Experience Management

Gene Phifer spoke about the trends in what Gartner calls the User Experience Platform (UXP).  The big change from last year appears to be a split in the emerging UXP market into Suite vendors and Lean vendors. Gartner sees many vendors, such as IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle expanding more and more into the Suite side […]

Today I attended a Webinar given by Adobe showing a sneak peek at CQ5.5.  Almost a year ago I blogged about how Adobe CQ5 had arrived.  Adobe CQ5.5 will include significant improvements especially for digital marketers. Adobe plans to announce CQ5.5 in March,  2012 and there will be lots more new features than what I […]

We’ve seen a lot of interest in Adobe CQ5 lately. One question that comes up a lot is about CQ5’s portal capabilities.  Michael Porter blogged last year about the trend of Web Content Management systems to become more portal-like (see Web Content Management’s Trend Towards Portals). It is true that overall CQ5 has lots of traditional […]

On October 28, 2011, Gartner updated their Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals. While not much has changed from 2010 in the leader’s quadrant, there are a few new names on the chart in the other quadrants.  In the pictures here you can see the 2010 version compared to 2011. Microsoft, IBM and Oracle continue to […]

Forrester has just released The Forrester Wave for Mobile Collaboration, which does a very good job of highlighting who the leaders are in this market.  The image below shows the Forrester Wave; you can access the full report at forrester.com. What is interesting is that the report includes only those companies that have native applications […]

If you are like me, you know that html5 and CSS3 has some really nice functionality that can help make a slick interface.  If you are also like me, you only have a small idea of what that really means.  Adobe has a great site that walks you through many of the capabilities brought to […]

You want to build a an application once and deploy it to lots of different devices without much rework.  That’s an age-old problem that we once thought would go away with modern web browsers.  But now we have a new take on this issue:  Web vs Native applications on mobile devices. Well, two products are […]

Adobe CQ5 has been getting a lot of great reviews by many analysts.  In the latest Forrester publication, CQ5 jumped into the leader wave.  I recently had a chance to look into the mobile support provided by CQ5 and I must say, Adobe has a compelling story for users and developers. In the following video, […]

Many of you have experienced the wonder of the written word.  You ask a question, the client says something which no one understands, you write it down and everyone agrees to it.  Several months later, you deliver something and it was not what they wanted.  Agile methodologies like SCRUM can get you part way there […]

Forrester recently release their Web Content Management Wave.  It’s striking less for the rankings and more for the information about trends and why they ranked the vendors the way they did.  I won’t reveal the Wave itself since I don’t have rights to distribute but I will note a few key findings. Welcome to CXM […]

eWeek has a short article out about the Adobe’s updated Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 aimed at mobile development.   Adobe continues to follow their model for using Flash as a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP).  While still relatively young, small vendors like Pyxis and even larger vendors like IBM are pushing a strategy of […]

For the entire history of the portal, when someone asked, “When should I use a portal instead of a content management system?”, the answer was easy.  When you have to login, surface applications, personalize the experience, and otherwise do more than simple content display, then use a portal.  However, that’s been changing of late.  This […]