{"id":904,"date":"2009-08-07T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2009-08-07T07:00:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T15:00:36","slug":"wcm-forrester-wave-for-web-content-management-wcm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wcm-forrester-wave-for-web-content-management-wcm\/","title":{"rendered":"WCM:  Forrester Wave for Web Content Management (WCM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Forrester Wave results for Web Content Management are out and SDL Tridion has come out on top. The report is titled &#8220;The Forrester Wave\u2122: Web Content Management For External Sites, Q2 2009&#8221;. The rankings in the report across all vendors are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leaders:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SDL Tridion, Interwoven, And FatWire<br \/>\n<strong>Strong Performers:<\/strong> Vignette, Open Text, Day Software, Oracle, And Microsoft<br \/>\n<strong>Contenders:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IBM And EMC<\/p>\n<p>Vendors are rated on the Features and Architecture of their current offering, the company long-term strategy, and their Market presence.<\/p>\n<p>The report also identifies the business drivers for WCM as seen by businesses.\u00a0 The percentages of businesses as citing the driveers for increased deployment or usage of Web content management include:<\/p>\n<p>63%\u00a0 Improved Web site customer experiences<br \/>\n37%\u00a0 Web operations cost reduction<br \/>\n25%\u00a0 New eBusiness initiatives<br \/>\n25%\u00a0 Improved employee communication<\/p>\n<p>The Forrester report finds that many of the vendors have adopted Web 2.0 technologies to reduce the amount of clicking and screen refreshes needed to use the software.\u00a0 Those types of interfaces are typically more intuitive and require less training to use. 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