Length: 15 pages For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals
Charlene Li June 27, 2006
The Forrester Wave™: Blogging Platforms, Q2 2006
iUpload Leads, But Other Platforms Also Meet Diverse Needs Well
by Charlene Li
with Chris Charron, Tenley McHarg

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Forrester evaluated leading blogging platforms across 54 criteria and found that iUpload leads the market with its robust blogging capabilities and its strong strategic vision of a blog as a lightweight content management system (CMS), a collaboration and knowledge management tool, and even as a foundation to form communities of customers. When choosing between a full-featured suite like iUpload's Customer Conversation System or strong blogging-focused solutions like Movable Type and WordPress, companies should have a well-developed vision of how blogging will be used within the enterprise and then select a vendor that shares that vision.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemCorporate Blogging Hits Prime Time

itemBlogging Is About More Than Just User Posts

itemBlogging Platforms Evaluation Overview

itemCriteria: Offering, Strategy, And Market Presence

itemQualifications: Clients, Tenure, And Differentiation

itemToday's Vendors Meet Diverse Needs

itemConducting Your Own Forrester Wave Analysis

itemVendor Profiles

itemLeaders

itemStrong Performers

itemContenders

Recommendations

itemVision First, Platform Second

itemSupplemental Material

Forrester conducted in-depth evaluations of nine blogging platforms: Drupal, iUpload's Customer Conversation System, Roller, Six Apart's Movable Type and TypePad, Telligent Systems' Community Server, Traction Software's TeamPage, UserLand Software's Manila, and WordPress. To further enhance our analysis, we conducted client reference interviews with 30 user companies, including 3M, CNET Networks, General Motors, IBM, In-Q-Tel, McDonald's, Oracle, SAP, Time, Wells Fargo, and Ziff Davis Media.

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Analyst: Charlene Li
Technology: Customer Experience, Enterprise Collaboration, Information & Knowledge Management, Social Computing & Web 2.0
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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