There is not shortage of vendors in the CMS marketplace. The European marketplace in particular seems very fragmented with many local vendors. When the familiar US-based analysts take a look at the marketplace, they often end up favouring the same large vendors and ignoring the many local vendors that are doing great work in many countries across Europe.
I’ve been intending to create a Top 10 list of European CMS vendors, but before arriving at an actual shortlist, I wanted to get a better understanding of the many vendors that are claiming to be leading.
To help me learn, I’ve created a table with European CMS vendors and encouraged everybody to submit input and potential omissions.
As usual, my intention with this list is to help equip CMS buyers, to be able carry out CMS selections on their own and to get a clear overview of their local country marketplace.
I’m expecting that the list might explode and have created some rules for making it onto the list. Feel free to challenge me, either by posting a comment on this blog, or sending an e-mail.
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Bertrand November 30th, 2009 9:35
A few more details about eZ:
Platform = PHP
Size = 60 employees
Strong countries = norway, france, germany, spain, denmark, UK
I’m not really sure about the weak countries, somebody else will have to step out. And these should respect your rules.
Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer December 3rd, 2009 9:35
Janus, did you see the overview the 451 group made about the OS CMS vendors (‘OS’ license, VC funding, office location, year started). I thought that could be interesting to add to your spreadsheet.
A few more details about Hippo:
Platform = Java
Size = 50 employees
Strong countries = US, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Canada, France, Germany, UK, China, India
As our product is open source, we see it popup everywhere. So it’s hard to speak about weak country’s.
I’m also not really sure about the weak countries, somebody else will have to step out. And these should respect your rules.
So I end with the quote of eZ
Pauli Østerø December 3rd, 2009 9:35
DynamicWeb
Platform: .Net
Size: 120 (according to their website (http://www.dynamicweb-cms.com/About-us-27863.aspx)
Strong in: Denmark, Faroe Islands
Composite
Platform: .Net
Size: ??
Strong in: Denmark, Greenland
Anders B. Skjønaa December 8th, 2009 9:35
Great overview – you might want to add Sitefinity (www.sitefinity.com) to the list as well…
David Matheson January 27th, 2012 9:35
You’ve omitted Dynamicweb which meets all your criteria and which is in Gartners Magic Quadrant for WCMS in 2010 and in 2011.
Licensing: Commercial (License and SaaS)
Platform: .Net
Size: 40+
Strong countries: DK/SE/NO/NL (Emerging: PL/ES/PT/BR/UK)
Weak: Rest of world
Wer Wolf January 27th, 2012 9:35
Nice Overview,
so you count internet portal Software in as well?
When do you plan to update the list of European SW Vendors?
Greetings,
Wolf
Janus Boye January 29th, 2012 9:35
Thanks for all your input on this one.
I just updated the table. See
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tFsgr9oK6C8D1cgbmERMvLA&output=html
Please keep it coming
Robert Bredlau January 30th, 2012 9:35
Hi Janus,
.
nice list but maybe you aren´t 100% up-to-date, but since we haven´t spoken for quite some time (and as far as I know you aren´t following on Twitter anymore
Germany is obviously our home market but we do have in the meantime “local” references in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden, UK and France – not mentioning our large and enterprise customers, using FirstSpirit globally (which are based in Europe, Africa and the USA).
rgds,
Robert