039;s Content Management Weblog. 5 Disruptive Technologies To Watch In 2008. It's time for our annual list of hot technologies poised to rise high on industry radar screens in the coming year. Our picks include server-based virtualization, enterprise video, and presence-aware apps. A new year always brings changes and new challenges for IT managers, and 2008 will be no exception. While there are dozens of emerging technologies that have the potential to disrupt current standards, five that have significant opportunity to lead to major implications for enterprises in the coming year are: virtualization, the role of Apple and managing cross-platform shops, managed data centers, video over IP networks, and presence-aware applications.
What all five have in common is the ability to change the course of your IT plans, rework your network infrastructure, manage your desktops, and alter the way you build and deploy your applications. Virtualization Now 1 of 4 More Insights. What's Trendy in Content Management for 2008? Wondering what trends to expect for content management this year? Well wonder no more. InformationWeek's George Dearing has provided us with his Top 5 Trends for 2008. We also found a few more that tickled our fancy. So let's start with Dearing's Top 5: 2008 | The Year They (Business Users) Make Contact - Business users will start to demand better interfaces and back-end workflow. So it all sounds good right? The evolution of SharePoint as a serious player in the ECM infrastructure marketplace. Oh I bet if you asked every content management vendor out there and every consulting company that provides CMS services, you'd get a million more trends to watch for.
Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008. The coming year is going to be a pivotal one for anyone involved in software-as-a-service. For everyone else, it's going to be the year when SaaS becomes impossible to ignore. Here's why. It's all about services. I'll start my list by repeating the prediction I made at the beginning of last year: "SaaS is just part of a wider move towards Internet-based automated services. " Next: Software vendors stampede into SaaS Software vendors stampede into SaaS. . #1 - The incredible value of SaaS is realized and buyers want in #2 - The buyers realize they need enterprise SOA to effectively pull off SaaS #3 - #100 are irrelevant. Economic factors favor SaaS. That's my take, anyhow — with thanks to the bloggers and analysts I've referenced along the way. Can Social Media Save Red Herring?
Red Herring, the tech industry's essential source for Silicon Valley venture capital news and buzz during the go-go ‘90s but since fallen on hard times, has just rolled out a new beta online platform that it hopes will reduce computing costs and attract new readers and advertisers through the addition of a number of social community-building features and a new video channel. “Developing and maintaining a web site like Red Herring can be very expensive,” says webmaster Chris Heimbuck. “Typically, you need a team of developers to build it and then you are pretty much dependent on the team to keep things up and running smoothly. That adds up.” In addition to cutting costs, editor Scott Morrison wanted to add community-building functionality that would allow readers to engage RH and its writers and editors directly and to add content.
“The Blogtronix crew did a lot of custom work for us,” Heimbuck says. “They really went that extra mile. Link to original post. EMC to be the SouthWest of Content Services? EMC will soon release one of the first embeddable enterprise CMS platforms that is able to support all content application types. In an industry where the big brands already own the majority of the ECM market, this may not be life-changing, but as basic content services (BCS) commoditize, it could prove critical to the company's success.
By offering an embedded repository EMC may be able to expand its reach and maintain some form of cachet among industry giants like Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle — who are already staking claims in the unstructured content services space. Earlier this week CMS Watch's Alan Pelz-Sharpe weighed in with his take on the OEM approach, casting his doubts on EMC's ability to execute a move like this, given their history of big deal making and relative lack of experience in the OEM space. Whether the company can yank and tug themselves into this new shape does remain to be seen.
The desire to shift strategy in this space cannot be faulted though. Open Text Cozying Up to Microsoft and Oracle.