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Developers know that Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) go a long way in improving productivity and shortening time to market. Some vendors in the marketplaces we cover ship with their own proprietary IDEs, while many others use a plugin to (or otherwise extend) the popular Eclipse or Visual Studio IDEs

Last week I received a message from a friend discussing the annual fees his firm pays for their hosted Web CMS. The CMS and associated website are served up by a well-known, Software as a Service (“SaaS”) WCM vendor

Lucid Imagination, the commercial company that distributes its own certified versions of the open source Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, has raised $10 million in Series B funding from a series of venture capital firms

I hope you can join me 15 April for a great conference (Midwest SharePoint 2010 Conference), at a great venue (Italian Conference Center), in a great city (Milwaukee, WI, USA), on a Great Lake (Michigan)

Last month we updated several WCM vendor evaluations, including

There’s a debate raging within Twitter about whether traditional blogging platform WordPress is also a CMS

I get that question a lot, especially since one of our main services is called "CMS Watch"

Microblogging is the quintessential "keep it simple" service.  So when a vendor adds a seemingly minor new feature, that’s relatively big news

My colleague Alan has produced two short briefings of special interest to content technology selection teams

IBM has released its IBM Security Solutions X-Force 2009 Trend and Risk Report, and the news for users of popular WCM platforms Drupal, Joomla!, TYPO3, and WordPress is decidedly mixed

In case you weren’t thinking "interoperability&quot was EMC’s middle name, EMC hopes to convince the world otherwise with its EDN Monster Mash — a Developer Challenge designed to showcase the mashability of EMC’s Celerra, Centerra, Documentum, and Atmos Online product lines

Does Google Analytics’ new availability on apps.gov mean unfettered availability of the free analytics tool for US federal government agencies? A story in SearchEngineWatch might lead you to think so, but key leaders in the Federal web analytics community point out

There’s a question that keeps popping up around our industry: "What is Enterprise Content Management?"

We wrote just the other week about the potential of using devices such as Apple’s iPad for accessing enterprise documents. What seemed like good idea for the future turns out to be almost in the here and now

Today we released a new advisory paper, "How the New Platforms vs. Products Debate Impacts Your Success." Subscribers to any of our EI Watch, SharePoint Watch, and CMS Watch research streams can

On the document-management shortlist of a mid sized publishing firm this month lay four bidders: a specialist incumbent, two household name vendors (IBM & Microsoft), and an open source option

Over the last few weeks there has been a flurry of media interest in the fact that SAP is reselling EMC Documentum and Open Text products. It’s a flurry (bordering on blizzard) that is of little or no relevance to actual buyers of these software products

For years now Google has played fast and loose with information confidentiality and privacy issues. As if further proof were needed

Iron Mountain the records management services giant today announced that it was buying e-mail archiving vendor Mimosa. Mimosa is certainly one of the more

Mega-vendor Open Text announced today that it would acquire fellow Canadian vendor, NStein. NStein was known mostly for its text-mining / text analytics tools, but over the years took a circuitous route