Re: Mid-Market Content Management

At 06:15 AM 11/08/2005, Matthew Clapp wrote:

>I've spent most of my consulting life working with top tier ECM 
>players and now have a client in the mid-market ($25 - $125K range) 
>and I'm not sure where to begin. I've asked my boss to spring for 
>Byrne's CMS Report which seems to be the best resource available on 
>the mid-market.
>
>Ifyou have experience in this space, I would love to hear from you. 
>Specifically, I'm wondering who the top 5 vendors are? I see Ektron 
>and RedDot seem to be be ranked pretty high. Anyone have a top 5 
>they'd like to share?

Matthew,

I'm a bit surprised, it's an odd question for a CM Pros
member to be asking!

In Australia, there are over 100 products in the marketplace,
almost all of which you might define as "mid-market":

http://www.steptwo.com.au/cm/vendors/australian/index.html

Here, at least, it's an incredibly even playing field with
no dominant players. There is great demand for CMS products,
so every vendor is making sales at present.

The whole concept of "top vendors" is wrong. As you, of all
people, would know, it comes down to how well a product
matches the *specific business requirements* of each client:

http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/cmb_requirements/index.html

Cheers,
James

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James Robertson
Step Two Designs Pty Ltd
Knowledge Management / Content Management / Intranets

http://www.steptwo.com.au/
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