When to Abandon your Web CMS
On November 19th Butch Stearns, Scott Liewehr and our special guest Marianne Kay discussed when is the right time to abandon your Web CMS. WCM platforms have evolved with features and functionality that go way beyond simply managing content. However, with so much overlap such as e-commerce, social media, globalization, marketing automation, CRM, and a wide variety of technology stacks, choosing which system offers the best fit for your particular circumstances is a daunting task.
This show demonstrated different business models & roadmaps for deciding which types of technologies provide the best long-term fit for your needs. Also, Amy Martyn from Falcon-Software reviewed an e-commerce platform-as-a-service vendor – commercetools.
Nov 2015 - Show Segments
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Computer-maker Dell recently struck a deal to buy data storage company EMC Corp for $67-billion, setting a record in the technology industry.
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Acquia announces they have secured $55 million in venture capital, a scant 16 months after nabbing over $50 million in its last round of funding.
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Sitecore recently announced the full availability of Sitecore Experience Platform XP 8.1, the next generation of its flagship product. Sitecore XP 8.1 enables marketers to turn every customer interaction into an extraordinary experience.
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It’s not “business as usual” in the ECM marketplace, Gartner analysts Hanns Koehler-Kruener, Kenneth Chin and Karen A. Hobert concluded in a new Magic Quadrant report on enterprise content management.
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Scott Liewehr and Butch Stearns welcome Marianne Kay, an experienced CMS consultant with Digital Clarity Group to discuss the right time to abandon your Web CMS.
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Amy Martyn from Falcon-Software gives us her in depth review of commercetools, a provider of individually customizable eCommerce solutions as Platform-as-a-Service.
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“We will schedule an official release date for version 8 when we are confident that the rate and nature of incoming critical bugs has slowed enough to ensure a stable release”. See what analyst, Scott Liewehr has to say.
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Watch the full 60-min CMS-Connected show including headline news segments, featured topic, vendor spotlight and CMS Insider.