In our SharePoint
Report 2008 we discuss SharePoint's shortcomings and strengths in the
search space. While SharePoint 2007's search capabilities have been improved
over the 2003 product, it's still not "enterprise class" for a variety
of different reasons.
Clearly Microsoft saw this same shortcoming (both in SharePoint and it's overall
search offerings) and an ...
Our new SharePoint
Report explains how one of the core challenges with the platform --
dating from inception through to MOSS 2007 -- is that the needs of a collaboration
service often conflict with the requirements of other information services,
particularly around website publishing.
One example: like many other portal vendors, by default MOSS wants to insert
a lot of ...
Our partners in Denmark, J. Boye, have just published a white paper, Wiki
in the Enterprise.
There are many useful nuggets in the research (including a handy project check-list),
but what I liked best about the paper is that it clearly contrasts the real
value of wikis in a workgroup setting with the thorny challenges that wikis
present enterprises once they evolve beyond a ...
"Recycling" information (a.k.a., "content reuse") is a
critical goal for most content management systems. On this Earth
Day 2008, I thought it appropriate to share another green
movement that's emerging in the content management industry. While researching
SaaS (Software
as a Service) solutions for The
Web CMS Report 2008, I talked to several customers who sta ...
Last week we received an e-mail from an IT staffer at an outfit that is looking
to buy a Web CMS tool, with PaperThin's
CommonSpot and RedDot
CMS (part of the extended Open Text family) under particular consideration.
The e-mail was a forwarded message from a RedDot salesperson, excerpting significant
pieces of our Web CMS Report
2008 to make CommonSpot look bad and RedDot look g ...