MDS today announced the launch of MDS Accelerate, the newest version of its integrated revenue and customer management platform. MDS Accelerate delivers flexibility for Service Providers to bring new services and business models to market quickly and effectively

At the 2013 CMS Expo Learning & Business Conference I have the privilege of moderating a panel focused on the Cloud. That's actually a broad topic, but I think it's a topic that is increasingly becoming well understood by the CMS community. Last year, I moderated a similar panel and, in my opinion, we spent way too much time trying to define the Cloud. This year, I'm hoping we're past the "what is it" phase and spend much more time talking about real problems, real benefits, and the challenges the content management industry may be facing by moving toward a Cloud solution.

dotCMS, an open source, Java-based content management system, is proud to announce the release of v2.3 – which continues to add features that address real world challenges faced by content managers, web developers and java developers in the modern enterprise.

Critical Media, whose Critical Mention real-time broadcast intelligence platform is used by more than 1,500 clients including nine of the world's top 10 brands, today announced the addition of Sky News to its rapidly expanding UK broadcast content selection.

"So much ink has been spilled deriding the false concept of a "Facebook friend," but I can tell you that a "Facebook friend" is better than nothing."

- Paul Miller, "I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet", The Verge, May 1, 2013.

Thanks to numerous optimizations and improvements, ProcessWire 2.3 is our fastest, smartest and most capable version yet. In version 2.3 of ProcessWire, major upgrades have been made throughout the entire system. If you are using an older version of ProcessWire, now is a good time to upgrade to ProcessWire 2.3. Below the fold is a partial list of what's been added and changed.

I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. The custom CMS discussion has reared it’s ugly head a few times this year. Ron Miller asked his Fierce audience “why would companies still be building a custom CMS” as recently as this past February, which also spawned a discussion on CMS Connected the same month. For us, this is the third time this year we've come up against this most ethereal of competitors. The first was in a pitch in March with a local ad agency who insists that a custom CMS is the most efficient way to go. That was followed by an ongoing discussion with one of our long-time customers about whether they would renew this year in the wake of building an internal development team.

Qumu, a leading business video platform provider, today announced the results of its April 2013 Enterprise Portals Usage Survey, which looked at the topic of employee video collaboration – how they use it today, how they want to use it, and barriers to action.