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Sitecore annual report: a very successful software company
January 6th, 2011 by Janus Boye
No Comments| annual report, sitecore
It somehow slipped my radar that WCM-vendor Sitecore released their annual report back in November. Once again they managed to post record numbers with increasing revenue, profit and capital base. Revenue is now at DKK 131 million (up from DKK 79 million) with net earnings at DKK 38 million (up from DKK 18 million). The …
Selecting a Web CMS: Case study from Oticon
December 15th, 2010 by Janus Boye
2 Comments| case, cms selection, gartner, pentia, sitecore, success
Selecting a new Web CMS can be a daunting process, in particular at a large, complex and global company. Danish hearing aid manufacturer Oticon (3,000+ employees, customers in 100+ countries) went through the selection process using industry best practices in a 4-step process, which took a total of 7 months. The website was a corner …
Why pay for Sitecore when you can get Umbraco for free?
February 16th, 2010 by Janus Boye
5 Comments| .net, sitecore, umbraco
After a recent briefing with a Danish system integrator, I started speculating on whether Umbraco CMS might be on track to steal market share from Sitecore in the marketplace for .NET-based content management systems. Others have mentioned the possible trend to me in the past, but is it really happening? Comparing open source Umbraco and …
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 …
Sitecore posts record numbers again
December 14th, 2009 by Janus Boye
7 Comments| annual report, sitecore
Earlier this month Danish CMS vendor Sitecore released their annual report showing record profits and revenue. Compared to last year (see our comment), revenue went up from DKK 56 million to DKK 79 million and profit increased from DKK 20 million to 25 million. Sitecore has also grown from 120 to 160 employees worldwide. For …
Sitecore winners of Web Idol at Aarhus 2009
November 9th, 2009 by Janus Boye
2 Comments| sitecore, web idol
Congratulations to the Sitecore team who defended the prestigious Web Idol competition in Aarhus at the J. Boye Conference last week and once again took home the enormous trophy. Sitecore beat competing CMS vendors e-Spirit, Microsoft and Terminalfour as well as data migration vendor Kapow and video start-up 23. Just like in 2008, it was …
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 …
New Sitecore version – why bother?
August 11th, 2009 by Peter Sejersen
12 Comments| sitecore
In June this year CMS vendor Sitecore proudly announced the release of version 6.1 branded using the enjoyable acronym OMS (Online Marketing Suite). The press release describes OMS as (…) a breakthrough for organizations now able to unify Web content management capabilities, Web analytics and marketing automation for greater customer engagement and personalization. Informed buyers …
Don’t buy licenses from your system integrator
May 20th, 2009 by Janus Boye
7 Comments| contract, episerver, maturity, sitecore, system integrator
This week I’ve talked to several members in our community of practice who were all of the impression that CMS licenses can only be bought from system integrators. This is undoubtedly in the interest of your system integrator, but for the vendors I cover, you can buy the software directly from the vendor as well. …
Smart practitioners have harmless URLs
December 15th, 2008 by Janus Boye
8 Comments| architecture, cms, episerver, eZ, fatwire, sitecore, success, url
I’m not that technical, but I’m frustrated that the problem with harmful URLs doesn’t seem to want to go away. Microsoft’s very own Jon Udell started 2008 with a very well written comment on .aspx considered harmful, but .aspx is still the standard default used in most SharePoint 2007-driven public websites. Over at CMS Watch, …
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