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Beware of the flaw of averages

Nonsensical: the latest Digital Experience Platform Wave from Forrester

When the large technology research firms produce foolhardy reports, our response is typically an eye-roll – Ho hum, there they go again. But, while mostly futile, those vendor plot graphs generate a lot of revenue, so we understand that they have to churn them out regularly to keep the business afloat, and thus, the resulting reports can’t all be… read more >

Digital Clarity Group

Microsoft & Adobe Get Serious

Today Microsoft announced a strategic partnership with Adobe making Azure the primary cloud platform for Adobe while integrating Marketing Cloud with Dynamics365, its combined CRM/ERP solution. It’s all too easy to dismiss partnerships as little more than marketing ploys. For example, Oracle announced a ‘major’ partnership with Salesforce a couple of years back, and this… read more >

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OpenText: Tackling the biggest of channel challenges

This year the OpenText World event was held in Nashville, TN and visiting Music City gave Cathy McKnight and I the chance to directly take the pulse of the firms’ senior executives, partners and customers. Though there were product and roadmap announcements galore, most notably the daring announcement that the firm plans to challenge IBM… read more >

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Marketo goes private with puzzling acquisition by Vista Equity Partnership

Update:  Listen to analysts from Digital Clarity Group and Constellation Research in a recorded live webcast about the Marketo deal. Well, they say timing is everything, and so it seems I was just a day off in my Marketing Automation Round-up post, in which I speculated on  Marketo‘s impending acquisition. The cloud-based marketing automation platform (MAP) company was acquired today (May… read more >

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Rumors swirl EMC wants to dump Documentum ahead of Dell acquisition

Just last month Dell dumped Perot Systems for $3.05 billion, around half of the reported asking price. Other deals are reportedly in the works for Quest and Sonicwall. Now it’s time for the baby to sell some stuff too and Documentum is a logical choice. As for Documentum, it could actually be a relief for… read more >

Marketplace

E-Commerce Round-Up, August 2015

E-Commerce Round-Up covers major recent events and news from the past month in the commerce world, and provides a brief analysis of what they mean. This month’s Round-Up covers new funding for online marketplace provider Mirakl, new ecommerce service provider acquisitions and partners, and the prospects for celebrity ecommerce. The rise of the Saas online… read more >

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Is your home-grown e-commerce solution weighing you down?

There are a lot of great big happy projections hitting the headlines about e-commerce growth and its potential. In 2014, the global e-commerce market reportedly exceeded $1.3 trillion, lead by the US and China. And apparently this is just the beginning: the US Department of Commerce says that just 7% of US retail is online…. read more >

CMS-Connected

CMS-Connected: 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WCM

One of the audience’s favorite shows of the year. DCG President Scott Liewehr pulls no punches in his analysis of the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management. Who were the winners, losers and who has no reason to even be listed? Watch this episode to see DCG President and CMS-Connected co-host, Scott Liewehr,… read more >

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J.Boye European Oracle WebCenter Sites User Group

June 12, 2014, London, UK. Selecting the Right Digital Agency, Marianne Kay Event website: J.Boye European Oracle WebCenter Sites User Group read more >

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Where Have All the WCM Cowboys Gone?

Happy New Year. Here we are in 2014 and Web Content Management is in a funk. Yep, I said it. The entire sector is in danger of becoming an afterthought.  Ask yourself a question: when was the last time a WCM solution provider actually made some really interesting news, or got the market talking about… read more >

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