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February 15, 2008

Further validation of SaaS and DITA as market driver

SDL’s acquisition of Idiom confirms and accelerates some core, strategic shifts within the content management ecosystem. More than anything, it appears to be another in a series of market validations that Component Content Management (CCM), driven by the widespread adoption...

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November 26, 2007

Social Networks and Manufacturing Collaboration

New technologies that are consumer friendly have always run into opposition from IT groups in large corporations. Initially, there was widespread resistance to allowing internet access (oddly enough, a lot of companies still restrict access), and each successive generation of...

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November 13, 2007

Adobe on Fast Forward

Adobe’s unexpected announcement of a new CEO triggers a number of interesting questions, the most relevant of which is probably, what next? Shantanu Narayen is taking the reins of company that’s in very good shape; they’ve got strong revenue growth...

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October 26, 2007

Rich Media, Social Networks, Dynamic Content, and On-Demand

There’s an interesting confluence that’s just starting to gain traction in the enterprise. This is the intersection of rich media, social networking, dynamic content management and the on-demand business model.Rich media applications are already in play on some level in...

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October 19, 2007

Adobe gets SaaSy

Adobe recently announced the availability of a browser based authoring tool through the acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity and the release of a beta version of Share, an on-line documentation collaboration tool. This seems like an odd foray for Adobe, particularly...

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October 05, 2007

Magic or Illusion?

The folks at Gartner have come up with another iteration of their “Magic” quadrant for ECM vendors, with what appears to be a very short-sighted perspective—an intentional exclusion of SaaS vendors as part of the market for content management software....

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September 25, 2007

Adobe's Technical Communication Suite--Getting Closer

This morning Adobe announced the availability of their Technical Communication Suite. While the offering is broad and appears to be tightly integrated, its still just shy of where it needs to be in terms of addressing critical requirements for true...

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