At 11:01 2/12/2002, Carol Avis wrote:
A few resources for basic information are in Research Oranisation
publications. These reports are costly, but the web sites which home
the reports are downloadable are an excellent resource for establishing crieria
by which you might evaluate your own product. These resources are more for
yourself -- you'd need to "translate" them for your sales & marketing team so
they understand and market the same product you have built.
1. Ovum's reports at: http://www.ovum.com/go/product/flyer/WC2.htm
2. Forrester Research at:
http://www.forrester.com/Research/Coverage/0,5907,137,00.html
3. Cutter Consortium Reports: www.cutter.com
4. Seybold Reports has a report focussing on Online/Internet publishing:
http://www.seyboldreports.com/TSR/index.html
5. Our own favourite CMSWatch Content Mgt Report has fair introduction to the
concept: http://www.cmswatch.com/TheCMSReport/
6.Then there are the presentations on the business case of a CMS, such as
CAtherine Schneider's of Anderson's Consulting (2001) at:
http://seminars.seyboldreports.com/seminars/2001_san_francisco/presentations/086
/schneider_catherine.ppt
7. Finally, the vendors themselves offer great introductions to the concepts
behind the products they're trying to sell. The core vendors can be found
listed in the Research report samples
8. In addition, you may find some of the resources which target themselves more
generically to "finding a way through the CMS jungle". The following table is
rich with information -- but the best column is the "supported features" column,
which can be a great guide for defining what features your own CMS supports:
http://www.networkcomputing.com/ibg/Chart?guide_id&84
Can my own (fairly extensive) list of CMS articles to this list. Hopefully they provide a pretty good starting point for CMS selectors and implementers: http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/index.php?subject=cm
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