We also have a dedicated/specialist Information Management bookstore here
 

WELCOME to the IDMi Bookshop

No coffee, no cakes, just books, magazines and offers

All too often we forget books are not just for enjoyment, but also to allow us to learn new things. Indeed that is one of the reasons we produce the magazine, to keep you informed and allow you to learn from a single point of contact.

Many of the bookshop items we are will feature here are made available by our affiliation with Amazon, one of the largest bookselling organisations in the world. Other items we may offer from time to time will come from a variety of other vendors.

The items we focus on are complementary to information management or running a business.

If you have a publication of DVD you think would be of interest to our readership and site visitors, please contact us so we might include them for you.

For more information contact bookshop@idmionline.com.

Web CMS Report 2008

Now available to all IDMi readers 080608

Traditional Web CMS vendors are increasingly touting their "Web 2.0"-style interaction services, but enterprises looking to roll out comprehensive social computing services will likely need to bring other tools into the mix, according to research released today at the Gilbane Conference by CMS Watch, a vendor-independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies.

"The good news is, nearly all Web CMS vendors are 'socializing' the experience around enterprise websites and intranets by adding various engagement features such as blogs, tag clouds, forums, and more to their products," said CMS Watch founder, Tony Byrne. "Where they tend to come up short is when you want to extend into broader forms of Social Networking and Collaboration." For that, you’ll likely need additional technologies purpose-built for those services, argued Byrne.

In the recent release of The Web CMS Report 2008, CMS Watch interviewed customers around the globe to evaluate forty different solutions.

CMS Watch found:

- Profiles and Collaboration are emerging as key Social Software services at a time when most Web CMS products focus on information-oriented Publishing and Discussion facilities.

- Web CMS vendors can relatively easily replicate blog functionality, but many customers still prefer the simplicity of standalone blog tools and services, and not all Web CMS vendors can deal effectively with comment/trackback spam on public-facing blogs.

- Similarly, most Web CMS tools possess sufficient editorial and versioning facilities to enable wiki services. Yet, standalone wiki tools typically perform better at creating new pages, re-organizing and refactoring discussions, and outputting compound wiki entries into printable documents.

"Web CMS technology continues to play a very important role in enterprise communications, since you still need a platform to produce and manage authoritative content," notes CMS Watch analyst, Jarrod Gingras. "So you shouldn't postpone dealing with a serious content management problem on the false hope that there is a 'Web 2.0' panacea out there to fix it."

"The Web CMS Report 2008" provides a comprehensive overview of current web content management products and best practices, including updated evaluations of forty Web CMS vendors across two editions (Global and European).

The report is available for purchase online from IDMi. Prices from $975. Info here.

SharePoint Report

Now available to all IDMi readers 080608

Evaluate Microsoft's newest server technology as an enterprise platform. Learn from the experts exactly what SharePoint is, what it can do, and how it can work for you and your organisation.

More information here.