In today’s content-driven online environment, the ability to effectively deliver engaging, accurate, relevant information in the right format at the right time via the right channel is imperative for any successful content strategy. Finding the ‘best-fit’ Web Content Management System (WCMS) to facilitate managing the content on your public, intranet and/or extranet websites is one… read more >
It was an exciting weekend for the folks at Ektron, having received a second round of growth equity funding from their primary backer, private equity firm Accel-KKR. Unfortunately, they learned a hard lesson about public relations in the process. While their announcement said they received a “significant” investment, their inspired base of ex-employees illegally leaked documents… read more >
Building further on Scott’s post about the market implications of the Sapient acquisition by Publicis Groupe, he is right – the Publicis Groupe’s proposed acquisition of Sapient is different, as will be the impact on its customers. Past agency meldings have translated into little more than a name and executive leadership change. After all, many… read more >
I wanted to try something a little different for this post. I’m doing an assessment of what went wrong with Alfresco for a Canadian university. They purchased Alfresco back in 2008/09, initially to handle some of their web content needs. Things haven’t gone so well. Below is a quick wrap up email I sent to the project… read more >
Since our founding, my colleagues at DCG and I have prided ourselves on providing research and thought leadership that are forward-looking, actionable, and clear. We ensure that everything we do is grounded in these principles. As president, one of my most important roles is to grow our team with talented professionals who can deliver on all three… read more >
Customer Experience Management – It’s a big deal. And it’s important. That’s why we’ve created the Guide to Service Providers for Web Content and Customer Experience Management – the 2014 North American update to research originally published in 2013. Service providers are an integral part of any CEM implementation. So integral, in fact, that without… read more >
For decades “It’s got a good beat and you can dance to it” or some variation of that sentence was heard over and over on American Bandstand’s Rate-a-Record segment – often in complete disregard as to whether you actually could dance to the tune in question, good beat, or not. Arbitrary and subjective, these ratings… read more >
If I were to start an enterprise software company today, I’d give the licenses away. No, I am not thinking about open source at all. I’m thinking about services, non-core functionality, and integration. I’ll stick to Enterprise Content Management software, but the principles are applicable to any enterprise grade platforms or suites (we can debate… read more >
A Proof of Concept (PoC) and “Bake-Off” are not the same thing, although many people treat them as such. To clarify, a “Bake-Off” is a pitting of two or more vendors against each other to compare their products and services, supposedly providing a side-by-side comparison of compatibility and capability with the intent on selecting a… read more >
Our latest Insight Paper, The CEM Imperative: Customer Experience in the Age of the Empowered Consumer, establishes that customer experience management is no longer an option, a nice-to-have, or a remote step in the five year strategic plan. On the contrary, the mobile and social empowerment of consumers makes CEM an inescapable, compulsory, and essential… read more >
