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Darden Restaurants: CMS selection in a large enterprise
January 19th, 2011 by Peter Sejersen
No Comments| case, cms selection, ektron, wcm
In 2010 American enterprise Darden Restaurants selected and implemented a new CMS. An interesting process, so I caught Darden’s Director of Interactive Marketing, Michael Friedman to hear how they did it. Darden owns and operates around 1,800 restaurants and employs approximately 180,000 people. The business is divided into 6 different brands, so when they set out …
eIntranet: A costly toolbox for stage 1 intranets
July 8th, 2010 by Janus Boye
3 Comments| ektron, intranet
“The symptoms of an ailing intranet are not hard to recognize: poor adoption, irritated users, failed tasks, and ingenious (but unproductive) workarounds in order to avoid the intranet altogether.” – Forrester Research Using this analyst quote to push their message, US-based CMS vendor Ektron has started promoting eIntranet, a new intranet application focused on making …
Why the finances of software vendors matter
January 24th, 2010 by Janus Boye
5 Comments| annual report, ektron, fatwire, finance, google, ibm, microsoft cms, sitecore, vignette
I’ve regularly covered annual reports, earnings announcements and other financial news about software vendors. These commentaries tend to stir debate and I am frequently asked why I bother to look behind the numbers. Is it really important? Many vendors, in particular privately-held US-based ones, don’t publicly release audited numbers. Instead they carefully select a few …
Was August good for Ektron?
September 25th, 2009 by Janus Boye
3 Comments| earnings, ektron
US-based Web CMS vendor Ektron recently announced that August 2009 was a record-breaking month for them. It is quite unusual for CMS vendors to release news about monthly performance, but Ektron did post a 96% increase in sales. Ektron must have felt that this story was too good to keep to themselves. Let us examine …
Who should be on your CMS shortlist?
August 12th, 2009 by Janus Boye
45 Comments| alfresco, cms, cms selection, cms watch, day, drupal, ektron, episerver, fatwire, forrester, gartner, joomla, microsoft, plone, sitecore, tridion, typo3, umbraco, wordpress
Selecting the right CMS is not an easy task with; there is in excess of 1,000 vendors in the very dynamic CMS marketplace. Unfortunately industry analysts tend to evaluate too many vendors for the needs of most buyers. Consider CMS Watch which has 42 systems in their Web CMS Report and Gartner with 18 vendors …
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