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The Web CMS Report 2008 looks at... Professional Services and Support

"CMS software vendors will exhibit less flexibility about pricing for their professional services. This is partly because vendors incur real incremental labor costs here, and partly because they have become addicted to the predictable profit margins from their services work amid an otherwise fairly competitive market for their software..."

(p. 587)

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Web Content Management Trends

Cold Banana? - 05-Aug-2008

Join us in Copenhagen and London for search, IA and more.... - 04-Aug-2008

Apache in the Outer Hebrides - 31-Jul-2008

Three years later, Day CQ 5 is still almost ready - 31-Jul-2008

Stop the Presses: the Word is out - 30-Jul-2008

Introducing our new Online Education series - 29-Jul-2008

Interwoven prospers as Vignette continues to bleed - 25-Jul-2008

No easy upgrade for Sitecore customers - 24-Jul-2008

A new (and wearable) Content Technologies Subway Map - 23-Jul-2008

Web UI development: inherently slow? - 22-Jul-2008

Start flossing your content now - 22-Jul-2008

We're looking to hire a Web Content Management Technology Analyst - 14-Jul-2008

Narrowcasting to your feed aggregator - 11-Jul-2008

Interwoven and the Gartner WCM MarketScope - 11-Jul-2008

SaaS Web CMS vendor Marqui going belly up? - 11-Jul-2008

Bam, WAM, thank you, DAM! - 09-Jul-2008

Adobe's brave new stack - 08-Jul-2008

White paper on SharePoint for public websites - 02-Jul-2008

Oracle's new plan to save you money - 23-Jun-2008

A Tale of Two Days at Web Content 2008 - 23-Jun-2008

Web CMS Thoughts from Gilbane Day One - 19-Jun-2008

Web CMS versus Social Software? - 18-Jun-2008

Drupal, Mollom, and the Future of Blog Spam - 11-Jun-2008

Hope to see you at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference... - 05-Jun-2008

North Plains and Interwoven offer DAM SaaS service -- or do they? - 04-Jun-2008

Oracle erases criticism from their wiki - 02-Jun-2008

CMS Watch Competition Winner - 02-Jun-2008

Sitecore's new UI: We've seen this before... - 29-May-2008

Mediasurface acquired by Alterian - 18-May-2008

Adobe woos Sun recruits to the Flex cause - 18-May-2008

Vendor criticism of CMS Watch - 16-May-2008

A caution about Drupal as a social software platform - 13-May-2008

Now more than ever, reading is not believing - 13-May-2008

Reinventing the Java application server - 06-May-2008

Mediasurface for sale? - 06-May-2008

Budget time: How much should I set aside for software licenses? - 03-May-2008

Content Management - UK vs. US - 02-May-2008

Mortgage crisis: The least of Vignette's worries - 30-Apr-2008

What WCM can learn from DAM - 26-Apr-2008

SharePoint, accessibility, and web standards - 23-Apr-2008

A Greener CMS? - 22-Apr-2008

On RedDot and Balance - 21-Apr-2008

How do you like THOSE assets? - 11-Apr-2008

Special challenges of managing school websites - 07-Apr-2008

Readers' challenge - name our new chart! - 06-Apr-2008

Clickability as Open Source? - 31-Mar-2008

Dropping coverage of Synkron Via - 14-Mar-2008

Serena Collage to go off into the sunset - 12-Mar-2008

The Web CMS Scene in Europe - 11-Mar-2008

To boldly go where they have gone before - 07-Mar-2008

Do you have an awesome Intranet? - 06-Mar-2008

36 Hours at AIIM: Google, SharePoint, Customers - 05-Mar-2008

Content Technologies Subway Map - 05-Mar-2008

Releasing latest edition of The Web CMS Report - 04-Mar-2008

Have a seat on the couch... - 03-Mar-2008

Join CIOs next Thursday at the AIIM Expo - 29-Feb-2008

Sun to pursue Java-less Java? - 29-Feb-2008

Google Sites hardly a SharePoint killer -- but that's not the point - 28-Feb-2008

When Microsoft and partners don't push MOSS 2007 for web content management - 27-Feb-2008

Standards: Are you ready for HTML 5? - 25-Feb-2008

More on SharePoint licensing costs - 24-Feb-2008

Big software discounts ahead? - 21-Feb-2008

Benchmarking Java application servers - 21-Feb-2008

Microsoft's new game plan: Target the dorm room - 19-Feb-2008

jboye08 in Denmark: Call for Speakers issued - 19-Feb-2008

Content: what's it worth to you? - 17-Feb-2008

Day Communique 5.0: Missing in Action? - 15-Feb-2008

Building blocks of project success - 13-Feb-2008

Open source should mean open discussions about open roadmaps - 11-Feb-2008

The Stackless Stack - 07-Feb-2008

Documentum Fixes Security Flaw - 06-Feb-2008

CrownPeak's New SaaS Option - 05-Feb-2008

The future of Plone -- not in web publishing? - 04-Feb-2008

The Stability of Clickability - 04-Feb-2008

Independence and Industry Analysts - 01-Feb-2008

More pain in the SaaS - 30-Jan-2008

The world is your oyster, but is the Geo-web right for you? - 30-Jan-2008

Vignette announces numbers, resignations - 25-Jan-2008

Cache as Cache Can - 24-Jan-2008

Location matters: URLs should be short, meaningful and permanent - 23-Jan-2008

CMS Watch is hiring - 22-Jan-2008

What's up with Vignette's financial performance? - 21-Jan-2008

Welcome, Barbara... - 20-Jan-2008

What InfoWorld didn't tell you about Tridion - 09-Jan-2008

Joomla!, open source, and security - 03-Jan-2008

FatWire buys Australian reseller - 30-Dec-2007

2008: Are you ready for new browsers? - 21-Dec-2007

BEA, the Patent Office, and the Future of JCR - 21-Dec-2007

Analyzing the analysts - 21-Dec-2007

Should you care about Vignette's three new patents? - 19-Dec-2007

What we didn't predict for next year - 18-Dec-2007

Microsoft Sued Over (Lack of) Standards Compliance - 14-Dec-2007

High-Touch Content Management - 13-Dec-2007

The Joy of Buy-Side Conferences - 12-Dec-2007

A holiday wishlist - 11-Dec-2007

Google Sites: Unlikely to bite other Web CMS vendors - 06-Dec-2007

At last: Details out on MOSS 2007 SP1 - 05-Dec-2007

FatWire: No spoking, please.... - 05-Dec-2007

VC funding for Drupal? - 30-Nov-2007

All universities are equal... - 30-Nov-2007

Lyris HQ links ClickTracks, CMS, and E-mail marketing - 28-Nov-2007

Zealotry of the Apostate? - 28-Nov-2007

Grateful for content technologies - 22-Nov-2007

FatWire XSS vulnerability, and the perils of Web 2.0 - 20-Nov-2007

Real training for WCM in MOSS 2007 - 19-Nov-2007

Placed and placeless content in Vignette - 16-Nov-2007

Norwegian Web CMS vendor Escenic is acquired by local Norwegian company - 15-Nov-2007

New York in December: Christmas Trees, Ice Skating, Polar Bears, and IOA! - 14-Nov-2007

SharePoint as a .NET development platform - 13-Nov-2007

Survey on university CMS adoption - 07-Nov-2007

Keeping it simple - 07-Nov-2007

FatWire buys local wiki vendor - 01-Nov-2007

Whither IBM and Web Content Management? - 30-Oct-2007

The case against Sitecore - 29-Oct-2007

VisualSciences' Search and Publish: What about us? - 26-Oct-2007

Plone: What's in a name... - 26-Oct-2007

WCM, Marketplaces, and Maturity - 25-Oct-2007

See you at the CM Pros Summit - 24-Oct-2007

Mashing up Web Analytics and Web Content Management - 23-Oct-2007

Interwoven does A/B/C/D testing - 22-Oct-2007

Obtree obscured - 18-Oct-2007

SEO and CMS revisited - 18-Oct-2007

WCM in Italy...and Europe - 12-Oct-2007

Day and FileNet, reunited...under IBM - 02-Oct-2007

Web CMS Report - 2008 - 02-Oct-2007

R and R - 01-Oct-2007

EPiServer 5 is now ready - 24-Sep-2007

Dilbert on IOA - 19-Sep-2007

The next dot-release, coming out in...? - 14-Sep-2007

The difference between software and consultingware - 10-Sep-2007

The challenge of multi-site web content management - 06-Sep-2007

Hope to see you in Denmark - 30-Aug-2007

Still waiting for Vista-IE7 support - 28-Aug-2007

EPiServer founder sells out to investors with global ambitions - 27-Aug-2007

A thousand and one thank yous - 26-Aug-2007

Scalability the Terracotta Way - 14-Aug-2007

Just what is IOA? - 10-Aug-2007

Announcing a New Training Program - 09-Aug-2007

Welcome Kas Thomas - 04-Aug-2007

Talk to Microsoft - 03-Aug-2007

London Calling - 27-Jul-2007

Day Software goes from DAM-lite to DAM-heavy - 18-Jul-2007

Magnolia's new enterprise edition is more of a departmental tool - 14-Jul-2007

Whole Lotta Shaking Going On at Visual Sciences - 13-Jul-2007

Don't DAM the little guys - 04-Jul-2007

The challenge of change - 29-Jun-2007

Mediasurface and The Three Bears - 26-Jun-2007

Feeding you properly - 21-Jun-2007

Joomla! CMS faces a governance challenge - 20-Jun-2007

CM Pros Fall 2007 Summit - 14-Jun-2007

The WCM Renaissance - 14-Jun-2007

Web CMS Deployment Patterns - 12-Jun-2007

Synkron becomes Dynamicweb and changes senior management...again - 03-Jun-2007

Questioning Sitecore's support model - 01-Jun-2007

Vendor demos revisited - 25-May-2007

Stump a consultant - win an iPod - 23-May-2007

Percussion splits off Lotus business - 16-May-2007

CMS Watch site redesign - 15-May-2007

Joomla! and Mambo are finally different - 14-May-2007

The case against TypoScript - 10-May-2007

Web CMS usability fundamentals - 07-May-2007

Welcome Jarrod Gingras - 07-May-2007

Updates to the SAP NetWeaver Portal roadmap - 04-May-2007

Pump your website? - 03-May-2007

Your iPod, or your business? Taxonomies in-depth... - 26-Apr-2007

RedDot's Purple Monkey and the ECM/WCM divide - 26-Apr-2007

SharePoint and your public website - 25-Apr-2007

SDL acquires Tridion - 24-Apr-2007

Are you ready for Vista? - 21-Apr-2007

Seeking Web Content Management Analyst - 20-Apr-2007

Four words to drop from your RFP -- and one to add - 16-Apr-2007

Evaluating Web Analytics Vendors - 15-Apr-2007

The Coming Configurator Conundrum - 11-Apr-2007

Proud of your Intranet? - 05-Apr-2007

Drupal isn't Web-2.0-in-a-box - 03-Apr-2007

CMS vendor Synkron is bought by local competitor - 29-Mar-2007

Rethinking RedDot's usability - 28-Mar-2007

Why do IAs hate their Web CMS tools? - 26-Mar-2007

What business leaders should ask from distributed web teams - 24-Mar-2007

Rethinking PaperThin's value - 21-Mar-2007

Announcing latest version of The Web CMS Report - 20-Mar-2007

Developing a practical intranet development methodology - 15-Mar-2007

How a CMS can help your web analytics - 01-Mar-2007

Casting call for Web CMS screencasts - 28-Feb-2007

Take a web operations survey - 24-Feb-2007

Vendor briefings, take two - 23-Feb-2007

Roadmap magic: protecting yourself from the analyst influence game - 22-Feb-2007

Speaker call for cmf2007 in Denmark - 22-Feb-2007

Taxonomies, folksonomies, and my love/hate relationship with my iPod - 21-Feb-2007

CMS Watch is hiring - 20-Feb-2007

Software development practices matter - 08-Feb-2007

Why your CMS is slow - 27-Jan-2007

I want my CMS TV? - 25-Jan-2007

Day Software edges closer to Wall Street - 24-Jan-2007

Of RIAs and dancing hamsters - 22-Jan-2007

IBM catching up with outside world - 22-Jan-2007

Upgrade to Documentum 6...in 2008 - 12-Jan-2007

Major consolidation of UK gov't websites - 11-Jan-2007

Lead our industry - 10-Jan-2007

New subscription package for CMS Watch reports - 04-Jan-2007

New Year's resolutions for technology buyers - 03-Jan-2007

New Year's resolution for vendors - 02-Jan-2007

The RFP process meets Led Zeppelin - 28-Dec-2006

People create taxonomies - 22-Dec-2006

Top 10 CMS selection mistakes - 15-Dec-2006

Early adopters of SharePoint 2007 WCM in the UK - 13-Dec-2006

CMS vendor Immediacy announces document management system - 12-Dec-2006

It's mostly about you: the lure of customer conferences - 11-Dec-2006

Learning about web app usability - 05-Dec-2006

Myths about open source software - 01-Dec-2006

Web CMS industry: still young - 28-Nov-2006

Portals vs. CMS: A Podcast - 21-Nov-2006

Which comes first: WCM or web analytics? - 16-Nov-2006

Of CMS interfaces and architectures - 10-Nov-2006

Oracle to buy Stellent - 03-Nov-2006

A checklist for your rich text editor - 31-Oct-2006

Podcast on selecting a Web CMS - 30-Oct-2006

Publishing collections in MOSS 2007 Web Content Management - 30-Oct-2006

The 6 Million Dollar WYSIWYG Editor - 28-Oct-2006

Vendor pricing continues to evolve - 27-Oct-2006

Join us in Denmark this November - 16-Oct-2006

Synkron releases major update to Via CMS product - 12-Oct-2006

Open Text clarifies plans for RedDot CMS - 11-Oct-2006

Which comes first: new design or new CMS? - 02-Oct-2006

Alfresco releases WCM module - 29-Sep-2006

Vignette eats its own portal food - 25-Sep-2006

IBM upgrades Workplace WCM - 24-Sep-2006

Happy Hour, 28 September, Washington - 22-Sep-2006

FrontPage is dead. Long live FrontPage! - 18-Sep-2006

Is German CoreMedia still a CMS company? - 15-Sep-2006

EMC-Documentum announces Page Builder module - 14-Sep-2006

We release version 10 of The CMS Report - 12-Sep-2006

GIGO, FUBAR, sissies, and saddles on cows - 08-Sep-2006

Content Management heads to college - 02-Sep-2006

Day Software: Is it just me, or... - 01-Sep-2006

Where does your CMS end and your Portal begin? - 28-Aug-2006

J.L. Halsey acquires Hot Banana - 24-Aug-2006

Putting SEO and content technology in perspective - 21-Aug-2006

CM Pros Autumn Summit to tackle globalization - 06-Aug-2006

Hummingbird ekes 10 more cents out of Open Text - 04-Aug-2006

Small step forward for single-source publishing - 04-Aug-2006

Plone Solutions co-founder takes new job at Google -- updated - 03-Aug-2006

What is a CMS? - 29-Jul-2006

Vignette.com: Still V6 after all these years - 28-Jul-2006

Plone 2.5: Catching up with Zope - 26-Jul-2006

Now offering indvidual product evaluations - 19-Jul-2006

Open Text, Hummingbird, and industry consolidation: bad for the customer? - 07-Jul-2006

Percussion announces enterprise-ready Rhythmyx 6 - 07-Jul-2006

Does your vendor have a developer zone? - 03-Jul-2006

Midgard keeps chugging along - 21-Jun-2006

Explaining RSS to President Bush - 20-Jun-2006

Hosted CMS, Search Expanding in Europe - 09-Jun-2006

Search Analytics -- Conversations with the authors - 09-Jun-2006

Seeking multinationals to participate in intranet survey - 06-Jun-2006

Is managing content in public agencies really much different? - 06-Jun-2006

Tridion opens U.S. office - 05-Jun-2006

Theresa Regli joins CMS Watch - 05-Jun-2006

Let Google convert your Word docs - 02-Jun-2006

When the Web becomes just a web - 31-May-2006

Hummingbird's private exit - 29-May-2006

Ingeniux releases CMS version 5.0 - 25-May-2006

Synkron Via 1.0 is out - 24-May-2006

Honeycombs are better than quadrants - 23-May-2006

Gilbane-DC keynotes: turn-about is fair play - 22-May-2006

Stellent offers website management - 19-May-2006

Requirements workshop in NYC - 12-May-2006

Last day for early-bird discount to Gilbane DC conference - 12-May-2006

One CMS, or two? - 08-May-2006

Stellent, Fast, and the decoupling of Search and ECM - 05-May-2006

Registration open for Washington CM conference - 20-Apr-2006

Ektron and the return of site management - 18-Apr-2006

Next release of Sitecore to be based on delayed Office 2007 - 18-Apr-2006

Open Source CMS Typo3 launches V4 with new look - 12-Apr-2006

Ajax and accessibility - 07-Apr-2006

Expensive waiting game for Microsoft customers - 31-Mar-2006

Google emptied my CMS - 30-Mar-2006

Portals and CMS: What's the difference? - 25-Mar-2006

Could Amazon, Google, or Yahoo! become your CMS vendor? - 23-Mar-2006

Putting WYSIWYG to the test - 22-Mar-2006

Portals and CMS software alive and well at CEBIT. - 10-Mar-2006

Salesforce.com to enter the content management space? - 09-Mar-2006

Future of Plone - 21-Feb-2006

Stellent announces Blog, Wiki, RSS modules - 15-Feb-2006

Alfresco to add WCM to ECM - 13-Feb-2006

Your CMS license won't be as cheap as you think - 10-Feb-2006

RedDot and Synkron begin move to .NET - 04-Feb-2006

CMS Watch releases CMS Report, V9 - 02-Feb-2006

Google studies HTML in the wild - 31-Jan-2006

FatWire Still Likes Its Original Product - 30-Jan-2006

Stellent gets certified for SAP Portal - 28-Jan-2006

Who wants to be a CMS vendor CEO? - 26-Jan-2006

What information resources come with your open-source CMS? - 23-Jan-2006

Where are the high-end .NET CM/DM packages? - 22-Jan-2006

Zopening Up - 17-Jan-2006

Where to find the IBM Workplace WCM community - 11-Jan-2006

Migrating from Vignette - 05-Jan-2006

More on the future of Microsoft CMS - 03-Jan-2006

Miro transfer Mambo rights for $1 - 23-Dec-2005

CMS Idol re-runs available - 20-Dec-2005

Typo3 magazine hits the stands in Germany - 16-Dec-2005

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