Content Marketing is Mission Critical

AContent Marketing – specifically, publishing content to be used by the consumer or business buyer to research a purchase - is more influential in the purchase decision than advertisements or in-store experiences.

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By Jim Howard, | July 2, 2013

Note to the IT Buyer

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By Jim Howard, | March 13, 2013

Two Scenarios Where Crownpeak's SaaS Approach Really Matters to the Marketer

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By Jim Howard, | March 1, 2013

Looking Forward to JUMP this Wednesday!

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By Jim Howard, | January 28, 2013

TechCrunch: 2013 Enterprise Guide for Dummies

I recently read an excellent article titled “The 2013 Enterprise Guide for Dummies” by Alex Williams on TechCrunch. The article triggered a few thoughts on SaaS and the enterprise.

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By Jim Howard, | January 10, 2013

Content Marketing a Big Topic at Jump Conference, NYC

I recently read an excellent article titled “The 2013 Enterprise Guide for Dummies” by Alex Williams on TechCrunch. The article triggered a few thoughts on SaaS and the enterprise.

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By Jim Howard, | October 29, 2012

The Fake SaaS and Why It Is Bad for the Customer

Ask yourself this question: Has any meaningful SaaS company used a commercial or open-source product as the basis for their service? Salesforce.com? Concur? 37 Signals? ExactTarget? RightNow? Responsys? Demandware? Workday? Success Factors? Taleo? ADP? Crownpeak? Of course not!

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By Jim Howard, | September 24, 2012

Disruptive Technologies

There was a great profile on Clayton Christensen in the New Yorker recently. I had read his groundbreaking book Innovator’s Dilemma when it came out about a decade ago.

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By Jim Howard, | September 17, 2012

The Analysts and The Future

Imagine if a baseball executive took the approach Forrester and Gartner take: Look at the performance of the past 10 years and grade every player. Then build the team around the “best” possible players. The problem with this approach is that most of those top players would be approaching retirement.

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By Jim Howard, | August 27, 2012

What Do We Want From Our WCM?

The right way to buy WCM is to look at what you want to get out of it. Here’s one description I saw recently in a client meeting and thought was very well phrased.

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By Jim Howard, | August 20, 2012

WCM is not a Product

Web Content Management (WCM) is a service. Let me say that again: It’s a service! A WCM product is implemented and from then on, the WCM system is the hub of a service delivered to the marketing team.

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By Jim Howard, | August 6, 2012

CrownPeak’s Software Architecture

CrownPeak’s architecture is what makes things better for our customers. It’s the grand canyon of differentiation for us. Anybody can host a Web Content Management System (WCM) in the cloud, but that’s not the key.

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By Jim Howard, | July 30, 2012

SaaS Web Content Management Turns 10

We started this company over 10 years ago. To say we were early in the market for SaaS is a bit of an understatement. When we started out, our customers tended to have limited IT support to get their Web Content Management (WCM) needs met. In other words, the early buyers were customers with few other options.

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By Jim Howard, | July 23, 2012

Power to the People: Massive Parallel Development

Perhaps the most important business problem CrownPeak solves is enabling massively parallel development for large organizations with many web sites. Picture the large organization with 100+ web projects.

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By Jim Howard, | July 18, 2012

IT and the Shared Service

Enterprise IT organizations and/or eBusiness groups have created and run many of the most impressive Web Content Management (WCM) projects ever seen. These WCM shared services span hundreds of sites, integrate dozens of custom and 3rd party functions, and support entire global organizations.

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By Jim Howard, | July 10, 2012

WCM is the Hub of Digital Marketing

Web content management (WCM) is the hub of digital marketing. It enables the creation and management of web sites and the mobile web experience. It is the “feeder” application for customer data flowing into the CRM system.

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By Jim Howard, | June 27,2012