Open Source CMS, Market Share Report, and White Elephants

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Last weekend, digital agency water&stone, released their 2011 Open Source CMS Market Share Report. I consider this report one of the few non-bias and detailed surveys that come across my desk each year. The report isn't perfect, but the report does help give a good snapshot on the state of who's who in the world of open source content management systems.

You are most definitely going to want to take a look at the details in the report. The findings in this year’s report were based on a survey of more than 2,500 CMS users and additional research into a wide variety of measures of market share and brand strength. I'm still combing through the survey and taking note of the interesting individual nuggets of information that can be found in the results of the survey.

WaterandStone's 2011 Open Source CMS Markert Share ReportNot surprisingly, the report confirms the ranking position of open source's three most dominate Web content management systems in the market. The press release itself summarizes the results this way:

PHP-based systems WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal continue to dominate the web content management space. But, while the Big Three remain unchanged from last year, the Report concludes that WordPress retains a clear lead in the face of decreasing competition from Joomla!.

The decreasing competition from Joomla! can be seen most noticeably in the decrease of installations reported by the survey respondents in 2011 compared to 2010. The survey does note that this dramatic drop is likely due to the Joomla! community aggressively promoting the survey last year. This year, the promotion efforts were not coordinated and less influential. I only point this out because this is an example of where the report isn't "perfect" via inconsistencies in the yearly survey sample introducing  a margin of error in the trend comparisons. 

Websites Built With Drupal Take Top Spots on 2011 Inc. 5000 List

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Volacci’s Extensive Study Confirms 4% of Companies on List Are Drupal Users – A Significant Growth Over Previous Years

Austin, TX – Volacci, the search engine marketing company that leverages Drupal content management system technologies to create customers from Web visitors, recently conducted extensive research to identify websites built on the Drupal Content Management System (CMS). The findings confirmed what has been an identified trend in corporate website governance--that more and more high profile and scalable sites are migrating to Drupal.

10 Most Popular Intranet Collaboration Features via Bitrix Survey

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Bitrix, Inc., a technology trendsetter in business communications solutions, introduces a survey of the top-10 most popular intranet collaboration benefits that allow organizations to improve internal efficiency and raise workforce productivity.

Based on analysis of 1.000+ real-life installations of Bitrix Intranet among small and medium-sized businesses and many years of implementing social-enabled intranet solutions, Bitrix has shortlisted the most popular collaboration features.

Rank Intranet Collaboration Feature
1 Employee availability and presence tracking
2 Instant messaging and video conferencing
3 Meetings / conference room management
4 Virtual workgroups
5 Shared documents
6 Workflow management
7 Routine processes automation
8 Information and expert discovery
9 Idea management and social networking
10 Task management

The top ten list reflects the most-used intranet collaboration features and correspond to the most popular adoption patterns. Intriguingly, the priority of listings doesn’t match the wide-spread notion of the customer demand among SMBs. Indeed, task management, shared documents and content search are on the list but concede position to the seemingly less important features like presence tracking, instant messaging and meetings management. This is due to the fact that SMBs normally start the intranet implementation not with the most ‘famous’ features but rather those which are easy to adopt.

The survey confirms that SMBs are mainly interested in simple collaboration tools with the shortest adoption period. The organizations prefer step-by-step intranet adoption that starts from the most commonly used features and ends with heavy-weight functionality. In fact, this process may stretch over months depending on the organization’s readiness, internal governance and c-level support.

Considering the growing popularity of the intranet technology, Bitrix predicts that in the next year this list may undergo a major shift. Many organizations will be one step ahead in the intranet adoption and proceed with implementing more comprehensive collaboration features. At the same time, we believe the market will be notable for greater awareness of the benefits of intranets, as vendors provide better guidance to speed up the technology adoption.

To name names, Bitrix anticipates business processes and records management, social CRM and e-learning to become shortlisted. The leading intranet vendors have already integrated these features to let organizations ease the burden of third-party software acquisition, implementation and maintenance. At the same time, these are crucial tools for effective business management.

The Drupal v. Joomla Survey Results Are In

A couple months ago I posted an entry on this blog announcing Webology Solutions' Drupal v Joomla Survey.  Well now the results are in.

 

We had nearly 200 reponses from professional web developers versed in Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress and a number of other content management systems.  The results are available in two formats.  We have posted a pdf file containing summary results for each question asked in the survey.  We have also posted the detailed data in a comma separated file available for download (Personally identifying data has been removed).   The results of the survey are now posted on our blog.  You can download the files from our download section at WebologySolutions.com.

 

In the following weeks we will be posting analysis of the data, discussing issues such as what functions each CMS supports best and which CMS makes it easier to develop custom applications.

Drupal Coding Survey

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The more I have come to understand how Drupal works the less code I have had to write to create different types of systems. This is mainly thanks to modules such as CCK, View, Panels, Organic Groups, Ubercart, E-commerce and a couple more. I would wager that with the use of some key modules, a theme and some snippets when necessary Drupal can be used to accomplish just about all that is needed for a web system. Do you agree, please take the Drupal Survey at http://mahalasoft.co.za

Joomla vs Drupal Opinion Survey

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There are several good comparative reviews of Joomla and Drupal available on the internet.  However, many of these reviews are out of date.  None of the reviews I’ve seen rely on the opinions of broad selection of experienced professionals.  Usually the reviews are the personal reflections of one well informed individual.  Still, a lot can be gained by gathering the opinions of a large group of professionals, and seeing what patterns emerge.