Google and Slack Partner to Keep Microsoft, Facebook at Bay
Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Digital Clarity Group Vice President and Managing Director of VOCalis, was quoted today in an article on CMS Wire about a new partnership between Google and Slack.
DCG research and articles about: Microsoft
Extending ECM to Office 365 fills in missing pieces
Over the past two years there’s been a lot of discussion about the future of ECM. Some old-timers form the vanguard by defending ECM systems that are (quite honestly) sometimes challenging to deploy, manage and use. Others like how products such as Dropbox, Box, and Microsoft OneDrive for Business are easier and cheaper to deploy,… read more >
Is HubSpot reaching an inflection point?
This week HubSpot held their annual conference, drawing 19,000 devotees of the marketing solution to Boston. Think of it as a sort of mini-me version of Salesforce’s mega-conference Dreamforce. While I am not a fan of celebrity-heavy and technology light conferences, there was much to admire about InBound beyond Anna Kendrick and Serena Williams. For… read more >
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 >
Theories about Microsoft’s LinkedIn Acquisition
Today Scott Liewehr, co-founder and CEO of Digital Clarity Group, was quoted in a CMS Wire article that shared various theories about Microsoft’s recent, somewhat confusing, $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn. Microsoft: Becoming Service Driven? In a nutshell, perhaps Microsoft wants to take a page from Apple’s playbook and move into services. “Everyone will say… read more >
Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn is an entree into services
I’m going to try something new. I’m not in an environment where I can write a full blogpost about Microsoft’s planned acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2B. But, rather than not commenting at all, I’m going to post a few thoughts for your consideration: Everyone will say this is about Microsoft entering the enterprise social media… read more >
No Joke: Sitecore is (finally) acquired (sort of)
It takes a lot of courage to announce anything, let alone an investment transaction worth more than $1 billion, on April Fools Day. But this one is serious: Stockholm-based private equity firm EQT has taken a “significant” majority interest in Sitecore, the Denmark-based content and experience management vendor. A new “EUnicorn” The deal values Sitecore… read more >
Digital Asset Management Round-Up, August 2015
Digital Clarity Group’s DAM round-up condenses and consolidates some of the most topical news and happenings from the digital asset management industry from the past month or so. This month’s round-up covers , The Guardian’s home grown DAM, ADAM’s Microsoft Azure certification, and Canto updates to its enterprise suite. The Guardian Releases Open Source ‘Grid’… read more >
Web Content Management Round-Up, May 2015
What’s new in Web Content Management? Adobe announces a strategic partnership with Microsoft. OpenText plans to cut its workforce by 5%. Appnovation Donates $30,000 to Drupal 8 Accelerate. Hippo releases Hippo CMS v10. Automattic Acquires WordPress Service Provider WooThemes. Mura CMS launches a Mura CMS Themes Competition… read more >
Web Content Management Round-Up, March 2015
The Web Content Management Systems market is crowded, competitive, and fast-moving. With so many vendors and solutions, it can be hard to keep on top of all the latest developments, particularly if your job responsibilities are based around only one CMS platform (or a selected few). This review brings together recent highlights from across the… read more >
