tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:59:53 +0000All about content enterprisehttp://www.contentprise.com/noreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)Blogger31125Contentprisehttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-6090690662970511252Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:10:00 +00002009-07-16T13:20:14.907+05:30TrendsArchitectureAquisitionsECMWCMFew days back Fatwire Software announced the launch of the Fatwire Rescue Program for Vignette and Interwoven WCM customers.The program will enable customers of Interwoven and Vignette to upgrade to FatWire’s WCM solutions at no license cost. However, this holds good only if they engage Fatwire’s supported or so-called ‘proven' migration tools and services.If you remember Fatwire already has a http://www.contentprise.com/2009/06/fatwire-content-integration-vs-content.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-6215169228863507879Tue, 26 May 2009 10:49:00 +00002009-05-27T11:51:43.246+05:30PortalsAquisitionsMarket ShareCollaborationIT analyst firm Gartner, Inc., has ranked IBM as the worldwide market share leader in the Portal Products and User Interaction Tools enterprise software segment. Here is my take -There is no question on the capabilities and functionalities of IBM WebSphere Portal V 6.1, which is well designed to collaborate the information from users, communities, corporate enterprises, and the Web. I will not http://www.contentprise.com/2009/05/how-ibm-is-1-in-web-portal-software.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-1707209345047097861Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:11:00 +00002009-04-27T12:19:39.634+05:30OpenSourcePortalsAquisitionsAnother big acquisition from shopaholic giant. Finally Oracle bought Sun Microsystems.Anyways..I'll leave other analysts to comment on hardware/storage/cloud computing and other areas. I am more interested to speculate the future of software products from Sun, example Sun Portal, Access Manager, Directory Server, and other open source projects. Here is my take in that - Oracle already have http://www.contentprise.com/2009/04/another-buyout-who-is-next.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-6272048781764277605Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:41:00 +00002009-02-06T19:28:02.500+05:30DMSECMWCMJust read Russ’s blog. It’s a nice post that made me think if there is a single ECM vendor who really managed to make their customer happy with full-fledged ECM requirements.I think its not only mergers and acquisitions that led the large or mid size, organization to have various sub-ECM products from different vendors but it’s the piling of softwares that grows during the period. The reasons mayhttp://www.contentprise.com/2009/02/all-in-one-ecm-vendors-tale.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-1417449274542097187Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:56:00 +00002009-01-26T11:39:27.062+05:30SearchAquisitionsECMWCMIt was a mixed feeling for me when I read about Autonomy acquiring Interwoven. Yes, it is a surprise move as quoted by cmswatch, but some of the industry observers see it as a pending acquisition. Both Interwoven and Autonomy are niche and big market players in their area. Where Autonomy has a huge customer base for its Infrastructure and Intelligent Search solution, Interwoven on the other hand http://www.contentprise.com/2009/01/interwoven-to-be-acquired-by-autonomy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-6186157784147139632Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:33:00 +00002009-01-26T11:58:33.711+05:30OpenSourcePortalsECMIntegrationsI’m currently seeing a new trend these days, it’s about portals and content management systems going above and beyond their technologies, language and platform to get integration with SharePoint. I have put my views on how Content Management Systems (Fatwire and Immediacy WCMs 6.1) are tending towards integrating with SharePoint. Now, it’s the open source portal which will come up with a similar http://www.contentprise.com/2009/01/lets-get-sharepoint-integrated.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-5906921287391380196Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:34:00 +00002009-01-26T11:41:50.913+05:30TrendsIntegrationsWCMFew days back Fatwire Introduced Microsoft SharePoint Connector as part of its Content integration platform. This new connector enables Fatwire CMS users to seamlessly access SharePoint content to use on the web. The Content Integration platform provides web-services-based, peer-to-peer content sharing capabilities that gives CMS users access to content stored across the enterprise without ever http://www.contentprise.com/2008/10/content-integration-platform-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-5804313233744749804Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:18:00 +00002009-01-26T11:44:39.136+05:30OpenSourcePortalsIntegrationsAfter Sun-Liferay partnership early this year, Sun Microsystems has releases a stable version of a new Portal (from common code base) codename Project WebSynergy. A stable build 2 of WebSynergy is also available for download. Here are some of the new features in this release –1. Portlet container 2.0: Complaint to JSR286 specs. Built on top of Open Portal Portlet container. Supports http://www.contentprise.com/2008/09/sun-liferay-and-project-websynergy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-4430726772379983530Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:03:00 +00002009-01-26T11:45:43.856+05:30TrendsArchitectureIntegrationsIt’s been quite some time that I am into responding RPFs and RFIs in Portal and Content Management space and sometimes jump onto implementation for the solution that we have provided :-) .This post highlights issues that project delivery faces when a customer hides the information of its existing software infrastructure during pre –engagement stage.Most of the customers do not supply enough http://www.contentprise.com/2008/01/rfps-implementation-scope-and-costs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-6680050631324517018Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:54:00 +00002009-01-26T11:46:29.854+05:30PortalsAquisitionsIntegrationsIs the portal market going to see another acquisition by Oracle? Though Bea has denied the deal of $6.66 bn as “too low”, but as we know Oracle has a history of acquiring BIG companies and maintaining multiple products of same line. BEA and Oracle own two Portal products each (Aqualogic and Weblogic) and (Oracle Portal and webcenter), respectively.If in case, the acquisition happens then in my http://www.contentprise.com/2007/10/oracle-bea-portalsportals-everywhere.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-1193657472316074962Tue, 29 May 2007 13:48:00 +00002009-01-26T11:47:25.388+05:30Web2.0ArchitectureCraig McClanahan talked on the Web2.0 at JAX India 2007.You can find more detilas about what he covered in Shishank's post. Here’s a bit of elaboration of those 10 points what Craig suggested to make the web right :-10 - Expose Data/Logic as services* Content is more important than presentation.* Use REST based Services when you “Can”* Use SOAP based Services when you “must”9 - Incorporate http://www.contentprise.com/2007/05/jax-india-2007-web20-what-you-should-do.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-1112882970630842249Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:19:00 +00002009-01-26T11:47:54.947+05:30TrendsPortalsECMIf Portals are the underlying technology for the presentation, aggregation, integration and SOA implementation (as every vendor talks about it ), then the Content Management System (CMS) is what feeds the portals.Portals have been designed to integrate with CMS products as a part of their offerings. At the same time they have come up with their own version of built-in CMS.Besides Partnering with http://www.contentprise.com/2007/04/portals-intruding-ecm-space.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-5931937483756919757Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:13:00 +00002009-01-26T11:48:27.850+05:30SOAPortalsIntegrationsFew days’ back I got to know about the something called “portal-like” . wow...a new word and a new concept after Collaboration, Web2.0 and SOA in the portal space. Drilled down a little deeper I came to know that this concept make sense when it comes to mid-size enterprise ,here it goes....Portals Implementation gives you the solution but with a huge investment of money, infrastructure, resourceshttp://www.contentprise.com/2007/02/portals-and-portal-like.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-114839064432498477Tue, 23 May 2006 13:23:00 +00002009-01-26T11:49:32.716+05:30SpecsSOAPortalsCollaborationService-oriented architecture (SOA) is the talk of the enterprise fraternity. Not only the business is getting benefited but the potential of SOA is affecting the speed of application development process.This buzzword strikes Portal technology as well. These days organizations are in the process of migrating from traditional client/server, monolithic or disparate n-tier architecture to a more http://www.contentprise.com/2006/05/enterprise-portal-and-service-oriented.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-114482224256814899Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:05:00 +00002009-01-26T11:50:14.323+05:30OpenSourceAquisitionsThe JBoss war has finally take a not so expected turn when Red Hat announced to acquire JBoss. Red Hat and JBoss have been recognized as open source leaders in their respective domains. The large and vibrant communities around Linux and JBoss prove that the open source development model creates innovative, quality software, while providing a flexible and low cost model for customers. This http://www.contentprise.com/2006/04/redhat-to-acquire-jboss.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-114076318594724655Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:34:00 +00002009-01-26T11:51:21.356+05:30OpenSourceAquisitionsThe cloud thickens on the strategy of the open source vendors….“The enterprise fraternity” are keen on acquiring smaller rival companies with open sourced software and after acquisition, only unveil a part of the software that remained open sourced before, Then doesn’t the whole idea of open source get flouted? Another heating debate could be on the possible reasons for acquiring such firms that http://www.contentprise.com/2006/02/enterprising-open-source.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-113885948315074581Thu, 02 Feb 2006 05:44:00 +00002009-01-26T11:52:06.066+05:30OpenSourceCollaboration..so the big guys finally collaborate to push AJAX in the opensource community. IBM, BEA Systems Inc., Borland International Inc., Novell Inc., Oracle Corp. and Red HatInc., have formed a group to contribute code and work together to promote use of AJAX., they will call it Open Ajax. This group will promote the use of Ajax tools with which developers can build rich Internet applications. The http://www.contentprise.com/2006/02/open-ajax-and-collaboration.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-113698973299262784Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:26:00 +00002009-01-26T11:53:01.341+05:30PortalsCollaborationThe New Year heralds new realizations derived from the bygone year’s developments and thus, exploring options in the Collaborative portals space. The concept of Collaborative portals was an extension of the idea from commercial to business and organization’s infrastructural needs. It always was a challenge to achieve a single point of access as the teams are geographically distributed and mobile.http://www.contentprise.com/2006/01/eye-on-collaborative-portals.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-113474134104040562Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:44:00 +00002009-01-26T11:54:17.143+05:30PortalsECMCollaborationIntegrationsAnother big hit by Sun Microsystems Inc today by announcing major enhancements to the Java Enterprise System with a new version of the Sun Java System Portal Server(version 7) that will provide developers and customers with collaborative features and identity-based content through web-based applications.As Collaborative Portals are speedily replacing the traditional portal features and http://www.contentprise.com/2005/12/suns-collaborative-portal-server-7.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-113436588828852758Mon, 12 Dec 2005 04:36:00 +00002009-01-26T11:54:41.578+05:30OpenSourcePortalsWith the release of the Jetspeed 2.0 Open Source Enterprise Portal , I believe that Open Source Portals are in the way of changing their Portal Architecture not just by enhancing their Security components but also a combination of both LDAP and the Database as a Backend.Now what kind of data Jetspeed 2.0 has put on LDAP and what all info is there in underlying database can only be gathered by http://www.contentprise.com/2005/12/jetspeed-20-open-source-enterprise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-113402402610686163Thu, 08 Dec 2005 06:37:00 +00002009-01-26T11:55:06.249+05:30OpenSourcePortalsFinally… after a long wait and the market evaluations on changing trends and expectations from the developer community for open source versions , the Boss ie, Sun Microsystems Inc. has come up with its open-source offerings for core software products .This is a very strategic move that could have long-term implications on the company's image and make people accept and enhance Java and its http://www.contentprise.com/2005/12/open-sun-new-era.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-113353403852317517Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:30:00 +00002009-01-26T11:55:50.148+05:30WCMFatwire Software, today announced FatWire Content Server 6.3, the latest version of its Content Management Platform, and FatWire Analytics, the newest module in the Content Server product family.New features in Content Server 6.3 include :InSite Templating - New InSite Templating capabilities add to existing InSite Editing features that let non-technical users edit content from within the contexthttp://www.contentprise.com/2005/12/fatwire-content-server-63.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-113341627426010263Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:49:00 +00002005-12-01T11:58:58.176+05:30Mozilla releases Firefox 1.5 yesterday. Firefox is also one of the most widely distributed open source programs, meaning anyone can use and modify the codeThe new Version has come up with many small/big features..here are few..1- More sophisticated security and performance features.2- Support for new web programming standards, such as AJAX, that enable more graphical capabilities in Web pages3- http://www.contentprise.com/2005/11/firefox-15-released.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-113289441676554322Sat, 05 Nov 2005 04:46:00 +00002009-01-26T11:56:24.196+05:30IntegrationsSun Microsystems announced that it would beginincluding the PostgreSQL database with Solaris 10 as soon as possible , and will immediately offer full support for it, as well as fully integrate the software into the operating system over the next several months.PostgreSQL will be the second database included with Solaris, though it is expected to be made a more major part of the OS than http://www.contentprise.com/2005/11/sun-to-integrate-postgresql-into.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14920576.post-113289488132850984Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:58:00 +00002009-01-26T11:56:44.841+05:30OpenSourceNokia launched OpenSource.nokia.com today. It is the first place to look for information concerning Nokia involvement in the Open Source community.The Projects page lists all Nokia developed downloadable code.The website also features a list of all projects Nokia contributed to."http://www.contentprise.com/2005/11/nokia-and-opensource.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (LOKESH PANT)0