Normally in this space we look back over the current month and forward into the next month, keeping you up to date with the open source CMS and other related projects that might interest you. Like last year, we're taking a look back at 2010 and into 2011 for some extra insights into what's to come, but this time around we used a small survey to see what's in the hearts and minds of open source project leaders.
The Respondents
When we sent out our questions, 23 projects responded. When asked how they would classify their project, we allowed multiple answers since today many of today's players have offerings that span multiple classifications.
The most popular responses were:
•Web CMS / Web Publishing / Web Community - 74%
•Enterprise CMS / Document Management / Info Management - 52%
•Intranet Portal - 44%
•Enterprise Collaboration / Enterprise Social / Innovation Management - 22%
More specialized classifications included Web Engagement / Web Optimization / Sentiment Analysis at 9% and both Digital Asset Management and Enterprise Search tied at 4%.
Even with our broad classifications, 22% answered Other. Explanations include:
•A CMIS-based platform for building Composite Content Applications by configuration
•A web development framework
•A collaborative knowledge platform
•Document scanning and intelligent document capture
•Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
•Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
What They Want For 2011
Another question put to the vendors and projects was, "What are the top 2 things you want to achieve for your project/product in 2011?" Here's what folks had to say:
How Will CMS Evolve?
We didn't just want to hear about the projects, we were curious to see what each group's crystal balls might hint at as far as where the project is going.
So, another of the questions was, "How do you see content / information management evolving in 2011?" Not everyone had an answer, but most gave it a shot, and there were some common threads among the answers:
•Alfresco: We'll see CMS's "supporting a greater diversity of content distribution channels, such as consumer-oriented social networks, as more and more businesses express a desire to gain better visibility and 'control' over their respective brand and messaging."
•Calenco: Better acceptance of information strategy concepts.
•dotCMS: Expect customers to have more development platform and web engagement requirements.
•DotNetNuke: Expect more of a focus on the cloud to allow for easier deployments, better service for mobile users, and more seamless integration of social media applications with the rest of the content.
•Drupal: The importance of mobile content delivery and networked smart devices will continue to grow. They also see cloud service offerings continuing to evolve.
•Ephesoft: Enterprises will find automatic incoming document classification becoming increasingly important. In particular, they think that email classification will start playing a bigger role in decision-making.
•eZ Publish: WCM will become the orchestration tool for an organization's communication channels. The challenge is to publish content from any stakeholder to any channel. "Content is King, APIs are Queen."
•Hippo CMS: Content-oriented and page-oriented systems will separate, and multi-channel engagement and personalization will continue to grow.
•Lucid Imagination: Better integration across vendors will further legitimize open source as a strategic alternative to enterprise content technologies.
•Magnolia CMS: "There are enough hard-core content management problems to solve to not get exited about the latest fuzzy buzzword." Their focus in 2011 "stays where it has been the past 7 years:" on usability, flexibility, and enterprise strength. In particular, they'll be focusing on more integration options and on functional areas around the needs of large corporations. They'll also be bringing more of the authoring process into the product, extending the collaboration theme of Magnolia 4.4 while adding multi-variate testing and analytics integration.
•Melody: Data entry has to get easier, and that tools must adapt to better enable content curators as well as creators.
•Nuxeo: CMIS as both a model and API will lead to the commoditization of content platforms, and that ECM will move to "ECM 2.0" by including more Enterprise 2.0 features.
•Sense/Net: Content-based workflow (or BPM) will grow stronger, and mobile/touch device use will rise significantly, especially "with management."
•SilverStripe: Those who don't focus on CMS and website usability risk falling behind. Other predictions include the growth of social networking and visitor trend reporting features from what started in some ways as vendor marketing messages into real, tangible functionality.
•Tiki Wiki: The whole process will become more collaborative, more social, and integrating more with third parties outside the organization (with all of the complexities that come with such efforts). The Tiki project also thinks that the push toward open source models will continue.
•TYPO3: Different outputs for the front end, spearheaded by HTML5 and mobile interactivity.
•Umbraco: Web CMS will become even more the "water" for web sites, by becoming taken for granted as part of their structure, due to the "the continued focus on professional backings of the products." They also feel that growth will continue in particular for both PHP and .NET-based open source web CMS, and that measuring the value of content and the online environment will grow even more important.
•WeWebU: Backends will become a commodity thanks to CMIS, and that customers will invest more in applications that leverage their data and documents from the backends.
•Wiredcraft: Improvements to both UI and UX, along with the consolidation of some of the current Enterprise offerings.
•WordPress: They already see writers and content producers becoming empowered as platforms like WordPress "remove many of the technical barriers to producing and managing content."
•XOOPS: that focus will turn to what to do with the content. People will ponder how to use their content to interact with and engage users and visitors. Also, they'll work on how to provide new services using their content.
Open Source Business Models
Since this is, after all, the monthly FOSS update, we couldn't help asking, "How do you see open source business models evolving in 2011?"
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