It's been a while since I added anything to this blog but I read an email from Tony Byrne at the Real Story (CMS Watch to you and me) and felt compelled to quote something in his newsletter. I am not saying I agree but he is a highly respected industry analyst...

'The product formerly known as RedDot is losing altitude at a precipitous rate. Alterian is discontinuing its .NET-based offering (the former Immediacy product).'

We have seen a disappointing response to RedDot but I have no knowledge of the discontinuation of Immediacy. Tony does comment in the same newsletter about the vibrancy of other players in the same space including our favourite EPiServer.

2010 has been very exciting so far with our move to new offices in January and first quarter revenue up 87% from the same period last year. Now at the beginning of April we're delighted to introduce our brand values; innovation, quality, value and fun.

Built around the core message, "Web strategies, solutions and support that empower organisations to engage their audience in the digital economy," our brand values influence how we operate as a company and what you should expect when engaging with us.

As a service based company quality and value are key factors in establishing and maintaining client relationships and building trust. Without embracing innovation we simply wouldn't survive. Fun is the major component in our ability to deliver our client experience and to grow our business, if we didn't enjoy what we do we wouldn't be doing it.

We have finished the migration of Salford City Council's Obtree sites to RedDot. Six sites have now gone live and are working well. The migration itself was, in my humble opinion, a resounding success. The issues we had were not technical but process and you can always learn from those for the next one. Well done to Chandra, Ken and the team for bringing this one in on time and budget. We are preparing a case study to document the project and will make the metrics available so you will be able to see how much more effective the mim:switch software is than the manual or other automated options.

We have already been commissioned to begin the next one and are in discussions about another two.

We are hoping to have the opportunity for a migration from Obtree to EPiServer soon (the test migrations to EPiServer are quicker than those to RedDot) and we are looking forward to that.

If you are a user of Obtree (Livelink WCM PS) and would like to know what options you have for migrating to a new platform please get in touch.

I have been away for a few days but the Salford City Council migration project has charged relentlessly towards a successful conclusion. The five smaller sites have all gone live and the main site is with the Council for UAT. There is still a bit of work to do at their end getting all of their forms, workflow processes etc in place but it looks like we have had a very successful project migrating the content of 6 sites from Obtree (Livelink WCM PS) to RedDot.

We are putting together all of the metrics from the project (number of pages, time to migrate, tolerance levels etc) into a case study which will be available once the project is signed off. In the meantime if anyone is interested in finding out more about our Obtree migration tool or would like to see a demo migration from Obtree to RedDot, EPiServer or Immediacy, please get in touch.

Yesterday Louis and I attended the annual EPiServer customer and partner day in London. The event was surprisingly well attended with about 300 delegates. We were treated to some excellent presentations, a look at some of the very cool new modules for EPiServer (CMO, SEO etc), a tour of version 6 and a great lunch. These events are often a bit dull and pointless. Not so yesterday's event. Next year I hope we will be able to find the time to go out to the big event in Stockholm as well as the UK event.