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Helping clients choose optimal Web Content Management solutions

Ars Logica is a vendor-neutral advisory firm that helps clients assess their content-management requirements, match those requirements with optimal solutions, and design process changes necessary for implementation success. We believe that Ars Logica's value comes from the combination of more than a dozen years' experience analyzing content-management software, actual hands-on product knowledge, and a thorough understanding of how to solve business problems through technology and process improvements.

This ability assumes vendor neutrality. Unlike other analyst firms, we understand that objectivity becomes compromised under certain conditions: (1) when the firm makes its money from vendor-funded white papers and conference sponsorships, (2) when the firm's sales force successfully pressures researchers to take vendor briefings based on the probability of selling services, (3) when analysts themselves have no direct experience testing WCM products, (4) when the firm's no-vendor-communication policies prevent the correction of errors in its reports, and (5) when an implementation services provider - functioning as consultant - is limited to the two or three vendors whose products it knows best.

Cost of Homegrown WCM Systems Gone Wild

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Several recent Ars Logica clients report that in the three years preceding our technology-selection engagements, the cost of developing and maintaining homegrown CMS (content management system) applications exceeded their original estimates by more than 300 percent. In one case, the estimate was $150,000 and actual cost surpassed $700,000. Why does this happen?

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The CMS Selection Team: Who Should Be On It?

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Ars Logica frequently gets asked who should be on CMS selection teams. While factors such as geography and organizational politics often help determine the answer, companies frequently overlook input from key individuals and business units with indispensable knowledge about the technologies and business processes that need replacing.

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Ars Logica Donates 2% of Gross Revenue to the Humane Society

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No explanation required.  It's just a good thing to do.  As we grow, we'll up the percentage.