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Google searches for Tridion, Fatwire and Reddot

Jules — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:05:27 +0000

Google searches for Tridion, Fatwire and Reddot, interesting: http://tinyurl.com/klccxl

Vignette posts its Enterprise WCM Vendor Meme

Jules — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:41:20 +0000

Vignette has posted its reply to the reality checklist for vendors posted on CMS Watch a few weeks back.

When Vignette posted their answer to the reality checklist, they pointed out that maybe it was not really for them. Now the vendors that responded to the last meme as well as those who did not respond now have the chance to answer this set of questions.

You can find the Enterprise WCM Vendor Meme on Vignettes facebook page.

I’ll try and keep track like last time and I am eagerly awaiting a response from Day. I’ll tag all those who responded last time plus a few more: Day Software, SDL Tridion, Autonomy Interwoven, Fatwire, Heartcore, Hippo CMS, Jahia, Magnolia, EPiServer, GX, Midgard, Nuxeo, infopark, KnowledgeTree, Alfresco, GX, CoreMedia, Sitecore, Alterian, OpenText, dotCMS, Autonomy Interwoven, Escenic.

Oh and of course: Meme ID 9c56d0fcf93175d70e1c9b9d188167cf. Find more related pages on Google.

CMS Vendors go head to head

Jules — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:12:34 +0000

A few weeks back CMS Watch’s Kas Thomas posted his “reality checklist” for CMS vendors. Each vendor should ask themselves 15 tough questions about their product. Now Day has put down the challenge to all other CMS vendors, the CMS Vendor meme, to answer the questions from the check list.

Now, next to Day the CMS vendors have been posting their scores. Currently the leaderboard looks like:

44/45 – e-Spirit ***
43/45 – Jahia
43/45 – Hippo CMS
42/45 - Magnolia
42/45 – EPiServer
42/45 – GX *
42/45 – Midgard
42/45 – Nuxeo **
41/45 – infopark
41/45 – KnowledgeTree
40.5/45 – Enano
40/45 - Day
40/45 – Alfresco
40/45 – GX
40/45 – CoreMedia
40/45 – Sitecore
40/45 – Alterian
40/45 – OpenText
40/45 – Ez Systems
38/45 – dotCMS
37/45 – Vignette
37/45 – Autonomy Interwoven
36/45 – Escenic
33/45 – Sense/Net

bold scores are where the vendor did not score themselves but it was subsequentally worked out by Jon Marks
* Score adjusted to reflect original scoring system
** Vendor does not seem to be able to add up
*** Was 45, now 44

Many of the answers to the checklist are very tongue in cheek but many of the questions do not really go deep. Mostly the questions surround how available software is either to download, easy it is to install or how clear the pricing is. These are indeed important things but I do feel the list missing something more concrete. Only two of the questions (3 & 7), for instance, address something to do with content editing. Surely this is one of the most important areas to cover and thus deserves more attention?

Of course this list is not a complete check list, but it seems more tuned towards vendors such as Alfresco as most of these types of vendors will probably score highly. However, it is nice to see the vendors interacting together and at least, it seems, giving honest scores.

Update 19/03/2009: Adding the meme ID 9c56d0fcf93175d70e1c9b9d188167cf suggested by Bertrand Delacrétaz. Find more related pages on Google.

Update 19/03/2009: Added infopark

Update 19/03/2009: Added dotCMS and Midgard (no scores yet though)

Update 19/03/2009: Added Vignette (no score either)

Update 20/03/2009: Added Nuxe (finally a score!)

Update 20/03/2009: Updated Escenic’s score

Update 21/03/2009: Added Sitecore’s, EPiServer’s & OpenText’s scores

Update 22/03/2009: Added Autonomy Interwoven (no score)

Update 23/03/2009: Added Alterian & Hippo CMS

Update 25/03/2009: Updated scores according to Jon Marks blog

Update 27/03/2009: Added KnowledgeTree

Update 02/04/2009: Added Enano

Update 03/04/2009: Added Ez Systems

Update 09/04/2009: added e-Spirit & Sense/Net

Update 15/04/2009: Updated e-Spirit score