Janus Boye - in English

Press: Sharepoint Server: la pelote sans fin

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 5 Feb 2007 02:23:00 +0100

Adopter la nouvelle version serveur de Sharepoint, c'est mettre le doigt dans l'engrenage Microsoft. Et finir par installer l'ensemble du catalogue.

Press: Standaardontsluiting webcontent in beweging

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:03:00 +0100

Het beheer en de ontsluiting van webcontent is als specialisme volop in beweging. In het Java-domein duiken de eerste standaarden op om content management systemen op een eenvormige manier te ontsluiten. Of het echt wat wordt, hangt af van de eindgebruikers.

Press: CMS Watch Finds User Interface Dilemmas for Enterprise Portal Buyers

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:40:00 +0100

Enterprise portal software customers must invest substantial resources to create usable and accessible user interfaces, according to the latest semi-annual release of the "Enterprise Portals Report" from independent analyst firm, CMS Watch.

Press: Portal, CMS & Search are blending - Janus Boye at KMWorld & Intranets

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:32:00 +0100

Comments from the excellent talk by Janus Boye of Boye IT, Denmark, on portals. Janus is the author of Enterprise Portals Report published by Tony Byrne's well-known CMS Watch web site. V2 will be out very soon.

Webcast: Episode 3 - Portals vs CM

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:27:00 +0100

Portal application, Content Management system or both? Janus Boye (Principal author of the Enterprise Portals Report) and Apoorv Durga (Practice Manager of the Wipro Portals and CM Group) join this week's discussion.

Press: SharePoint 2007 brings new capabilities, old limitations

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:24:00 +0100

"For use as an enterprise portal, MOSS will remain an unlikely fit for most e-business scenarios or enterprise-wide deployments in large organisations," according to CMS Watch analyst Janus Boye. "Microsoft has tried to go enterprise in the impressive breadth of MOSS capabilities, but not necessarily in their depth and scalability."

Press: CMS-Channel conference in Brussels

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:15:00 +0100

One of the notable presentations was by Janus Boye, who tried to answer the question "Which CMS is the leading one?" In a side note, he made the point that "One Ring to Rule Them All" ECM suites are a phalacy: there is no magic bullet to solve all content management needs with a single product from a single vendor.

Press: Analyst Firm Reviews SharePoint (MOSS) 2007

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:07:00 +0100

The long waiting game will soon end for enterprises looking to upgrade their Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 installations, as the much delayed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 becomes generally available later this month.

Press: Portals found lacking

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:02:00 +0100

"Most enterprises blindly adopt the default building block approach to layout found in contemporary portals - a leftover from the early days of public portals," according to Lead Report Analyst, Janus Boye. "Today, this de-facto standard can mitigate against adoption in the enterprise," adds Boye.

Press: CMS or Portal?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:54:00 +0100

The whole reason why you started on this content management initiative is to get the right content to the right users at the right time. A CMS is not the only software that promises to solve that problem. In the good old days, many software buyers took an integration approach by presenting CMS managed content through a portal.

Press: SharePoint 2007: Ring In the New... And the Old

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:51:00 +0100

It seems that the world is almost slowing down a bit as Microsoft readies a final version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, the quite substantial upgrade to a nearly ubiquitous SharePoint 2003. SharePoint is many things to many people, but customers typically deploy it as a lightweight collaboration portal.

Press: SharePoint 2007 mit neuen Funktionen - und alten Einschr�nkungen

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:39:00 +0100

Die Analysten von CMS Watch haben SharePoint 2007 vorab analysiert und stellen dem System ein schlechtes Zeugnis aus. "Ale Enterprise Portal wird MOSS weiterhin nicht zu den meisten E-Business Szenarien oder unternehmensweiten Nutzung in gro�en Firmen passen," sagt Janus Boye.

Archive: Which CMS is the leading one?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:14:00 +0100

Download Janus Boye's presentation from CMS Congress, Brussels.

Event: Portal Project Success

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:05:00 +0100

You can meet Janus Boye in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from February 5^th to February 7^th 2007, where he holds the course Portal Project Success.

Article:Talk to Microsoft

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Friday, 3 Aug 2007 19:22:00 +0100

Most implementations of the popular MOSS 2007 are performed by system integrators and local consulting companies, typically without Microsoft intercession

Article:IBM: Leading the portal market?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wednesday, 1 Aug 2007 19:22:00 +0100

According to a recent study by research firm IDC, IBM is leading the Enterprise Portal market in license and maintenance revenue for the 5th consecutive year.

Article:Oracle Portal woes

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Saturday, 21 July 2007 19:22:00 +0100

It can be challenging to work with any big software vendor, but Oracle in particular does not seem to be making portal projects easy for its faithful customers.

Article:Magnolia's new enterprise edition is more of a departmental tool

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Saturday, 14 July 2007 19:22:00 +0100

We've now started coverage of Magnolia as a part of the Web CMS Report. Like many open source Web content management tools, Magnolia has seen growing exposure in recent years.

Article: No free lunch with MOSS 2007

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Friday, 13 July 2007 19:22:00 +0100

Earlier this week I visited a national membership association in wonderful Copenhagen, Denmark. The association had accepted a seemingly very nice offer from Microsoft: free licenses to MOSS 2007 to support a revamped public website.

Article: New JBoss Portal 2.6 integrates with....Google Gadgets

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wednesday, 4 July 2007 19:22:00 +0100

Earlier this week open source vendor Red Hat finally released the new version 2.6 of JBoss Portal. I've previously commented on the usability improvements and the developer release.

Article: Revisiting portal market segmentation

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Saturday, 30 Jun 2007 19:22:00 +0100

A recent workshop alerted me to a fourth approach, which struck me as a useful way of describing how many enterprises perceive the market today.

Article: The Portal - SOA divide

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wednesday, 27 Jun 2007 19:22:00 +0100

Alan Pelz-Sharpe recently cited a brewing backlash against SOA in the enterprise content management world. In the portal market I'm certainly hearing growing concerns about SOA from the user community.

Article: Still no official roadmap for SharePoint 2007

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Monday, 4 Jun 2007 19:22:00 +0100

Almost 6 months after its initial launch, Microsoft has still not issued clear plans nor direction for future releases of MOSS 2007. After being burned on Longhorn and other much-discussed future products, we can almost understand Microsoft's hesitation here.

Article: Synkron becomes Dynamicweb and changes senior management...again

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sunday, 3 Jun 2007 19:22:00 +0100

When Nordic CMS vendor Synkron was bought in late March by local competitor Dynamicweb, the official party line was essentially, "The Synkron CEO leads the new organization and both brands and product lines maintained."

Article: Can enterprise portals help prevent campus shootings?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Saturday, 2 Jun 2007 19:22:00 +0100

Such is the field of technology that software vendors always try to innovate. With a new "Emergency Portal" offering, a small US vendor called Viyaa Technologies tries to promote their capabilities after the Virginia Tech massacre.

Article: OpenPortal: A new open source project from Sun

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 30 May 2007 19:22:00 +0100

Almost exactly a year after open- sourcing its previously commercial portal product, Sun has decided to make a renewed push with its launch of "OpenPortal." OpenPortal is a new portal community where you can find all the source code to Sun Portal.

Article: New Plone 3 delayed until July

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 28 May 2007 19:22:00 +0100

After a few delays, the new version of Plone is due out quite soon. With significant user interface modifications, Plone is trying to address existing weaknesses while also adding new features.

Article: Is Oracle switching portals?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 5 May 2007 19:22:00 +0100

If you want to buy an enterprise portal from Oracle these days, you have two choices, neither of which seems ideal.

Article: Updates to the SAP NetWeaver Portal roadmap

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 4 May 2007 19:22:00 +0100

At last month's Sapphire, SAP's annual conference, SAP outlined an updated roadmap for their enterprise portal.

Article: License sales down for BEA

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 3 May 2007 19:22:00 +0100

On Wednesday, infrastructure and portal vendor BEA reported below-expected results for its first quarter. License revenues fell more than 30% from $169 million last quarter to about $115 million this quarter.

Article: Are you ready for Vista?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 21 April 2007 19:22:00 +0100

Late last year we recommended to exercise caution when upgrading to IE7 in the face of potential incompatibilties with various Web CMS and Portal softare packages.

Article: New accelerators for IBM WebSphere Portal

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 19 April 2007 19:22:00 +0100

In an attempt to deliver more value out-of-the-box, IBM recently announced 5 new portal accelerators as a part of a new minor release and re-packacing of the WebSphere Portal product.

Article: BEA ships WebLogic Portal 10

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 2 April 2007 19:22:00 +0100

Last week BEA announced the release of WebLogic Portal 10. Unlike BEA's last major WebLogic Portal release, this release was timed with the version 10 update to the underlying WebLogic application server.

Article: CMS vendor Synkron is bought by local competitor

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 29 March 2007 19:22:00 +0100

In news from the Nordic market, Danish CMS vendor Dynamicweb has bought all shares of local competitor Synkron.

Article: BroadVision: Missing in action?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 29 March 2007 19:22:00 +0100

The website of onetime Portal and CMS vendor Broadvision has been unavailable for the last several days. Strange from BroadVision, which earlier this month announced their 2007 roadmap.

Article: State of the Art for Enterprise Portals

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Monday, 19 March 2007 19:22:00 +0100

Portal software technology has been around since 1998, and while portal implementations still often suffer from many shortcomings, the industry has also come a long way.

Article: SharePoint: A bunch of apps loosely joined?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 15 March 2007 19:22:00 +0100

In an interesting commentary, Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet discusses whether MOSS 2007 is the next big operating system from Microsoft.

Article: IBM teams up with Google

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 7 March 2007 19:22:00 +0100

It almost felt like a royal wedding, when news came out that these two big vendors would work together. It received an almost unheard amount of coverage, but faithful readers may have already have seen this covered in my short WebSphere Portal evaluation from mid-February.

Article: BEA WebLogic Portal: hit a bump last quarter

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 1 March 2007 19:22:00 +0100

When portal vendor BEA recently announced softer-than-expected quarterly revenues, its stock took a bit of a tumble (though it had been quite high before that).

Article: Debugging MOSS 2007...but not in all major languages

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 6 Feb 2007 23:40:00 +0100

A recent posting on the Microsoft SharePoint Product Group's official blog provides some estimated release timeframes for SharePoint 2007 Language Packs.

At least 10 official European Union languages remain unavailable, with the latest coming in June, almost 8 months after the original release.

Article: Ensuring portal project success

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tues, 5 Feb 2007 23:40:00 +0100

This morning finds me in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at a 3-day seminar with the above title. While flying here I was reading some German management literature arguing that successful organizations all transform into "Single Purpose Tools" focusing on fewer and fewer things.

Article: BEA pointing fingers at Oracle

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 4 Feb 2007 23:40:00 +0100

In a rather strange commentary, BEA Senior Product Manager Josh Lannin recently claimed on his blog that Oracle is leaving existing portal customers in the dust with its new WebCenter suite product.

Article: Using AJAX with portlets

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 2 Feb 2007 23:40:00 +0100

An interesting technical article on the Sun Developer Network provides helpful tips on applying AJAX to JSR 168 portlets. The article concludes that, "Indisputably, limitations and caveats exist in programming AJAX with respect to JSR 168 portlets," and offers a sample that bundles the Dojo Toolkit.

Article: IBM catching up with outside world

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:10:00 +0100

This morning finds me in Orlando, Florida at IBM Lotusphere, a five-day conference with nearly 7,000 attendees, where IBM's main announcement was "industry's first business-ready social software", a new platform called Connections, built on...good ol' Lotus.

Article: Who should serve on the steering commmitee?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tues, 16 Jan 2007 21:10:00 +0100

Danish blogger and project manager Jakob Veje Hansen recently asked, how to staff a steering committee?. It's no simple question for a large, complex portal project, but ever relevant, and it has received some interesting posts worth taking a close look at.

Article: Get ready for IE8

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:10:00 +0100

While many enterprises are still feeling the impact of the new IE7 on CMS and Portal implementations, Slashdot last week reported on some upcoming browser versions. It seems that work on Microsoft IE8 has already begun and we may expect it in 2008.

Article: Predictions for 2007: The elusive quest for simple

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Monday, 15 Jan 2007 22:48:00 +0100

What does this year hold for content technologies? As the holiday season winds down and we all gear up for 2007, we offer 12 predictions for the next 12 months.

On the whole, we expect to see more incremental changes, rather than epochal shifts. Despite all the industry mergers, new product versions, and ceaseless march of acronyms, the content technology industry does not in fact move very fast.

Article: eXo upgrades and changes positioning to webOS

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 11 Jan 2007 21:10:00 +0100

Open Source vendor eXo recently announced a new version of their portal package. According to eXo Platform CEO Benjamin Mestrallet the new 2.0 release has a 100% AJAX based user interface, which by design should resemble a desktop-like UI.

Article: Marketplace Realities: A European Perspective

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thursday, 14 December 2006 15:22:00 +0100

As 2006 comes to an end, it's worth examining the content technology landscape from the perspective of a European customer. Current trends reflect more than the arrival of new features but also how projects are getting implemented.

Article: Early adopters of SharePoint 2007 WCM in the UK

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 13 Dec 2006 21:10:00 +0100

A few very early adopters (LloydsTSB, Corgi and Ministry of Sound) have gone live with public websites using the new MS SharePoint 2007. Unlike the old SharePoint 2003 (which was very focused on document management behind the firewall) the new MOSS 2007 purports of manage website content of all stripes.

Article: CMS vendor Immediacy announces document management system

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tues, 12 Dec 2006 21:10:00 +0100

In recent news the UK-based Web CMS vendor Immediacy began trumpeting a new lightweight document management system (DMS) add-on. As readers of the CMS Report, European Edition know, Immediacy offers basic, MS SharePoint-like functionality to manage Office documents.

Article: The last word: The trouble with portal dashboards...

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:55:00 +0100

Enterprise portals are supposed to make systems more accessible to real, live humans. But portal technology adopters today face several usability challenges, including complicated dashboard interfaces.

Based on hundreds of interviews CMS Watch has conducted with users worldwide, it's clear that portal software customers must invest more in creating usable and accessible user interfaces. Today most organisations blindly adopt the default "building block" approach to layout found in enterprise portals - a relic from the early days of public internet portals.

Article: SharePoint 2007: 3rd-party plug-ins for basic functionality

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:10:00 +0100

An interesting article on Windows Account Management about the need for 3rd-party support for provisioning and managing new users in Windows SharePoint Services confirms our speculation in the Enterprise Portals Report that Microsoft will contine to rely on third-party suppliers for what we consider basic functionality.

Article: Oracle releases 2nd portal product

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:10:00 +0100

As we reported in August, Oracle has now released a new portal product called Oracle WebCenter Suite (OWS). While the press release mentions Web 2.0 and some vague feature highlights, an online FAQ (PDF) offers a few more helpful details.

Article: New IE7 Shakes Up CMS and Portal Implementations

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:22:00 +0100

When Microsoft releases a major new version to a browser that still boasts 80-85% market share, web managers around the world need to take note.

Article: JBoss Portal 2.6 available to developers

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Earlier this week JBoss announced an early snapshot release of JBoss Portal 2.6, targeted to developers. As previously mentioned there will be quite a few user interface enhancements to the upcoming version including personal dashboards, drag-n-drop windows, and a reworked portlet UI.

Article: ATG misses financial target

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Earlier this month, ATG issued an unexpected announcement that it "expects to swing to a third-quarter loss and post weaker-than-expected revenue due to delays in licensing deals." We rarely discuss earnings, but our general rule for customers is: boring is good.

Article: A new standard for portlet repositories

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 18 Oct 2006 21:10:00 +0100

The enterprise portal teams at JBoss and Sun have jointly announced the start of a new protocol for communicating with portlet repositories. According to the JBoss blog posting, "the idea for a standard repository protocol came after discussions with Sun over the interoperability of disparate portlet repositories with many portal vendors (as you know, they also have a portlet repository), and how we could offer a standard medium of communication between all players involved."

Article: BEA WebLogic Portal mashup with Google

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Following the recent delay to their much hyped Web 2.0 tools, BEA last week announced partnership talks with Google. Using BEA's "Adrenaline" (a not-yet-released feature in WebLogic Portal) and hidden Google APIs, developers will be able to create mashups between the two.

Article: Synkron releases major update to Via CMS product

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 12 Oct 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Less than 6 months ago Danish CMS vendor Synkron announced Via 1.0, a complete technology refresh with significant UI improvements. Now Synkron has moved fast -- at least in terms of version numbers -- to release Via 2.0.

Article: Liferay Portal 4

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:55:00 +0100

Liferay Portal dates back to 2000, when it was founded as an open-source project to provide non-profit organizations with a free intranet portal platform to allow for better collaboration over the internet. Like all portal software, the package is first and foremost a container for "portlets"-snippets of code that expose information and services from other systems or provide basic functionality in a dashboard-like setting.

There is a case for and against the open source alternative. The case against open source portals is this: they are generally immature, and adoptees struggle with persistent performance bottlenecks, implementation delays, cost overruns, and poor usability. However, the very same problems also tend to plague projects with commercial portal software. And the good news is that there are a handful of fairly large open source projects whose communities can provide substantial support in what is typically a difficult implementation journey, be it an open or commercial portal approach.

Article: New Web 2.0 tools from BEA delayed

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 21 Sept 2006 21:10:00 +0100

According to recent news, BEA's VP of Product Management David Meyer showed off three new tools at this week's BEAWorld. As most BEA WebLogic Portal customers have not yet upgraded to the recent significant release, BEA now seems focused more on these new tactical components, which will provide an enterprise application wiki, knowledgebase, and a tool to create mash-ups or composite applications.

Article: FrontPage is dead. Long live FrontPage!

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 18 Sept 2006 21:10:00 +0100

The tool that so many organizations used before they invested in a CMS or Enterprise Portal is going away. As part of the upcoming release of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, the easy-to-learn FrontPage web editor from Microsoft will slowly but surely be discontinued.

Article: Is German CoreMedia still a CMS company?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 15 Sept 2006 21:10:00 +0100

While the CoreMedia corporate website still mentions CMS, it seems like the longtime German content management vendor is more focused on digital rights management (DRM) these days.

Article: New GUI for SAP Portal -- New name for SAP TREX

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 13 Sept 2006 21:10:00 +0100

The German giant is making some interesting portal waves in the footsteps of IBM. Shai Agassi, president of SAP's product and technology group, recently stated that "the next version of SAP's portal, code-named Project Muse, will use AJAX-style development to improve the navigation of SAP application's screens.

Article: Improving portal usability

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:22:00 +0100

In organizations worldwide, the enterprise portal has increasingly become the default interface for employees and business partners to interact digitally with each other.

Article: IBM's new portal release improves the UI

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Quietly IBM last month released version 6 of their WebSphere Portal Server. New in the release is a stronger embrace of SOA and composite application capabilities, but remember that the product still only runs on, and requires the application server from IBM.

Article: Usability enhancements in JBoss Portal 2.6

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tues, 15 Aug 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Based on a recent thread on the JBoss blog, it seems there will be quite a few user interface enhancements to the upcoming version 2.6 of JBoss Portal. They've used a wiki as well as a forum to have an open discussion in the community about the changes.

Article: Most commercial portal vendors behind new portlet standard

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:10:00 +0100

The new Portlet Specification 2.0, aka JSR 286 was just released as first public draft. The standard is currently supported by major portal vendors BEA, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Sun and Vignette.

Article: Portals and small countries - part II

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:10:00 +0100

ust finished another 3 day workshop on portal strategy, this time in the small Sultanate of Brunei. Just as in Malaysia, enterprises here are rapidly catching up on enterprise portals.

Article: Oracle to launch new portal product

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 10 Aug 2006 21:10:00 +0100

According to Jason Stamper, editor of Computer Business Review, Oracle will release a new portal product at the end of the year called Oracle Workplace Portal. Mr. Stamper confirmed this news with a European Oracle representative.

Article: Malaysian public sector catching up on portals

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tues, 8 Aug 2006 21:10:00 +0100

After a 3-day workshop on portal strategy in Kuala Lumpur, it does seem like Malaysia is not so far behind Europe and the United States in this area. Most vendors covered in the Enterprise Portals Report are active the region, along with some interesting local open source initiatives.

Article: Plone Solutions co-founder takes new job at Google -- updated

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 3 Aug 2006 21:10:00 +0100

The popular open source CMS and portal Plone has seen one of it forceful leaders take a new job at Google. According to recent news Alexander Limi is taking on a new position as User Interface Designer at Google.

Article: A bunch of apps loosely joined?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thurs, 3 Aug 2006 21:10:00 +0100

In an interesting commentary, Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet discusses whether MOSS 2007 is the next big operating system from Microsoft. "Although Microsoft is not fond of calling out the six or so servers that comprise Office SharePoint Server, it is a bunch of server apps loosely joined," she writes, comparing SharePoint to the many popular loosely joined Office products (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

Article: Plone Solutions co-founder leaves for Google

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 3 Aug 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Article: Open Source Portal eXo makes waves

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tues, 1 Aug 2006 21:10:00 +0100

In recent news open source portal vendor eXo has joined the list of few vendors to support the emerging JSR-170 repository standard. Meanwhile, eXo Portal was tested earlier this year by part of the US Department of Defense during a three-week collaboration exercise with allied armed forces.

Article: Open Source Portals: Frustration & Promise

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tue, 1 Aug 2006 00:19:00 +0100

Enterprise portals have become a common component of IT infrastructures, even if many portal software customers struggle to get full value from their portal investments amid basic questions about their purpose and value. While portal remains a broadly misused word, enterprise IT leaders consistently rank portal technology near the top of their investment plans. Not surprisingly, open source portal projects are trying to claim their share of the buzz.

Article: Managing Content On the Web

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:48:00 +0100

Where does your content management system end and your portal start?

Enterprise portals have become a common component of IT infrastructures, and even if "portal" remains an overloaded term, enterprises consistently rank portal technology near the top of their IT investment plans. While much ink has been spilled about portals becoming the de facto platform for enterprise initiatives, there has been less discussion about the growing functional capabilities of portal products-including the increasing development of content and document management services.

Article: Improving collaboration with a portal

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tue, 1 Aug 2006 01:22:00 +0100

Portals can often and misleadingly be seen as the be all and end all of a company's IT woes. But what actually is a portal? Why and how should you go about choosing one for your organization. Here Janus Boye explains the true definition and reasons for investing in a portal and details how they can improve communication, collaboration and efficiency across your organization.

Article: How the new Office 2007 will impact intranet professionals

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:10:00 +0100

In a recent article in Intranet Journal called "Sharing, Collaboration Highlight Office 2007," Troy Dreier outlines the impact that the major new Office release from Microsoft will have on intranets.

Article: Portal Kudos and Shortcomings -- Summer, 2006

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 26 July 2006 15:22:00 +0100

There are many ways to segment the portal software marketplace, and indeed, putting products in boxes is a popular exercise among analysts and vendors alike.

Article: Plone 2.5: Catching up with Zope

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 26 Jul 2006 21:10:00 +0100

The Plone Foundation has recently announced the new Plone 2.5. According to the press release, the new version comes with performance improvements and also focused on "streamlining code, strengthening stability, and increasing flexibility.

Article: New WebLogic Portal release, but Plumtree still not integrated

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thurs, 13 Jul 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Earlier this week BEA announced a major new release to its WebLogic Portal offering. Version 9.2 introduces a new community framework, new portal life cycle management capabilities and support for the Eclipse open-source application development platform.

Article: Put to the Test: Sun Portal 7.0

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 1 Jul 2006 23:40:00 +0100

When Sun released version 7.0 of its Java System Portal Server last December, the company put the spotlight on the product's expansive embrace of "Web 2.0," calling it "the first platform to integrate wikis and other next-generation platforms." With its emphasis on collaboration, the product clearly takes aim at would-be SharePoint adopters, albeit with a Java twist.

What's more, Sun announced in May that it would move from closed-source, no-cost licensing to a less-restrictive approach by making its entire services-oriented architecture platform--the portal, Java Studio Creator IDE, BPEL Engine, Java Message System and other elements of the stack--open source.

Article: NetWeaver 2004s: Addressing weaknesses in SAP Enterprise Portal

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sun, 25 June 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Earlier this month, SAP quietly released an update to their portal offering. New business intelligence capabilities were added, together with some new development capabilities. What's even more interesting in the release is a focus on what SAP calls "external facing portals.

Article: Follow on to JSR-168

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tues, 13 June 2006 21:10:00 +0100

At the recent JavaOne conference, Stefan Hepper, specification lead for JSR-286, presented (PDF) a view of what's coming in the Portlet Specification version 2.0. The current specification JSR-168 is gettig old (finished Oct. 2003) and the updated spec aims to address coordination beyond the application session scope.

Article: Hosted CMS, Search Expanding in Europe

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 9 June 2006 21:10:00 +0100

US-based web analytics company WebSideStory recently announched the launch of its Active Marketing Suite in Europe. The company has had an office in Europe for a while, but mostly sold their flagship Hitbox analytics package there.

Article: Insider view into SAP pricing

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 25 May 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Among the many products of German software giant SAP we cover 2: SAP Enterprise Portal and TREX, their search engine. For both of these, SAP has traditionally remained secretive about pricing and typically only sells them in bundles as parts of larger deals.

Article: Synkron Via 1.0 is out

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 24 May 2006 21:10:00 +0100

CMS vendor Synkron has been hard at work to move from Active Server Pages to .NET. Earlier this month the company announced a major new release, called "Via." Synkron candidly numbered the complete rewrite Version 1.0.

Article: Microsoft continues security focus with recent acquisition

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tues, 23 May 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Last week Microsoft acquired privately-held Whale Communications in "a move designed to help enterprises tame the security problems caused by proliferating Web applications." The acquisition gives Microsoft access to application optimizers that try to inspect and analyze data being input into Web applications.

Article: Sun Portal goes open source

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 17 May 2006 21:10:00 +0100

According to a Sun employee blog the company has decided to put Sun Portal into open source. A new open source portlet repository will be developed and seeded with JSR-168 compliant portlets. The new project has its own website, which should be interesting to follow.

Article: Portal: The die-hard buzzword

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 11 May 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Fresh out of the Google Labs is a nice new tool -- Google Trends -- which enables you to "compare the world's interest in your favorite topics." So if you type in CMS, portal, and intranet, you'll notice that it seems like portals are getting most the attention, while CMS and intranet are trolling behind.

Article: What SAP access through MS Outlook means for Portals

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 3 May 2006 21:10:00 +0100

In news from a joint-venture between SAP and Microsoft, the two companies will launch what they call "Duet" next month. Previously known as the "Mendecino Project," Duet promises to be "a joint product that enables people to interact quickly and easily with SAP business processes and data through Microsoft Office applications.

Article: Liferay launches v4 with new features, but same weaknesses

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 19 April 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Last week saw the release of version 4 of the open source Liferay portal. This major new release introduces improved security, enterprise taxonomy, velocity template support, JSR-170 compliance, theme (a.k.a. skin) enhancements, and more documentation.

Article: Next release of Sitecore to be based on delayed Office 2007

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tues, 18 April 2006 21:10:00 +0100

While Microsoft has delayed the next version of Office, Danish CMS vendor Sitecore has recently announced that it will fulfill its promise of delivering the next release (V5.3 due out in July) based on Office 2007 usability principles. According to the company, Sitecore's updated editor is designed to "match the user interface of Microsoft products as closely as possible."

Article: Next release of Sitecore to be based on delayed Office 2007

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tues, 18 April 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Article: 2 views on Web 2.0 in the enterprise

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 17 April 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Here are 2 good postings around "Web 2.0" impacts the enterprise. In a nice article by corporate communications consultant Shel Holtz, discusses why intranets are stagnant.

Article: New SharePoint Console from BEA AquaLogic

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tues, 13 April 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Last week portal vendor BEA announced new products for Microsoft SharePoint integration. The new SharePoint Console "...is designed to help provide support for integrating and governing Windows SharePoint Services within a BEA portal deployment."

Article: Open Source CMS Typo3 launches V4 with new look

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 12 April 2006 21:10:00 +0100

After an extended beta period, last week the Typo3 Association announced the official launch Version 4. As you would expect in a major release, there is a long list of new features and changes, such as workspace support, a new rich text editor, and improvements to search.

Article: RedHat acquires JBoss

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 11 April 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Ending months of speculation, Linux distributor RedHat will acquire the open source Java company JBoss. As Enterprise Portal Report readers know, JBoss Portal runs on almost any operating system, but only with the JBoss application server.

Article: Sun blog discloses issue with major portal release

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sun, 10 April 2006 21:10:00 +0100

In late 2005, Sun announced version 7.0 of its portal platform. As with all new major software releases a few problems have been identified. Keeping inline with the "Web 2.0" focus of the release, a Sun employee recently blogged about a reasonably significant bug regarding portlet errors.

Article: Enterprise Portals: Tip of Which Iceberg?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:22:00 +0100

Today's enterprise sets ambitious goals for content and service integration. Following nearly ubiquitous advice from the trade press and conference circuit, IT departments and business units frequently turn to portal software to help them achieve those goals.

Article: Previewing the next release of IBM WebSphere Portal

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 5 April 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Earlier this week IBM shared some high-level details about the upcoming version 6 of the IBM WebSphere Portal Server, due out this summer. It should be of little surprise to Enterprise Portals Report readers that usability improvements are ahead, including native integration with Microsoft Office and better search features.

Article: Expensive waiting game for Microsoft customers

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:10:00 +0100

My colleague Steve Arnold recently blogged in these pages about how recent delays in Windows Vista and Office 2007 will impact the search marketplace, while other commentators have examined implications for the IT market at large.

Article: Portals and CMS: What's the difference?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:10:00 +0100

We get asked this question all the time. Today you can find a variety of definitions for content management systems and portals, and most of them will overlap; hence so much confusion in the marketplace. We've posted an updated -- and hopefully you'll find practical -- distinction here.

Article: Could Amazon, Google, or Yahoo! become your CMS vendor?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 23 Mar 2006 21:10:00 +0100

While Yahoo! has offered its PageBuilder for a while, Google has also recently entered the market with its own Page Creator and Amazon.com with an Associate Program CMS (developed by a third-party).

Article: Portals and CMS software alive and well at CEBIT.

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Yesterday the annual CEBIT expo opened in Hannover, Germany. It's an enormous IT exhibition the size of a small city. You'll find 31 portal vendors, 43 CMS vendors and once you're done with those, you can visit the booths of document management vendors, digital rights management suppliers, and much more.

Article: Salesforce.com to enter the content management space?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 9 Mar 2006 21:10:00 +0100

The hosted CRM vendor has recently announced that they will focus on enabling customers to run "their entire enterprise on The Business Web" according to CEO Marc Benioff.

Article: Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 2 Mar 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Microsoft's collaboration and portal product is quite different from the other portal offerings. Microsoft "Developer Evangelist" Sebastian Weber provides a nicely detailed and of course quite positive introduction to SharePoint, where you can learn about architecture, web parts (portlets in Redmond-speak) and much more.

Article: Future of Plone

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 21 Feb 2006 21:10:00 +0100

A roadmap was released last week for no less than three upcoming versions of Plone. Details include an upcoming maintenance release (2.1.3 -- notably with better WebDAV support), the next infrastructure release (2.5), and the next major release (3.0).

Article: Why do CMS projects go over budget?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wednesday, 15 Feb 2006 15:22:00 +0100

Nobody likes it, but too many IT projects cannot deliver on budget. Frequently additional funds need to be allocated to meet the agreed deliverables and even then, features are often slashed in the final weeks to meet the budget or deadline.

Article: The case for WSRP

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 8 Feb 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Summed up in a nice, detailed blog entry by Mike Fitzmaurice. He is a Sharepoint developer evangelist who concedes that Microsoft has traditionally not been "especially eager to promote WSRP."

Article: RedDot and Synkron begin move to .NET

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 4 Feb 2006 21:10:00 +0100

It seems like 2006 will be a major upgrade year, and not just for the large enterprise vendors. Those in the broader Microsoft ecosystem are already evolving. In Europe Hummingbird's RedDot will showcase its newest update at CEBIT in March.

Article: FatWire Still Likes Its Original Product

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:10:00 +0100

A little more than 2 years ago we reported on Vignette "liking its old dog food," running its public site on its old, V6 platform (still does: tell-tale URL). With FatWire the situation is just as bad. Parts of fatwire.com are still running on Update Engine (e.g. this page), the original FatWire product from before the acquisition of Content Server from divine.

Article: Stellent gets certified for SAP Portal

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:10:00 +0100

In recent news from Germany (auf deutsch), the local Stellent office announced that an integration with NetWeaver Portal, developed by an integrator partner, has been certified by SAP.

Article: Microsoft releases free migration tools for Notes/Domino

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:10:00 +0100

In a move to try to win a bigger share in the collaboration market, Microsoft has announced a series of free tools to help customers switch from Lotus Notes/Domino to Exchange and SharePoint.

Article: Liferay Portal skins contest

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 19 Jan 2006 21:10:00 +0100

The company behind the Liferay open source portal recently concluded a "portal themes contest." A "theme" -- often called a "skin" in other systems -- allows designers and developers to modify the look and feel of the portal without modifying the underlying portal code.

Article: SharePoint development team blog

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:10:00 +0100

Microsoft was late to both the Web CMS and Portal marketplaces, and did not get either right at first, but now Redmond seems to be moving ahead rapidly. Big changes are planned this year, as previously reported (here, here, and here), and now the SharePoint engineering team has created its own public blog.

Article: BroadVision carries on as a public company...for now

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tues, 10 Jan 2006 21:10:00 +0100

In July 2005 ailing portal vendor BroadVision announced their plans to go private and be acquired by a private equity company. It slipped our radar that in November the company then announced a "mutual termination of acquisition", due to "difficulty of securing a quorum in the stockholder vote."

Article: Indian marketplace: like everywhere else...but more so?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:10:00 +0100

Practice Manager of the Portals and Content Management group at Indian integrator Wipro, Apoorv Durga, has written an illuminating posting on 5 challenges for vendors in the Indian content management marketplace.

Article: Miro transfer Mambo rights for $1

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 21:10:00 +0100

As a follow up to recent split by the original Mambo development team, and subsequent forking, Australian vendor Miro recently issued a press release announcing that they have transferred all rights to Mambo Open Source CMS to the Mambo Foundation for 1 dollar.

Article: JBoss announces Portal 2.2

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 21 Dec 2005 21:10:00 +0100

The version-number indicates a point-release, but the recent release of open-source JBoss Portal includes significant new functionality, such as nested navigation, interportlet communication, search engine friendly URLs, failover, and clustering.

Article: Hyperwave survives into 2006

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:10:00 +0100

Austrian ECM vendor Hyperwave was close to going bust in early October, but the company recently announced finding a solution that "allows for the business to be continued, including the delivery of products, support and professional services."

Article: Web 2.0 focus for new free Sun Portal Server

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:10:00 +0100

Sun has just released version 7.0 of its portal platform, "Sun Java System Portal Server." Sun is trying to embrace the so-called "Web 2.0" by in their own words offering the "first platform to integrate wikis and other next-generation platforms."

Article: Typo3 magazine hits the stands in Germany

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:10:00 +0100

If you speak German, you can enjoy a new printed magazine about the open-source CMS, Typo3. In December, T3N Magazin came out with its second edition, featuring articles like "Typo3 version 4 preview" and "Load-balancing."

Article: Jetspeed 2.0 introduces bridges to other development frameworks

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thurs, 15 Dec 2005 21:10:00 +0100

The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team recently unveiled Jetspeed 2.0. An interesting new subproject is called "Portals-bridges" which includes common code and demos for the use of common web frameworks via portlets.

Article: To disambiguate "portal," don't use it

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:10:00 +0100

The term "portal" is one of the most misused words in the current software marketplace. Wikipedia shows this well with a long disambiguation page, where you can choose 13 different options varying from a metafictional device, a television show, a richly decorated grand entrance, and also a rather good definition of "Web portal."

Article: BEA will keep Plumtree as separate portal product until 2007

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 9 Dec 2005 21:10:00 +0100

In a recent outline of their portal consolidation plans, BEA announced that they will keep both portal product lines, BEA WebLogic Portal and the acquired Plumtree, throughout 2006. Plumtree recently released G6 of their portal product, which BEA is rebadging as "AquaLogic User Interaction."

Article: Swedish EPiServer joins Google partner program

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 8 Dec 2005 21:10:00 +0100

In a brief press release Swedish CMS vendor ElektroPost today announced that they have signed a partnership agreement with search giant Google.

Article: Life-cycle charts: too dizzying for questions?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 24 Nov 2005 21:10:00 +0100

In the November edition of Harvard Business Review, senior editor Gardiner Morse writes a brief forethought on information graphics.

Article: Hyperwave: going bust?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 5 Oct 2005 21:10:00 +0100

With up to 160 employees, customers like Audi, Telekom Austria, Deutsche Bahn and �20 million annual revenue, Austrian collaboration and compliance management vendor Hyperwave is not a small vendor.

Article: Kapow: boys with toys for content integration

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Fri, 30 Sept 2005 21:10:00 +0100

Kapow Technologies (headquartered in Denmark, but with a big USA presence) today announced version 6.0 of their RoboSuite integration product. Their tool enables "web clipping" using robots that are programmed visually.

Article: Oracle's Pluggable Middleware

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tues, 27 Sept 2005 21:10:00 +0100

At least one interesting piece of news came out of this week's Oracle OpenWorld. Oracle will begin to offer what it calls "hot-pluggable" middleware.

Article: Gov't-funded proprietary CMS in Denmark

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sun, 25 Sept 2005 21:10:00 +0100

Earlier this month we posted about a government-funded open-source solutions center in the UK. In Denmark, the government is active too, but in a different way. WebOffice is one of 181 registered active CMS tools in that small country.

Article: Joomla! -- Mambo has forked and created yet another CMS

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tues, 20 Sept 2005 21:10:00 +0100

Only 17 days after the Mambo development team split from an effort led by a private company (Miro International) to create a new Mambo Foundation, the former has launched a new product called Joomla! Joomla! is based on Mambo and initially fixes a series of bugs and security issues.

Article: Die hard for FatWire Spark

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 14 Sept 2005 21:10:00 +0100

After FatWire acquired the Content Server product line from divine in 2003, most commentators expected the original FatWire "Spark" product to fade away.

Article: BEA to acquire Plumtree

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:10:00 +0100

Last week BEA announced a definitive agreement to acquire Plumtree. Both companies have portal portfolios, which are among the most significant in the market.

Article: Synkron Announces New CEO

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 18 Aug 2005 21:10:00 +0100

Danish CMS vendor Synkron announced that their current CEO, Thomas Marschall, has resigned. A new one has been found at one at of Synkron's oldest and most faithful customers, Danish design flagship Bang and Olufsen.

Article: Eclipse Plug-in for JSR-170

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:10:00 +0100

There is a great deal of momentum around the open-source Eclipse IDE, but as previously mentioned, very few CMS vendors have noticed.

Article: FatWire announces sunset for Content Server 4.0

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thur, 21 July 2005 21:10:00 +0100

In an e-mail sent to business partners, FatWire has just announced the end-of-life or "sunset" of version 4 of its Content Server CMS as of December 30th, 2005 (the company will continue to support V4 through June, 2006).

Article: Make The Group The Guru

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Sat, 16 July 2005 21:10:00 +0100

In a recent Harvard Business Review article called "Your Company's Secret Change Agents" (free abstract), the authors suggest a bottom-up approach to creating lasting organizational change.

Article: Content management and delivery?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wen, 13 July 2005 21:10:00 +0100

Forrester has issued a paper on "Changing Perspectives on Content Delivery," where they encourage organizations "that need to deploy dynamic, personalized content experiences" to consider using CMS to deliver content instead of their application server.

Article: Identifying the Right Implementation Partner

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:22:00 +0100

Many organizations invest tremendous time and resources undertaking a thorough analysis to identify and select the right CMS. Unfortunately the same due diligence rarely happens when an implementation partner is selected -- even though implementation costs typically exceed licensing fees by orders of magnitude, and a rational buyer would assign their attention accordingly.

Article: JSR-170: What's in it for me?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:22:00 +0100

With the Content Repository API for Java Technology (aka JSR-170) specification coming to fruition, you might be wondering what this new standard brings to the table.

Article: Portal Software: Passing Fad or Real Value?

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Tuesday, 18 January 2005 11:22:00 +0100

We have been here before. A few years ago vendors were touting personalization software. A major buzzword of the dot-com age, personalization would ostensibly solve a series of business problems and enable a new IT paradigm.

Article: Practical Ideas for CMS Project Success

Janus Boye - jb@boyeit.dk — Thursday, 4 November 2004 11:22:00 +0100

Too many CMS projects fail to meet their objectives, or just fail outright. A well-documented cause is lack of commitment and understanding from senior management.