January 24th, 2010 by Janus Boye
4 Comments| annual report, ektron, fatwire, finance, google, ibm, microsoft cms, sitecore, vignette
I’ve regularly covered annual reports, earnings announcements and other financial news about software vendors. These commentaries tend to stir debate and I am frequently asked why I bother to look behind the numbers. Is it really important?
Many vendors, in particular privately-held US-based ones, don’t publicly release audited numbers. Instead they carefully select a few positive …
September 25th, 2009 by Janus Boye
3 Comments| earnings, ektron
US-based Web CMS vendor Ektron recently announced that August 2009 was a record-breaking month for them. It is quite unusual for CMS vendors to release news about monthly performance, but Ektron did post a 96% increase in sales. Ektron must have felt that this story was too good to keep to themselves. Let us examine …
August 12th, 2009 by Janus Boye
44 Comments| alfresco, cms, cms selection, cms watch, day, drupal, ektron, episerver, fatwire, forrester, gartner, joomla, microsoft, plone, sitecore, tridion, typo3, umbraco, wordpress
Selecting the right CMS is not an easy task with; there is in excess of 1,000 vendors in the very dynamic CMS marketplace. Unfortunately industry analysts tend to evaluate too many vendors for the needs of most buyers. Consider CMS Watch which has 42 systems in their Web CMS Report and Gartner with 18 …