Re: CMS Directories and Comparison Tools

Absolutely agree. I think it raises an issue that is well known to everyone who was involved in choosing a specific CMS for an organization. As far as I remember, The Information Architecture Institute published some time ago a report concerning problems that companies face when implementing a CMS solution. More than 47% of respondents claimed they had difficulties with evaluating vendors.
   
  Alex Masycheff
  Content Management Consultant
  Cogitum LC
  http://www.fototagger.com 

Steve Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
  ...cmsmatrix.org is good...but just be aware that vendors provide their own evaluations as to what their product does...

There are so many abuses in the matrix - which is a shame as it reduces its value...e.g. vendors whose products produce ?123,5,6,7_session=etc URLs ticking the box that says 'friendly URLs' ....guess it depends on your definition of 'friendly'....and that is the difficulty with any such matrix....unless the fields are 'validated' by an independent source you are going to get some vendors who take the view 'tick everything'....

...given that the 'tick boxes' against short descriptions are always going to be relatively vague my advice would be to treat 'yes' answers with a degree of scepticism.....ironically only when the vendor says 'no' to an option can you really be sure that it means no........its a good starting point maybe for an evaluation....but every 'yes' should be queried and checked for its 'trueness'
Regards
Steve 
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From: [email protected] on behalf of Massytchev Alexander
Sent: Thu 24/08/2006 16:23
To: Scott Abel
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CMS] CMS Directories and Comparison Tools

Hi Scott,

The first site I am starting thinking about is CMSMatrix, http://www.cmsmatrix.org/

My 2 cents.

Alex Masycheff
Content Management Consultant
[email protected] 

Scott Abel wrote:

I'm doing some research and wondered if some members of the list might 
help me.

I'm trying to locate websites that offer CMS comparison tools and 
directories of CMS vendors and their products. I'm looking for great 
web sites that offer useful information -- and those that are not so 
great and not so useful.

Any links and comments are most welcome. Thanks in advance for your 
help.

Scott Abel, Content Management Strategist, The Content Wrangler, Inc.
abelsp-Da48MpWaEp0eIZ0/[email protected] * 941-359-3416 * skype: abelsp

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