Diverse£¬ Negotiable Choices for UK Content Technology Buyers

¡¡¡¡LONDON and BOSTON, April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- UK content technology buyers enjoy increasingly diverse choices when considering enterprise content management, search, portal and web analytics technologies, according to CMS Watch, a buyer-oriented analyst firm that evaluates content technologies.

    These findings come in conjunction with Internet World UK, to be held at Earls Court London 29 April -- 1 May, where CMS Watch Principals Alan Pelz-Sharpe and Theresa Regli will speak in several sessions.

    "The UK has long been the ''first stop'' for technology vendors who are looking to expand beyond their own borders," points out Alan Pelz-Sharpe, lead analyst for the ECM Suites Report 2008. "But this is playing out with more intensity in the past year, especially as the UK and Europe currently enjoy stronger economic conditions than the U.S."

    Mainland European open source projects such as OpenCms and TYPO3, along with commercial vendors like Day, Sitecore and SDL Tridion, provide competition for locally-bred Alfresco and Mediasurface, while French-based companies such as ECM vendor Nuxeo and search vendor Exalead have gained more customers north of the channel. This trend avails UK buyers not only a wealth of options, but also puts them in a position to demand strong local support teams from their vendor.

    CMS Watch also finds: -- In some areas such as enterprise search and e-mail management, UK technology buyers often focus on a different set of business challenges than their North American peers. While in North America legal search and e-discovery are hot-button issues, this tends to fall flat in the UK, as e-mail monitoring -- such as the offerings by Symantec or UK-based vendor Autonomy -- is more prevalent -- The spread of interactive content services for mobile technology also drives more aggressive adoption of multi-channel publishing technologies in the UK and mainland Europe -- UK government spending on content technologies at all levels has also helped buoy a diverse local supplier base

    Theresa Regli, who will present UK-specific research from The Enterprise Search Report 2008 at Internet World, concludes, "Competition is fierce, and customers are in a position to bargain for both products and services."

    About CMS Watch

    CMS Watch(TM) evaluates content-oriented technologies, offering head-to-head comparative reviews of leading solutions. Through highly detailed technical evaluations, CMS Watch helps sort out the complex landscape of potential solutions so that buyers can minimize the time and effort to identify technologies suited to their particular requirements. To retain its independence as a totally impartial analyst firm, CMS Watch works solely for solutions buyers and never for vendors.

    CONTACT: Kristie Hughes, Marketing Director, CMS Watch Tel: +1-202-966-6999; E-Mail: khughes@cmswatch.com

    Web site: http://www.cmswatch.com

    Source: CMS Watch
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