Tony Byrne

Mr. Byrne is founder of Real Story Group, an independent analyst firm that evaluates digital workplace and marketing technologies for enterprise customers. He is the original author of Real Story Group's web content management research, a former journalist and a 20-year technology industry veteran. Prior to 2001, he managed an engineering team at a systems integration firm. He now focuses his own research on enterprise community and collaboration software, SharePoint and web content management.
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Fall & Winter Digital Issue 2019
The Rise of Omni-Channel Content Platforms
BY Tony Byrne
Dec. 10 2019
While many industry pundits have focused on traditional enterprise content management (ECM) vendors transitioning from document management to content services platforms, a parallel, and potentially a more...
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Winter Digital Issue 2018
How to Select a Digital Experience Platform
BY Tony Byrne
Feb. 6 2018
A critical precondition for any digital transformation strategy is selecting the right technology. Yet, industry surveys suggest that more than half of all projects fail to identify the best solution for...
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December 2015
Digital Transformation: Mind the Gaps
BY Tony Byrne
Dec. 18 2015
Digital transformation has moved up in the list of enterprise priorities for good reason, but getting beyond the standard pundit exhortations to go “digital first” means answering a practical...
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    Navigating Uncertainty
    By John Zimmerer
    Economic pressures, regulatory shifts and evolving consumer expectations are converging to create a complex environment for health insurers. Amid this turbulence, many payers are hesitant to invest in
  • Getting Billing ‘Just Right’
    By Mitch Anderson
    How much do I owe?  How do I pay? Where’s my bill? Are any of your customers asking these questions? If so, it might be time to rethink your utility bills. 
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    From a Tick Box to Competitive Advantage
    By Liz Stephen and Mia Papanicolaou
    If there’s one thing we’ve learned after decades in customer communications, it’s this: notifications are never “just notifications.”
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    Why Every Document Is Now a Touchpoint
    By Gary Gregg
    When I think about how far customer communications have evolved, it’s clear that we’ve entered a new era, one where the regulated document is moving from being an artifact of a transaction
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    Turning Resistance into Resilience
    By Angele Taylor
    Resistance to change is a familiar challenge in any transformation initiative, but it becomes especially entrenched in document-heavy environments. These are the systems and workflows that have been b