JanV wrote:
> So, now I come to my question: are there organisations that see themselves > as independently and assist customers ànd vendors to find the right solution > for a specific business problem? I have no idea if this answers your question, but I figured I would throw it out -- in large part because I've not seen this mentioned, and I was wondering if anyone had availed themselves of this and whether they found it useful. Full disclosure: I worked on this project as a contract coder for Forrester (on the delivery interface, not on the research). Forrester Research is a business research firm and consulting house which has ties to no vendor (CMS or otherwise). One of it's many "products" is a subscription area of its website called "TechRankings", which has a CMS area. TechRankings is a decision-aiding tool. They partnered with Doculabs, which tested and scored each of something like 10 high-end CMS products (e.g. Vignette), on thousands of criteria. The application allows one to weight each of many (hundreds?) of criteria, as to how important that is to your organization, then presents a comparison of the products based on that weighting. The product costs money to use, probably a lot. http://www.forrester.com/TechRankings/CategoryMain/1,5821,40,00.html Also see: http://www.forrester.com/Research/List/Lens/1,3767,348,FF.html (My org has not used this because "high-end enterprise solutions" precisely describes what we, a non-profit, won't ever be using.) -- Vanessa Layne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web Toolsmith TERC * 2069 Massachusetts Ave. * Cambridge, MA * 617 547-0430 -- http://cms-list.org/ more signal, less noise.
