January 13th, 2009 by Janus Boye
7 Comments| cms, microsoft, microsoft cms, SharePoint
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 …
December 21st, 2008 by Janus Boye
2 Comments| dsb, episerver, fatwire, SharePoint, success
Congrats to DSB, our former monopoly railway company in Denmark, on a recent relaunch of their website at dsb.dk using Swedish CMS vendor EPiServer. DSB seem to have come up with a successful recipe by adopting EPiServer for their public website and keeping SharePoint behind the firewall for knowledge sharing and collaboration. If you take …
December 10th, 2008 by Janus Boye
6 Comments| danske bank, SharePoint, success
Congrats to Danske Bank, one of the largest financial institutions in the Nordic region, on a successful relaunch of their very large and complex Danish site – www.danskebank.dk – on SharePoint 2007. The corporate site is available in English at www.danskebank.com and has already been up and running with SharePoint 2007 for quite some time.
If …
December 8th, 2008 by Janus Boye
5 Comments| microsoft, open source, oxite, SharePoint
The notable Microsoft-tracker Mary Jo Foley alerted my attention to a new development from Microsoft in her recent comment: Microsoft develops open-source content-management system.
Web CMS has thus far not been among Microsoft’s strongest software offerings to say the least. The most recent content management system from Microsoft, CMS 2002, certainly missed the mark and has …
November 11th, 2008 by Janus Boye
1 Comment| cms, episerver, SharePoint, sitecore
I’ve been tracking Swedish CMS vendor EPiServer since late 2005. Many milestones later the company has now expanded far outside beyond its home shores, but unlike other ambitious and growing vendors, they have so far resisted the usual European temptation to attempt venturing into the US market. Quite unlike local competitor Sitecore, which have built …