For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals (Length: 17 pages)

July 16, 2007

The Forrester Wave™: Web Content Management For External Sites, Q3 2007

SDL Tridion Leads While Microsoft And IBM Play Catchup

by Kyle McNabb, Stephen Powers

with Matthew Brown, Erica Driver, Shelby Semmes, Diana Levitt

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Forrester evaluated 11 leading Web content management (WCM) vendors across 190 external site content management and delivery criteria and found that European vendor SDL Tridion has established clear leadership in enabling organizations to manage and deliver persuasive content customer experiences. SDL Tridion excels in personalization and multisite and multilanguage functionality. FatWire — with its high-scoring multisite management and J2EE support — and Interwoven — supported by its superior multistaging combined with taxonomy management and automated classification — also rank as leaders in the evaluation. Strong Performers include Oracle Universal Content Management, which Oracle obtained via the Stellent acquisition, with its solid metadata and workflow capabilities; Percussion's Rhythmyx with new personalization and delivery capabilities; RedDot, now a part of Open Text, with its focus on usability; and Vignette with comprehensive functionality in both content management and delivery. Contenders include Day Software's Communiqué — with its multisite and channel management support — and EMC — with comprehensive content life-cycle management support — and both distance themselves from IBM and Microsoft, two vendors focused on good WCM support but less on persuasive content initiatives.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemCustomer Experience Needs Make WCM Essential To Online Operations

itemEvaluation Overview: WCM Must Do More Than Publish Content To Web Sites

itemThe Results: European Vendor Leads Charge Into Persuasive Content

itemVendor Profiles

itemSupplemental Material

Forrester conducted product evaluations in January and February 2007, and interviewed 11 software vendors: Day Software, EMC, FatWire, IBM, Interwoven, Microsoft, Percussion, RedDot, Oracle, SDL Tridion, and Vignette.

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Analyst: Kyle McNabb, Stephen Powers
Technology: Enterprise Content Management, Information & Knowledge Management, Web Content Management
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America


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