CMS & PORTAL AWARDS 2010!
The CMS & Portal Awards® Benchmark Team has for the sixth consecutive time since August 2000 carried out a comprehensive Benchmark analysis of the leading Content Management Systems (CMS) and Portal products in a global market.
The BNP CMS and Portal Benchmark Analysis is unique and among the most detailed analyses of this specific market.
BNP have selected a number of leading international CMS and Portal vendors to participate in the analysis. In the period of April 2009 – April 2010 the vendors have provided a large amount of information about their services and products.
Each vendor has specifically answered a RFI (Request for Information) containing 20 pages of questions from the CMS & Portal Awards® Benchmark Team. This way BNP have gained a very good insight into the strengths and weaknesses of each product and vendor. A consequent methodology behind the analysis has furthermore made the answers directly comparative which enables BNP to identify which specific systems that represents Best Practice within various criteria.
More than 28.000 pages of answers to the questions in the RFI including documentation have now been analysed by the CMS & Portal Awards® Benchmark Team.
Again this year the CMS & Portal Awards® Benchmark Team has identified vendors displaying exceptional functionality and thereby representing Best Practice within 15 important categories. the CMS & Portal Awards® Benchmark Team has named a leader and a challenger in each category. The award winners was revealed Q1Q2
Get the complete list of participants in the latest CMS and Portal Benchmark analysis.
The total of 25 participants can be categorised into the following groups:
70% (17) Closed source international vendors
30% (8) Open Source systems.
Check out the main criteria behind the Benchmark analysis.
The Global CMS/Portal vendors Nominees 2009/10
Again this year the selection of the nominees is tough! The CMS and portal systems just get better and better and even the smaller CMS and portal vendors are gaining momentum.
BNP Consulting® and CMS & Portal Benchmark® Partners have been talking to a lot of customers and users in Europe and the USA and have listened to their experiences with the CMS/portals, vendors and solution providers. (In fact CMS & Portal Benchmark® Partners have corrected the benchmark to reflect the customers desires and needs).
At this moment the the Award Jury has nominated about 25 Global CMS /portals to participate in the main CMS & Portal Benchmark®.
The Local CMS/Portal vendors Nominees 2009/10
The CMS & Portal Benchmark® Team have in the past year seen a lot of local CMS and portal vendors that have the potential to break through on a broader market. These systems have the best potential to become global actors in the CMS and portal market.
The selection of the local CMS and portal nominees is even tougher than the global CMS and portal nominees! The local CMS and portal systems are gaining momentum!
At this moment the Award Jury and the CMS & Portal Benchmark® Team have nominated about 15 local CMS /portals on different markets to participate in the Benchmark.
"But we are the best - Our CMS/Portal/Social Software rules!"
As the previous years the CMS & Portal Benchmark® Team will have a lot of talented CMS and portal vendors that feel they have been unrighteous treated, but the CMS & Portal Benchmark® Team try to be as objective as possible in both nominating and judging the CMS and portal systems.
First of all The CMS & Portal Benchmark® Team have selected the members of the Award Jury to make sure that they have practical experience within Content Management and Portal project management, development and editorial use of CMS's and portals.
The CMS & Portal Benchmark® Team tries to judge the systems on the basis of the replies to the Request for Information (RFI) of the CMS and Portal Benchmark® to make sure that all perspectives of the CMS/portal are covered.
The CMS & Portal Benchmark® Team make sure that the vendors have every opportunity to deliver additional material that is not already covered by the RFI.
The CMS & Portal Benchmark® Team let the vendors present the rationale behind their decisions and the functionality in order to obtain the best possible basis for the nominations.
