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Evaluating Social Software? Don't Underestimate Open Source
Veröffentlicht 31 Mar 2009 von John EckmanTags: Acquia, Acquisition, Alfresco, Analysis, Application Stategy, Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Content Management, Django, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Groundswell, IT Strategy, Knowledge Management, Open Source, Platform, Portal, social media, Social Networking, Solutions, Strategy, Twitter, Vendor Evaluation, WordPress

It's quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. + Read more

Open source ecommerce - Magento releases 1.0
Veröffentlicht 01 Apr 2008 von Adam MichelsonTags: Ecommerce, Magento, OFBiz, Open Source, PHP, Retail, Vendor Evaluation

  Magento, a new open source ecommerce platform is a promising new entrant that should be evaluated against OFBiz and osCommerce. The Magento project is lead by Verian Technologies, a consulting firm that worked with osCommerce and then decided they could do better by taking their experience and creating a new ecommerce platform.   + Read more

Making RFP's more effective
Veröffentlicht 02 Jan 2008 von Jeff PottsTags: Content Management, RFP, Vendor Evaluation

In the WCM Analyst Panel at Gilbane Boston there was a bit of discussion about how to write RFP’s. The Gilbane analyst gave advice like, “Use open-ended questions rather than yes/no questions” and then went on to complain about vendor (un-)responsiveness to his 150-question RFP’s. I dislike RFP’s. Even if you eliminate from consideration RFP’s that are obviously rigged toward one vendor or RFP’s sent to a vendor for the sole purpose of the vendor serving as column fodder, the vast majority of RFP’s are too often misused. + Read more