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Evaluate

Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.

• Nintex launches no-code workflow automation tool

  Nintex has launched a no-code workflow automation tool, Workflow Generator, in an effort to bridge the gap between IT departments and process experts. Continue Reading

• Cohesion is latest Acquia acquisition

  While Acquia would not provide specifics of the deal, the decision behind the acquisition of Cohesion was the chance to bring more value to customers, according to Acquia's CTO. Continue Reading

• How can businesses use shoppable content?

  Shoppable content can be found within a number of digital experiences, including blogs, photos, videos, photo captions and social media. Here's what you need to know. Continue Reading

• How do headless e-commerce platforms work?

  A headless e-commerce platform is a cloud-based service that can connect e-commerce activities and functions to mobile apps and third-party applications. Here's how it works. Continue Reading

• 5 reasons why content marketing fails

  Content marketing strategies can fail for a variety of reasons, such as refusing to learn more about your customers. Here are five ways content marketing strategies can fail. Continue Reading

• 3 ways snackable content creates relevant digital experiences

  Businesses can deliver snackable content through contextual commerce, content as a service and digital twinning to create innovative digital experiences.Continue Reading

• Using AI in content creation can streamline publishing

  Companies using AI in content creation can generate short-form material automatically, which frees up humans to handle more complicated tasks. But there can be drawbacks.Continue Reading

• Get to know data governance tools for the enterprise

  Data governance tools can address documentation gaps, data visibility and metadata management. Here are some tools that can help you along your journey.Continue Reading

• The role of blockchain in information governance

  While blockchain got its start as the foundation for different cryptocurrencies, it can also be beneficial in content management. Here's how it works.Continue Reading

• How can RPA improve content management?

  Many vendors use RPA to complete various content management tasks including Grammarly, BuzzBuilder Pro and Mailchimp. Learn how you can use RPA to enhance your automated processes.Continue Reading

• Content collaboration tools sharpen focus on customer demands

  Content collaboration software is necessary to create and share content among business users in and out of the office. Here are some tools that help make that possible.Continue Reading

• NLG tools powered by AI energize, customize, optimize content

  Though in its early stages, natural language generation automates content collaboration platforms to streamline employee communications and personalize customer engagement.Continue Reading

• How does Microsoft Power Platform stack up against SharePoint?

  Power Platform capabilities compete with SharePoint and, in some cases, replaces it completely. Suite components include PowerApps, Power BI and Microsoft Flow.Continue Reading

• Digital transformation technologies power CX makeovers

  Businesses use many tools to effect digital transformation. Learn how organizations use these tools to improve CX and digital experience, while getting a leg up on the competition.Continue Reading

• Fluid Framework opens the door to new Microsoft capabilities

  Fluid Framework provides multiuser co-authoring capabilities -- offering never-seen-before flexibility. It also has the potential for adoption by outside vendors.Continue Reading

• What are the pros and cons of open source e-commerce platforms?

  Open source e-commerce platforms are popular for businesses looking to build an online store. They offer cost savings and flexibility, but consider the support and security risks.Continue Reading

• E-commerce content management systems power personalization

  Today's customers expect an engaging, personalized experience, even when shopping online. Learn how an e-commerce-ready CMS can point enterprises in the right direction.Continue Reading

• E-commerce information systems, content management join forces

  Content management to power e-commerce systems takes on greater importance in personalizing customer engagement by aligning processes, data and tools in unified platforms.Continue Reading

• What are some applications of AI in content management?

  Content management systems in the healthcare and legal industries use AI to automate tasks, saving businesses the time and money spent on employees to do the same work.Continue Reading

• 4 Office 365 collaboration tools that mirror SharePoint

  In order to convince users to move away from SharePoint, Microsoft has built Office 365 collaboration tools that improve upon the legacy platform's core capabilities.Continue Reading

• 9 killer use cases for CMS blockchain

  Uses for blockchain technology in content management and social media exist largely in the realm of the theoretical. But there's a lot of potential for authenticating content.Continue Reading

• How to select the best ECM platform for your company

  Discover the benefits, drawbacks and primary features of enterprise content management tools to help make a final buying decision.Continue Reading

• How Mediavine succeeded with cloud digital asset management

  Mediavine, an ad management company, has cut web hosting costs by using a SaaS content management platform to store, edit, and manipulate images and video.Continue Reading

• ECM features of the future get an AI boost

  AI can help to retrieve and organize content, so it makes sense for ECM platforms to have AI capabilities. Take a look at how AI can enhance ECM.Continue Reading

• How to make an inevitable SharePoint 2010 migration painless

  Don't get caught off guard by Microsoft's eventual retirement of its SharePoint 2010 CMS. Prepare for the inevitable with these tips on the migration process.Continue Reading

• Personalization technology can both help, hurt CX strategy

  Technology makes it easier for organizations to personalize content for online prospects. But brands need to make sure they don't get too personal and push away potential buyers.Continue Reading

• Why the future of SharePoint could be dismal

  Microsoft SharePoint dominated the industry back in its prime. Cloud file-sharing competitors, however, may force some difficult SharePoint rip-and-replace decisions.Continue Reading

• 5 crucial WCM capabilities you can't live without

  Web content management systems should be able to do more than create and publish web content. Use this checklist to ensure that your WCM system can keep up with today's content needs.Continue Reading

• Open source search engines attract developers

  The enterprise search market is evolving and offering new options, such as open source and AI. Discover the benefits of these platforms and how companies are using them.Continue Reading

• Successful chatbot content strategies rely on tools, AI

  Chatbots aren't a panacea curing customer support issues. Organizations must hone their content quality, organization and management to create successful bots.Continue Reading

• How can data governance strategies keep up with O365 updates?

  As Microsoft expands its Office 365 services, data governance strategies for SharePoint admins become more complicated. Discover how SharePoint admins can avoid these issues.Continue Reading

• Be aware of new OneDrive and SharePoint security features

  SharePoint and OneDrive shops can implement recent security features to improve the content sharing process. Discover what's new from Microsoft and how these features can help.Continue Reading

• 2019 trends in content management: Personalization, AI

  AI, personalization, open services platforms and vendor wars, content management software industry observers say, will be the top trends in 2019.Continue Reading

• Which is the best ECM application for your business?

  Examine the top commercial and open source ECM software to help you determine which product is best for your organization.Continue Reading

• SharePoint features elevate Microsoft DMS in market

  With new SharePoint features, Microsoft sets its sights on the document management space, which it has historically left to other vendors.Continue Reading

• Cloud collaboration benefits the future of work

  The future of work relies on cloud collaboration abilities to keep employees and content connected, both inside and outside brick-and-mortar buildings.Continue Reading

• 5 benefits of PowerApps forms for SharePoint

  Microsoft PowerApps has been around since 2015, but it is just now beginning to beat out its predecessor, InfoPath -- originally a straight PDF competitor -- in functionality.Continue Reading

• Where's the beef? Wendy's chooses an open source WCMS

  Imagine winnowing down a software platform from 25 vendors -- what Wendy's did when choosing its WCMS. The burger firm made the complex task simpler with a scorecard ranking system.Continue Reading

• Five ways ECM software can benefit your organization

  Think your business needs content management tools? Here are five use cases illustrating how ECM software addresses common compliance and management challenges that companies face.Continue Reading

• SharePoint Online web parts modernize corporate intranet

  Microsoft unveils new features that will allow users to access Office 365, social media, news feeds and PowerApps all within one SharePoint intranet site.Continue Reading

• 5 new features for SharePoint modern pages

  SharePoint modern sites, a set of upgrades for SharePoint Online, give administrators the ability to customize sites without third-party applications.Continue Reading

• HubSpot CMS targets WordPress users with stand-alone product

  With the growing importance of customer experience personalization, HubSpot is offering its CMS as a stand-alone product to help customers' web businesses.Continue Reading

• Content management tools address digital content challenges

  With the digital content explosion and increasing mandates come the need to manage all those files. ECM tools do just that and more, ever evolving to meet changing business needs.Continue Reading

• AI-assisted image and video search is next content frontier

  You can search text, but it's harder to catalog images and video. New tools are automating those processes at the enterprise level.Continue Reading

• Office 365 SharePoint Online features raise CIO concerns

  Most of Office 365's products can help solve specific challenges facing CIOs, but they also seem to compete directly with some of SharePoint's own capabilities.Continue Reading

• Nuxeo among new wave of content services platform vendors

  An Indigenous-led organization is preserving British Columbia's native languages with the help of a newer type of content management platform that's designed to handle multiple content formats.Continue Reading

• SharePoint hub sites raises migration questions among users

  In the newest rev of SharePoint Online, what used to be sub-sites are now new freestanding sites. This change and others may create migration migraines.Continue Reading

• Cloud DAM platforms vs. on premises for digital asset management

  Learn about digital asset management and how cloud DAM democratizes media management and delivery across the enterprise while reducing operations costs and increasing productivity.Continue Reading

• ECM gets a show of support from Zendesk Guide Enterprise

  Guide Enterprise captures insights and curates knowledge bases for customer service representatives and customers while helping large support teams streamline content production.Continue Reading

• Workplace collaboration tool bolsters employee productivity

  The benefits of workplace collaboration tools trickle down to employee relationships, company growth, community engagement and training. Use this tip to choose the right tool.Continue Reading

• New age collaboration tools empower the future of ECM

  Document management, file-sharing and ECM platforms might represent 'ancient' 1990s technology, but AI and collaboration tools are breathing new life into old systems.Continue Reading

• Adding artificial intelligence bots to Cortana for Office 365

  AI bots aren't just for requesting songs and definitions anymore. As enterprises look for ways to bring virtual assistants into the workspace, Microsoft's Cortana stands ready.Continue Reading

• Content, data services enable digital workplace transformation

  There's a lot of tech behind digital workplace transformations: middleware, application modernization, content and data services. Done right, it enables work-from-anywhere models.Continue Reading

• ECM, digital document management help energy company surge

  Sterling Energy can now expand its gas and water distribution services with a digital document management system that gives them real-time insight into business transactions.Continue Reading

• E-signature software market caters to contract-heavy industries

  How do electronic signature tools from DocuSign, eSignLive, Adobe Sign, SignNow and SignEasy stack up? A G2 Crowd expert helps us sort through the field.Continue Reading

• How long does Office 365 deployment take?

  If you're wondering how long an Office 365 deployment takes, expert Shawn Shell has the answer for you.Continue Reading

• Content management in the cloud a main theme in 2018

  The future of content management resides in the cloud and with AI, as several 2018 conferences will assure you.Continue Reading

• What's the difference between ECM vs. WCM in the cloud era?

  Does the difference between ECM vs. WCM leave you scratching your head? Read on to finally understand what exactly each system does and how it can benefit you.Continue Reading

• Using Microsoft MyAnalytics to improve workers' time management

  Microsoft MyAnalytics has been hailed as the next great thing for analyzing worker productivity. But how can employees be assured that the data won't be used against them?Continue Reading

• Examining the pros and cons of Microsoft Power BI tools

  Power BI is a suite of business intelligence tools that targets user-friendly analysis and reporting. But what are users getting for their money, and how is it potentially useful?Continue Reading

• How does SharePoint 2016 differ from SharePoint 2013?

  SharePoint 2016 will bring new features on premises, but many upgrades focus on easier integration with cloud-based Office 365 services.Continue Reading

• Effective WCM systems work behind the scenes

  Effective Web content management systems work behind the scenes to organize and present information based on audiences' actual needs.Continue Reading

• Weighing the pros and cons of SharePoint BPM

  When looking at the pros and cons of SharePoint BPM, consider the tradeoff between Office integration and the versatility of broader BPM tools.Continue Reading

• How to build visual workflows in SharePoint

  Editing workflows in SharePoint has become more intuitive, with Visio integration that makes it easier to alter the structure of business processes.Continue Reading

• SharePoint workflow management: The little engine that could?

  SharePoint BPM may be overshadowed by other BPM platforms, but its workflow management can bring efficiencies at a lower cost than its rivals.Continue Reading

• Comparing social media monitoring tools

  SDL is a popular choice among social media monitoring tools, but how do its competitors stack up?Continue Reading

• A guide to SharePoint migration

  SharePoint migration is no easy task. Prepare for a successful upgrade with this guide, which also includes SPTechCon 2014 coverage.Continue Reading

• BPM projects must come from top down, says Oracle Collaborate speaker

  While trends such as mobility have changed BPM from the bottom up, BPM projects should come from the top down, said an Oracle Collaborate speaker.Continue Reading

• Getting the most out of business collaboration software: Rules to live by

  Companies that have made the leap and use collaboration software offer up some rules to live by in creating effective communities.Continue Reading

• Is the future of ECM software in the cloud?

  Traditional enterprise content management has been woefully inadequate for user needs in the era of cloud and mobile. Can the market turn things around?Continue Reading

• Enterprise collaboration tool evangelist brings ROI to business suite

  Dawn Lacallade is an enterprise collaboration tool evangelist. And she knows the secret sauce for successful social networking initiatives.Continue Reading

• SharePoint 2013 out-of-the-box features

  Let's give thanks for some of SharePoint 2013's out-of-the-box features, some of which have made serious strides since the previous release.Continue Reading

• How to configure SharePoint for mobile devices

  As more organizations support bring-your-own-device initiatives, end users increasingly expect access to SharePoint resources from mobile devices.Continue Reading

• Quiz: Corporate records management practices for the compliance-minded

  Corporate records management practices keep compliance officers at the forefront, so we've created the quiz to test your records management awareness.Continue Reading

• Top free SharePoint utilities and tools for enterprises

  Are you on a tight budget? Download these handy tools and utilities for free to fill in SharePoint functionality gaps.Continue Reading