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Why the finances of software vendors matter

January 24th, 2010 by Janus Boye
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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 …

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The real definition of a “key account”

September 10th, 2009 by Janus Boye
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Buyers who account for the majority of revenue for a given product are normally offered preferential treatment of some sort. This would seem fair, but to the surprise of many online professionals this is often not the case when it comes to software vendors or digital agencies.
Over the years I’ve talked to practitioners around the …

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Is content management important to Microsoft?

July 28th, 2009 by Janus Boye
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Microsoft used to have a product called Content Management Server 2002; the sole purpose of this was to be a content management system. This was followed by the popular SharePoint 2007, in which “Content Management” was reduced to only one of six pillars. With SharePoint 2010, the packaging has been changed once …

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DIY SharePoint

June 30th, 2009 by Peter Sejersen
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The municipality of Aalborg; Denmark’s fourth largest city, recently relaunched their website using SharePoint 2007. They chose the unusual route of running the project in-house with minimal involvement from third party system integrators. I talked to the responsible project manager, Niels Højdahl Pedersen, about the lessons learned.
Accessibility for SharePoint 2007 will cost you
Q: Did the …

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HyperContent: A dead open source CMS?

June 1st, 2009 by Janus Boye
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Do you know if your CMS is dead or alive? Whether it has a bright or a bleak future? When higher education software consortium Jasig announced that they would discontinue their support for HyperContent in December 2008, it was a timely reminder that systems do die. Who knows whether other and more popular systems are …

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Are you still using Microsoft CMS 2002?

January 13th, 2009 by Janus Boye
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Yesterday I had the honour of acting as moderator in our first community of practice meeting in 2009. Interestingly, I met two member organisations at the meeting that were still using Microsoft Content Management Server (CMS) 2002, even though the product was originally released back in July 2001. One of the organisations is planning to …

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