) November 20, 2008 -- E-discovery strategies are critical for enterprises in a world of rising litigation, bankruptcies, mergers and acquisitions, and increased regulation, argues CMS Watch, an independent analyst firm that has just released a unique, half-day online course, "The Fundamentals of E-Discovery."

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For those enterprises that do not have a proactive e-discovery strategy in place, getting hit with a lawsuit or regulatory action means a costly search for information needles in very large haystacks.

) October 7, 2008 - Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technology buyers are under pressure to cut costs and justify expenses at a time when small and mid-market vendors are now providing less expensive alternatives to larger ECM vendors.

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) June 15, 2009 -- Current demands to reduce headcount and push more information to distributors and customers are driving the resurgence in enterprise portal technology, according to CMS Watch, a vendor-independent analyst firm. CMS Watch's newest portals research finds considerable attention going to self-service portals in government, retail, and healthcare, which carry complex integration requirements.

Today CMS Watch released its latest Enterprise Portals research, which evaluates 12 enterprise portal vendors and products head-to-head.

"As more services move online, enterprises are searching for frameworks to manage complex, user-centric application environments," notes Jarrod Gingras, CMS Watch Analyst.

) December 16, 2008 -- 2009 will bring significant changes to content technology marketplaces, according to research released by independent technology evaluation company, CMS Watch (www.cmswatch.com). CMS Watch reports and online education prepare technology buyers for successful implementations.

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"Obviously the economic slump will continue to influence buyers and vendors," observed CMS Watch founder Tony Byrne, "but other technology developments - including the rise of mobile analytics and a new version of MS SharePoint - will also significantly affect enterprise calculations."

) December 18, 2008 -- Project managers, creative directors, enterprise architects, and consultants struggle to determine the optimal way to implement Digital Asset Management (DAM) technology, according to CMS Watch, an independent analyst firm. Important information must be understood prior to implementation in order to mitigate risk, including: key administrative and system management services, roles and groups and how security is managed, scalability, capacity and bandwidth challenges, the value of specific DAM standards.

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) October 30, 2008 -- CMS Watch, an independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies, has developed a series of online courses to help business and technology managers become more informed customers and decision-makers.

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Much of that expertise lies with vendors or integrators who have a vested interest in a particular solution

) September 17, 2008 -- Despite predictions of Microsoft dominance, mid-market Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendors have become stronger and more diverse going into 2009, according to research from CMS Watch, an independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies.

"ECM mid-market technology buyers have almost an embarrassment of choices now," notes Alan Pelz-Sharpe, lead analyst for the report. "The market is rife with products, while prices are trending downward - both good news for customers," adds Pelz-Sharpe.

) November 14, 2008 -- SharePoint 2007 customers are increasingly turning to Microsoft partners to provide capabilities where the platform either lacks or underperforms, according to research undertaken by CMS Watch, a vendor-independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies.

"After initially marketing SharePoint as a virtually omnipotent platform, Redmond is now emphasizing partner-oriented solutions," notes CMS Watch founder Tony Byrne. "On the whole, that's a good thing, but customers need to prepare themselves to deal with multiple vendors and solutions as part of their SharePoint architecture."

) August 17, 2009 -- After years of virtually ignoring handheld devices, Enterprise Content Management vendors are starting to focus on mobile computing needs, according to new research released today by independent analyst firm, CMS Watch.

"Information within ECM systems typically remains highly secured, but outside the application environment it becomes uncontrolled and unsecured," noted CMS Watch Principal Analyst, Alan-Pelz-Sharpe. "The move by ECM vendors to develop and support applications for remote and offline environments is an important step toward dealing with that challenge."

) November 25, 2008 -- Enterprise search technology is no longer such a secret, according to new research from CMS Watch, an independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies. The componentized nature of modern search offerings, combined with the availability of improved administrative tools and APIs, has had the effect of demystifying what was once a rather obscure technology.

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) January 5, 2009 -- The Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Media Asset Management (MAM) marketplace has split into a low end and high end, with mid-market solutions lacking, according to recent research conducted by CMS Watch, a vendor-independent analyst firm. Small team/workgroup-style DAM tools can be purchased for US $2,000-5,000, while the enterprise-class DAM & MAM tools are rarely purchasable for less than US $150,000-$200,000.

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There's really not much left in between

) October 9, 2008 -- Many Web Content Management Systems (CMS) vendors have spent the last year trying to differentiate on SharePoint integration, but the results have been mixed, according to new research from CMS Watch, an independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies.

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) March 3, 2009 -- CMS Watch, an independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies, released its updated "Content Technologies Vendor Map" today. Patterned after a subway map, the free, downloadable PDF shows how 100 major vendor "stations" sit astride eight different technology "lines."

) October 20, 2009 -- Enterprise-tier content management vendors continue to struggle in a Web Content Management marketplace characterized by a profusion of smaller players, according to research released today by independent research and evaluation firm, CMS Watch.

These conclusions stem from the most recent release of The Web CMS Report 2010, in which CMS Watch interviewed Web Content Management customers and integrators around the globe to evaluate forty-one Web Content Management solutions. The report can be purchased online from CMS Watch (http://www.cmswatch.com).

) August 5, 2009 - Enterprise social software technology buyers presently face reduced risks amid a marketplace characterized by increased stability, according to the latest Enterprise Social Software & Collaboration Cross-Checktm, released today by independent analyst firm, CMS Watch. The CMS Watch Cross-Check compares vendors' pace of evolution as well their speed of product development.

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) April 1, 2009 -- The "E20" group of major ECM vendors will conclude their summit meeting at the AIIM Expo today with a communiqué urging enterprises to permanently suspend efforts to manage content, according to independent industry analyst firm CMS Watch.

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) February 17, 2009 -- Although Google Analytics has captured an unprecedented customer base among SMB website owners, Yahoo!'s emerging Web Analytics service surpasses Google in several key categories relevant to enterprises, according to new research by independent analyst firm, CMS Watch.

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) June 1, 2009 -- Digital Asset Management (DAM) technology buyers can expect a wealth of updated offerings during the second half of 2009, as a majority of DAM suppliers are poised to debut major releases after nearly a year of low activity. This research stems from today's release of The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2009, which evaluates 20 DAM suppliers head-to-head. CMS Watch Principal DAM Analyst, Theresa Regli, and Founder, Tony Byrne will discuss and critique the DAM market's major offerings at the Henry Stewart DAM Symposium in New York City, June 1st & 2nd.

) March 25, 2009 -- In a shift away from recommending 3rd-party website search solutions, Web Content Management (CMS) vendors are increasingly offering site search services, with nearly 40% of major Web CMS vendors now embedding the open source Lucene engine, according to research released today by independent analyst and evaluation firm, CMS Watch.

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) March 18, 2009 -- Growing enterprise demand to measure mobile-based web traffic and video usage has spawned a promising new set of tools and methods which nonetheless remain fairly immature, according to new research by independent analyst firm, CMS Watch.

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) January 16, 2009 -- While early 2008 found enterprises buzzing about Facebook and some firms even adopted it as their Intranet platform, 2009 is seeing LinkedIn moving more rapidly to address enterprise social computing needs, according to new research by independent analyst firm, CMS Watch.

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) July 16, 2009 -- CMS Watch, in partnership with Step Two Designs, today released “Fundamentals of a Successful Intranet,” the first online course to lay out best practices for intranet teams. Designed for both existing intranet managers and those planning a new enterprise intranet, the course outlines the business case for improvement, and then identifies key factors in delivering a successful intranet.

Almost every organization has an intranet, providing access to key corporate knowledge, a channel for communication to all staff, and a gateway to enterprise systems. While many intranets are more than a decade old, they still struggle to realize their potential business value.

) February 24, 2009 -- Enterprises striving to align their business and technology efforts for improved Enterprise Content Management (ECM) can now assess their existing readiness and guide their ECM roadmap going forward, using the ECM Maturity Model ("ECM3"). The model was jointly developed by leading consulting firms Wipro Technologies, Hartman Communicatie, and Smigiel Consulting Group, along with independent analyst company CMS Watch, and released under creative commons today.

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) March 11, 2009 -- US federal managers trying to heed President Barack Obama's call for more transparent and participatory websites face separate marketplaces for the supporting technologies -- Web Content Management ("CMS") and Social Software -- complicating efforts to align efficient web publishing and citizen interaction, according to research released today by independent analyst and evaluation firm, CMS Watch.

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) April 8, 2009 -- Component Content Management (CCM) technology, (which allows enterprises to manage text content as componentized chunks of information rather than documents or web pages), has till recently been the domain of a wide collection of small niched software vendors, now ECM vendors along with large digital publishing companies are starting to take control of the space, potentially bringing XML to the masses.

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) February 26, 2009 -- Enterprise search vendors have spent much of the past year digesting acquisitions and stabilizing their offerings, according to new research from CMS Watch, an independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies. While in the past, search and information access technology buyers faced vendors and technology both undergoing rapid change, the choices are now more stable.

2009 Cross-Check

) April 20, 2009 -- Consonus Technologies today introduced Secure Archiving for the Enterprise (SAFE™), a complete and cost-effective email archiving managed service solution which leverages Symantec Enterprise Vault™ content archiving software in a hosted offering. Consonus SAFE™ builds on the Company's comprehensive portfolio of data center services, including disaster recovery and virtual business continuity solutions.

EASY Software Will Feature Award-Winning Compliant Archive Solutions for
A/P Workflow, DMS, ERP and E-mail

) May 13, 2009 -- MessageSolution, Inc., the global technology leader in email and file archiving solutions for electronic discovery, litigation support, compliance, and storage management, today announces the release of MessageSolution Email & File Archive Enterprise Suite with SharePoint Archiving at Microsoft TechEd North America in Los Angeles. MessageSolution Email & File Archive Enterprise Suite with SharePoint Archiving is a centrally-managed archiving software solution that allows organizations to consolidate storage resources by storing e-mail, file, and Microsoft SharePoint Server archives on a single server.

Indusa Technical Corp. has come up with a comprehensive database archiving and purging solution for companies who boast of ever-increasing data and helps ward off data retention and storage problems.

As retention of data is proving a headache to many organizations, analysts implore to use archiving software for databases to save on storage costs and to defer infrastructure requirements.

New in-the-cloud email archiving and discovery service, MessageBunker, providing ultra-secure archiving that is simpler and cheaper to deploy than existing alternatives.

) May 19, 2009 -- MessageSolution announced today that Network Products Guide,the industry's leading publication on information technologies and solutions has named MessageSolution Email & File Archive Enterprise Suite a winner of the 2009 Best Products and Services Award. This respected annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly changing needs and interests of the end-users of technology worldwide. As part of the tech-industry's leading global awards program, this year's Best Products and Services were nominated from all over the world.

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New Entrant BackMii Launches an Online Backup Service that is Over 100 Times Safer than Most Other Providers. Users Can Also Keep Their Data Safe Forever with Optional Online Archiving. The Combination of Safety and Archiving Enables Businesses and Consumers to Safeguard Themselves Against Future Legal Claims and Meet Compliance Requirements.

German IT trade journal, c’t magazine, publishes the archiving guidelines in its June 2009 Issue.

) October 22, 2008 -- DiskInternals announces the update of Mail Recovery, its flagship product to recover and repair deleted and corrupted email databases by various mail clients. The new release supports Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Thunderbird, and TheBat, and recovers messages, attachments, contacts, tasks, calendars, and address books.

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) February 10, 2009 -- MXSave, a leading provider of e-mail disaster recovery solutions, has announced the immediate availability of its backup mx and e-mail continuity services worldwide. MXSave provides inexpensive e-mail disaster recovery solutions to aide organizations when their e-mail server is down because of hardware failure, connectivity issues or natural disasters.

With the availability of the service internationally, MXSave has also added support for many foreign character sets that are necessary to read e-mail from around the world through its web mail client - which is part of its e-mail continuity add-on service.

) April 30, 2009 -- eFolder, Inc., a leader in providing branded online backup and local backup solutions, announced today a new email archiving and mailbox storage management service for Microsoft Exchange email servers. This new service allows eFolder's Partners to compete in the billion dollar email archiving industry by combining eFolder's award-winning backup technology with the ability to seamlessly store all archived email offsite in a secure location, as well as to actively manage mailbox storage requirements through message deduplication and automatic removal of content into secondary storage.

Oracle Corp’s takeover of Sun Microsystems and its database archiving storage solution spells drastic changes in the IT world.

It has been stated in various research reports that the database archiving market is going to shoot up due to huge influx of enterprise data in recent years.