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Open source doesn’t always represent best value
January 4th, 2010 by Janus Boye
13 Comments| bcsositpf, microsoft, open source, plone, umbraco
Despite much hype we did not see a breakthrough for open source CMS last year. When I launched the discussion last year, we received some great comments, e.g. on intellectual property and warranty, suggesting that in some cases open source is not the right decision.
In the past decade, several governments have issued statements with strong …
Major progress in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint déjà-vu
October 28th, 2009 by Peter Erik Bang Nissen
2 Comments| maturity, microsoft, SharePoint
Last week I attended Microsoft’s SharePoint conference in Las Vegas with over 7,000 delegates where they released the first details of SharePoint 2010 (“Twenty-ten”). The amount of changes on the platform is impressive – this release is by far the most ambitious SharePoint release yet and there was a lot of excitement around it from …
The real definition of a “key account”
September 10th, 2009 by Janus Boye
3 Comments| agency, microsoft, microsoft cms, vendors
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 …
Who should be on your CMS shortlist?
August 12th, 2009 by Janus Boye
43 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 …
Is content management important to Microsoft?
July 28th, 2009 by Janus Boye
3 Comments| content management, microsoft, microsoft cms, SharePoint
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 …
SharePoint 2010: On governance and upgrading
July 16th, 2009 by Janus Boye
No Comments| governance, microsoft, SharePoint
Earlier this week Microsoft released sneak peak videos of SharePoint 2010, which have created quite a buzz among the many working within the SharePoint goldmine. A blog post by US-based SharePoint expert Mauro Cardarelli, co-author of “Essential SharePoint 2007 – Delivering High Impact Collaboration“, called Planning for SharePoint 2010, caught my attention as he called …
DIY SharePoint
June 30th, 2009 by Peter Sejersen
2 Comments| accessibility, cms, microsoft, microsoft cms, SharePoint, success, system integrator
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 …
Be careful with SharePoint integrators
June 23rd, 2009 by Janus Boye
No Comments| microsoft, SharePoint, system integrator
Last week I chaired a discussion on “Working with integrators” at our annual practitioners-only SharePoint Day. The topic is relevant for other systems as well, but we quickly agreed that finding the right system integrator is an overlooked SharePoint success factor. Everybody around the table acknowledged that system integrator costs usually take most of the …
Overlooked SharePoint success factors
June 8th, 2009 by Janus Boye
2 Comments| microsoft, SharePoint, success
SharePoint is a very successful product in many organisations, but has certainly also been the product behind a number of failed projects. SharePoint system integrators are often brilliant technical minds, but rarely any good at advising you on the weaknesses of the product and typical project pitfalls.
As with any complex product, there are many factors …
SharePoint: Planning for the future
April 16th, 2009 by Dorthe Raakjær Jespersen
2 Comments| microsoft, SharePoint
At one of our recent Community of Practice meetings I for the first time met an organisation using SharePoint 2003, who decided to skip SharePoint 2007. Instead they will be migrating to SharePoint 2010 once that gets released, currently expected in the beginning of 2010. This is an interesting decision at a time when experiences …
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