By Glenn Rossman  eZ Systems, the world´s largest open source content management software company, announced today that former IBM and BEA executive Christoph Rau will join the company as CEO, effective immediately. Nov. 5, 2009 06:15 PM EST Reads: 224 |
By Paul Nowak  Plone and Drupal are two leading open source Content Management Systems (CMS). Both were recognized in the 2009 Open Source CMS awards, run by Packt Publishing. Both also have large installed bases and large developer communities. This is made evident by some quick searching on Googl... Nov. 3, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 747 Replies: 3 |
By Brad Windecker  Here's a little Drupal Tip O' the Day for our readers. As many of you know, we're platform agnostic here at Orchestra (meaning we run Macs, Linux, Windows and more), so we often end up discovering little tricks and tips about our different OSes. For those of you building a Drupal websi... Oct. 29, 2009 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 575 |
By Jeff Blackwell  Marketing, in more the one way, is like juggling. This strange analogy will become crystal clear if we take a close look at it. Just like the juggler the marketer too has to do these things to thrive in his business: first, he has to hook his audience; gain their attention through seve... Oct. 19, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 521 |
By Ambal Balakrishnan  42 content marketing tactics, over 50 case studies and hundreds of resources - "The Content Marketing Playbook: 42 Ways to Connect with Customers" is packed with lots of ideas to execute on your content strategy. Read on to get an insider look into the making of "The Content Marketing ... Oct. 13, 2009 04:48 AM EDT Reads: 143 |
By Oracle News Desk  Extending the enterprise-wide Project Portfolio Management (PPM) capabilities of Oracle's Primavera product suite, Oracle today announced new releases of Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Oracle's Primavera Contract Management. The new Primavera P6 Enter... Oct. 12, 2009 11:06 AM EDT Reads: 783 |
By PR Newswire  ST. LOUIS, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems, today announced the launch of the first retail solution designed to meet service providers' specific retail needs, and to address the increasing importance of the reta... Sep. 23, 2009 04:01 PM EDT Reads: 537 |
By Krisandra Russo  Zimbra is open source server software for email and collaboration - email, group calendar, contacts, instant messaging, file storage and web document management. The Zimbra email and calendar server is available for Linux, Mac OS X and virtualization platforms. Zimbra syncs to smartpho... Sep. 21, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,464 |
By CMS News Desk  Prolifics, an end-to-end systems integrator specializing in IBM technologies, today announced that it continues to offer companies an easy transition to Lotus Web Content Management (WebCM). In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations must have the ability to effectively ... Sep. 18, 2009 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 829 |
By Rita O'Brien An innovative Internet-based mobile phone services provider, Telmore has been growing rapidly – and so has its online audience. Nearly 50,000 people per day visit the Telmore website, and the company currently has the highest volume of e-commerce transactions in Denmark. Telmore’s con... Sep. 11, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 485 |
By Cloud News Desk  The Cloud storage segment of the Cloud Computing ecosystem can provide a roadmap for how to create a viable, profitable cloud computing industry. That is the contention of the President & CEO of Mezeo Software, Steve Lesem, who will be giving a breakout session at SYS-CON's upcoming 4t... Sep. 10, 2009 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 940 |
By Matthew David  In 2006 Microsoft began releasing a series of designer focused tools. The big question was: Why? Adobe has the best tools, doesn’t it? There is no doubt that Adobe’s tools are very good, what is clear, however, is that Microsoft is taking design seriously for this to be accomplished Mi... Sep. 7, 2009 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,666 |
By Maureen O'Gara  In its second purchase in two days EMC said late Tuesday that it was buying eDiscovery shop Kazeon Systems Inc, whose software is used by corporations, law firms, government agencies and legal service providers.
Terms were not disclosed and are too immaterial to impact EMC’s result... Sep. 2, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 907 |
By Jeremy Geelan  "We've turned our full attention to helping ensure this kind of event doesn't happen again," wrote Ben Treynor, self-described 'VP Engineering and Site Reliability Czar' at Google, in an official blogged explanation last night of the 100-minute Gmail outage yesterday, which Treynor con... Sep. 2, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 865 |
By Xenia von Wedel  Centric, a leading management and technology consulting company, today announced completion of the new web presence for Motorists Insurance Group. Jahia, the premier Open Source web content integration software, has been chosen to power all external knowledge sharing solutions of the r... Aug. 26, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 442 |
By SOA News Desk  Are you a C-level IT executive or IT decision maker? Take this brief eight-question multiple choice survey on IT Outsourcing and you’ll receive a one in 50 chance of winning a new iPhone 3GS! You’ll also be among the first to receive the compelling survey results, offering insight into... Aug. 20, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,330 |
By Sam Gross  Sam Gross is Vice President of Global IT Outsourcing Solutions at Unisys Corporation, where he leads the vision, strategy, technology development and implementation for Unisys innovative global IT outsourcing solutions. He is a recognized industry expert and thought leader in business ... Aug. 18, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 950 |
By Casey Hibbard  Unfortunately, I don't know anyone personally who uses the company's services. And beyond a few vague testimonials, the company doesn't have any stories of other customers' successes. When prospects are looking for evidence from satisfied customers, are you delivering it? Here are 3 wa... Aug. 11, 2009 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 511 |
By John Funnell  ‘Antiquated’ systems means the Government is not delivering Claims the Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health during an exclusive interview for MeettheBoss.com Aug. 10, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 580 |
By John Ryan  Wildfire delivers a social media promotions platform. This is an interview with its CEO Victoria Ransom. We play in 2 categories, we’re in the Social Media Marketing category and we’re also in the promotions space. We've taken promotion formats that have been proven successful and hav... Aug. 10, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 744 |
By John Ryan  Bazaarvoice, the market and technology leader in hosted social commerce applications that drive sales, today announced that it serves more retailers on the 2009 Internet Retailer 500 ranking than any other social media competitor. Bazaarvoice dominates the Top 100, where it beats out i... Aug. 10, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 694 |
By Casey Hibbard  It’s clear that customer case studies and success stories are integral to the sales process. But how many organizations actually use them in every proposal?
How do you bring your customer stories into your sales proposals? Here, Robin Haydon, Australian proposal-writing expert and aut... Aug. 10, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 469 |
By Casey Hibbard  Information in the context of a story is dramatically more compelling than straight facts. Yet, many nonprofits fail to tell stories to illustrate their challenges and successful outcomes. Whether you work for a nonprofit, are an independent writer, or board member or volunteer, here a... Aug. 10, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 798 |
By Ambal Balakrishnan  Bernie Borges' new book: Marketing 2.0: Bridging the Gap between Seller and Buyers through Social Media Marketing. Bernie's book aims to give a macro view of social media marketing with a focus on "what it is" and "how" small and medium size businesses (SMB) can develop a strategy, imp... Jul. 21, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,962 |
By Rebel Brown  Focus groups work great for markets that are trendy - where buyer behavior follows a herd mentality. Which is mostly in the consumer space.
If you want an honest, accurate customer moment - you have to do it 1:1. Mano-a-mano. Jul. 17, 2009 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 567 |
By Ardath Albee  Every single piece of marketing content needs to be designed to achieve a goal. That goal should include delivering on the promise your title or associated messaging sets in the mind of your audience. Otherwise it's just blowing hot air that diminishes prospect interest. Use these tips... Jul. 17, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 869 |
By Rita O'Brien  FatWire Software today announced that FatWire Content Server, the leading web content management (WCM) solution, was selected by the regional government of Alava, Spain to manage its content online and deliver a web experience that will engage and inform its constituents. Jul. 13, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 533 |
By Ardath Albee  There's a lot said about from addresses and subject lines, but don't overlook the preview pane. If the first words your prospects see don't engage them, you just got deleted. Find out what doesn't work and get tips and insights about creating email messaging that gets them at Hello. Jul. 13, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 994 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Coda and Corefino, two accounting ISVs, say they have joined forces to give mid-market CFOs a low-cost alternative to the traditional on-premise software offered by the “Big 3” ERP giants. The new three-part accounting service, called Corefino 2go, combines Coda’s 2go SaaS accounting p... Jun. 26, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,115 |
By OrangeHRM Inc  OrangeHRM, a leading provider of open-source HR Management solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises worldwide, announce the lauch of the new stable version of its product: OrangeHRM 2.4.2. Jun. 18, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,071 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Solid Oak Software claims the Green Dam “censorware” that the Chinese government has ordered pre-installed on every PC sold in China starting July 1 contains programming code and proprietary encryption techniques from its anti-pornography CyberSitter package. In fact, it thinks that Gr... Jun. 16, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,256 |
By Maureen O'Gara  The next sound of wounded market share you hear will be coming from the direction of McAfee and Symantec. Microsoft says it’s testing a free PC anti-virus/spyware program dubbed Morro internally. A beta should be available soon on its web site. The company threatened to do this back in... Jun. 15, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,589 |
By Sastry Taruvai  With over 50,000 pages, Wellesley’s website serves as the primary informational source for prospective students and their families and for students, faculty, staff and alumnae. So, over a year ago, the college’s president and entire senior staff launched a strategic overhaul of their w... Jun. 11, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,213 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Russia must need pin money. According to Reuters, its anti-monopoly police are investigating Microsoft because supplies of XP have dried up and it thinks Microsoft violated its laws by cutting deliveries of the operating system to the country, both the shrink-wrapped kind and bundled i... Jun. 5, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 954 |
By CMS News Desk  Cotendo has announced that its Content Delivery Service is now the CDN of choice for high-traffic Web sites Conduit and Seeking Alpha. Cotendo's emphasis on content delivery applications, whole site delivery, performance and real-time control is ideal for mid-market content providers t... May. 20, 2009 12:01 AM EDT Reads: 602 |
By Wilhelm Stoker  Offering internal, external and special deluxe measures, Hope Tech Global clients can feel secure that their Intellectual Property is safe and protected. Businesses understand the risks involved when dealing with Intellectual Property in China and so does the experienced Western manage... May. 18, 2009 02:20 PM EDT Reads: 534 |
By CMS News Desk  IBM has announced that IBM Records Manager v8.5 received U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.02-STD v3 April 2007 certification. Certification is required for all records management solutions implemented by the DoD, other federal agencies and by many commercial organizations includin... May. 18, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 491 |
By CMS News Desk  Wind River, the global leader in Device Software Optimization, is using Oracle(R) WebCenter Suite, Oracle Universal Content Management, and Oracle E-Business Suite to improve customer service while helping to build valuable long-term relationships with its customers. May. 18, 2009 08:01 AM EDT Reads: 1,092 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Sanford Bernstein ace analyst Toni Sacconaghi suggests that Dell buy Acer, the Taiwan PC company nipping at Dell’s heels and threatening its place as number two in market share in the U.S. The pair was tied in Q1 according to Gartner. He thinks the deal could get done for ~$5.7 billion... May. 9, 2009 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,130 |
By Maureen O'Gara  Microsoft has posted both the public release of the Windows 7 Release Candidate and the beta XP Mode (XPM) add-on, the virtualized rendition of XP that Microsoft made so users of the new operating system can run XP apps, well, so at least the premium SKUs of Win7 can, provided they hav... May. 8, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,961 |