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Ektron + EPiServer Merger – Implications for Customers

EPiServer and Ektron, two content management system (CMS) vendors acquired by Accel-KKR in December 2014, have merged today to form a single company. The combined company “will operate under the EPiServer name and continue to use the Ektron and EPiServer brands”. For Ektron and EPiServer customers this spells a period of uncertainty. Until the two… read more >

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Step-by-step guide to selecting a WCMS

In today’s content-driven online environment, the ability to effectively deliver engaging, accurate, relevant information in the right format at the right time via the right channel is imperative for any successful content strategy. Finding the ‘best-fit’ Web Content Management System (WCMS) to facilitate managing the content on your public, intranet and/or extranet websites is one… read more >

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What to do when your CMS vendor is acquired?

February 4, 2015. Online webinar with Marianne Kay and Mary Laplante. read more >

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DCG Podcasts: Ektron and EPiServer acquisition by Accel-KKR

In December 2014 Ektron and EPiServer were acquired by a private equity firm Accel-KKR. In this podcast Connie Moore and Scott Liewehr discuss what this acquisition means for Ektron and EPiServer customers.

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Want a successful technology selection? Make sure you understand your stakeholders.

Whether the end game is a new web content management system for the entire enterprise, or a marketing automation platform for your sales and marketing team, or a collaboration tool for the PMO, identifying who the project’s stakeholders are, and how they fit into the effort is an important task to complete early on in… read more >

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Analysis of the Ektron announcement

It was an exciting weekend for the folks at Ektron, having received a second round of growth equity funding from their primary backer, private equity firm Accel-KKR. Unfortunately, they learned a hard lesson about public relations in the process. While their announcement said they received a “significant” investment, their inspired base of ex-employees illegally leaked documents… read more >

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What to do when your CMS vendor is acquired?

In the web content management space, acquisitions are a fact of business life. About a third of all leading WCM systems are results of past acquisitions. For example, Adobe acquired content management capabilities through Day Software in 2010. Oracle acquired Fatwire in 2011, as well as Stellent in 2006. OpenText acquired Vignette (2009), and also… read more >

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A discussion on Telerik / Sitefinity acquisition by Progress Software

The acquisition of your chosen CMS vendor by another firm leads to many questions about the future path for the vendor, the CMS product, and the support services. It can also open the door to assessing the technology and considering alternatives. This Q&A session covers recent acquisition of Telerik (Sitefinity) by Progress Software, and looks… read more >

The 2014 North American Edition of the Guide to Service Providers for eb Content and Customer Experience Management

Announcing the new Guide to Service Providers for WCM and CEM 2014 North American edition

Customer Experience Management – It’s a big deal. And it’s important. That’s why we’ve created the Guide to Service Providers for Web Content and Customer Experience Management – the 2014 North American update to research originally published in 2013. Service providers are an integral part of any CEM implementation. So integral, in fact, that without… read more >

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Putting the “Proof” in Proof of Concept

A Proof of Concept (PoC) and “Bake-Off” are not the same thing, although many people treat them as such. To clarify, a “Bake-Off” is a pitting of two or more vendors against each other to compare their products and services, supposedly providing a side-by-side comparison of compatibility and capability with the intent on selecting a… read more >

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