selected their existing CMS (a local system called SIAB) …
Another day, another vendor
October 8th, 2009 by Janus Boye
1 Comment| cms, sales, vendors
Despite talk of consolidation, there is still an overwhelming number of vendors to choose between. How do you navigate a crowded marketplace and avoid risky bets?
Not a week goes by when I don’t discover several new vendors, be it CMS, portal, wiki, search or whatever. Many of these have actually been around for a …
Renegotiate your maintenance contracts
September 15th, 2009 by Janus Boye
No Comments| budget, cms, contract, portal, software, support
I’ve previously recommended that you cancel your maintenance contracts. This is an effective way to save some money, but also quite risky if you don’t have the necessary support infrastructure in place. A safer alternative would be to not automatically renew the contracts, but instead insist on better terms and try to obtain multiple proposals …
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