The stratospheric rise in the proportion of revenues from professional services was an insider secret among enterprise CM vendors over the past 18 months.

What do portal and enterprise CM vendors Open Text, FileNet, Hummingbird, Quark, iPlanet, SAP Portal, and IBM have in common?

Connecting content management services to other e-business applications is difficult -- and tricky.

According to industry research firm Evans Data, Web developers think that decreasing site development and maintenance time will be their biggest challenge in the next 1 to 2 years.

You can take or leave the missives of usability guru Jakob Nielsen (we sometimes do the latter).

As noted in our recent article, CM vendors are hastily adding Asset Management (DAM) features for enterprise clients with media-rich sites (and whose isn't these days?)

The Perl scripting language has fantastic text-manipulation tools, broad support, and now an object-based orientation, so the apparent dearth of Perl-based CM packages has sometimes become a source of jokes in the community.

You hear the advice everywhere (including on some of the pages of this site).

Database and application server vendor Oracle has bundled various elements of its disparate product line into a CM offering after watching substantial value accrue to point solutions from other software companies (that often use an Oracle database as the underlying content engine).

We continue to argue that the Digital Rights Management (DRM) industry remains in its infancy.

CMSWatch has been chronicalling the convergence of Enterprise Portals and Web Content Management Systems.

0% financing terms being offered by automakers in the USA have spurred record vehicle sales in the last month. Now Starbase Corp., vendor of the eXpressroom CM package, is offering 0% financing over 12-24 month periods for software licenses totalling more than $50,000.

Smart software vendors are joining forces with integrators to create hands-on laboratories for prospect and customer demos and R&D.

It seems everyone wants to be standards-compliant, but in the Web CM space, what does that really mean?

Sometimes, destruction can be creative.