The Definitive Guide to Today’s Content Management Systems and Vendors

The Definitive Guide to Today’s Content Management Systems and Vendors

Includes:
• Content Management Systems: The New Math for Selecting Your Platform industry survey
• One-hour consultation with a Basex analyst

The content management market is seeing the most dramatic change in the past decade thanks to new open source and commercial open source entries that are making significant inroads with customers.

The Definitive Guide to Today’s Content Management Systems and Vendors is a new 150-page report series from Basex that examines current offerings in the content management market and provides exhaustive analysis of key vendors in this space to guide decision makers in the selection process, including market trends, drivers, and barriers.

The report series looks at 32 key content management vendors and 43 platforms. It includes over 40 charts, tables, and figures and 16 in-depth Vendor Profiles.

Basex estimates that the U.S. market for content management was $4.1 billion in 2008 and will reach $10 billion by 2014. Open source content management is gaining traction in some circles and the overall open source software market is growing rapidly in terms of public- and private-sector adoption. Companies will find a wide range of content management systems at varying price points but selecting the RIGHT platform is more critical than ever to a company's future.

The report series is being published on a subscription basis and includes an in-depth industry survey, Content Management Systems: The New Math for Selecting Your Platform, and 16 in-depth Vendor Profiles of key content management providers and their offerings.

The report series examines major changes in the content management market including vendor consolidation and the rise of open source software. It also covers the challenges and issues companies face when selecting a new system, including:
• How are smaller organizations benefitting from content management?
• How does an organization choose the right content management platform given the increased choices available?
• What is CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Standard) and how can it benefit organizations with multi-vendor, multi-repository environments?
• Has the advent of open source software changed the process of selecting a content management solution?
• What exactly is commercial open source and how might it benefit an organization?
• Do open source solutions produce real cost savings?
• What is vendor lock-in and what can one do about it?
• How can one customize a content management platform to meet the needs of the organization\

The report critically examines the growing open source and commercial open source market and focuses in on fundamental questions organizations must take into account:
• Total Cost of Ownership. Hidden costs such as extra staffing, integration with existing systems, support from third party vendors, and down the road developmental costs for expanding and customizing the software
• Support. Companies can develop technical skills to support their system in-house and customize it to their needs. Popular open source products also have large networks of users who continuously contribute to product development via enhancements and fixes.
• Quality and Functionality. Open source software offerings may be powerful and full featured but lack the ease of use of a fully developed commercial product or suffer from quality issues from a lack of testing and documentation.