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Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Holistic Information Managemement

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Mar-2010

Whilst recently working on a change management initiative for one of our multinational clients, I had a bit of an "aha!" moment. I was in the midst of explaining to the assembled team members how their future information management system ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Evaluating vendor proposals - Kill your spreadsheets

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Mar-2010

As you may know, a lot of our work at the Real Story Group involves helping people make the right information management buying decisions. Not surprisingly, one of the most common areas where our customers seek our counsel is with vendor scoring and assessment methodologies ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

EMC aims to demonstrate interoperability with contest

Added By Kas Thomas on 26-Feb-2010

In case you weren't thinking "interoperability" was EMC's middle name, EMC hopes to convince the world otherwise with its EDN Monster Mash -- a Developer Challenge designed to showcase the mashability of EMC's Celerra, Centerra, Documentum, and Atmos Online product lines ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

What is Content Management?

Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Feb-2010

There's a question that keeps popping up around our industry: "What is Enterprise Content Management?" ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Which is better for you - platforms or products

Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Feb-2010

Today we released a new advisory paper, "How the New Platforms vs. Products Debate Impacts Your Success." Subscribers to any of our EI Watch, SharePoint Watch, and CMS Watch research streams can ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Open Source is not always cheaper

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Feb-2010

On the document-management shortlist of a mid sized publishing firm this month lay four bidders: a specialist incumbent, two household name vendors (IBM & Microsoft), and an open source option ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Google - unsuitable for the enterprise

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010

For years now Google has played fast and loose with information confidentiality and privacy issues. As if further proof were needed ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

SAP, EMC, and Open Text - Who cares?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010

Over the last few weeks there has been a flurry of media interest in the fact that SAP is reselling EMC Documentum and Open Text products. It's a flurry (bordering on blizzard) that is of little or no relevance to actual buyers of these software products ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Keeping it Real

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010

Welcome to the Real Story Group! For my colleagues and I this is an exciting time, and part of a continuing adventure that I hope you will join. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

The value of the AS IS in Information Management Change

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Feb-2010

One of the founding principals of business process change is the concept of understanding and defining the current "As Is" situation, before analyzing it and then constructing an ideal "To Be" situation. ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

CMIS Gets a Boost

Added By Apoorv Durga on 17-Feb-2010

An open source implementation of the new Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS) was released last week called "xCMIS." Developed by the folks at eXo Platform ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Welcome to the Real Story Group

Added By Tony Byrne on 17-Feb-2010

Welcome to the Real Story Group. Today we cut over to our new website(s) ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Big changes coming at CMS Watch

Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Feb-2010

Early next week, we will be re-launching this website, adding some new sites, and at a more fundamental level, revamping the way we serve our customers. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

ROI calculations are a joke

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Feb-2010

Our colleagues over at Forrester recently undertook some interesting research regarding content management investment attitudes in 2010 (DM, RM and WCM). The overall finding was along the lines one might expect ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

An iPad for DM and RM?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 5-Feb-2010

The launch of Apple's iPad last week has caught the imagination of armchair critics worldwide ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Vendor Tip: perform some basic research before disqualifying prospects

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Feb-2010

Our job here is to advise buyers of technology, never vendors. But today I am going to make an exception and give the vendors out there a solid tip. Do your homework before responding to RFPs ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

SAP to resell EMC Documentum

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 2-Feb-2010

Last week SAP announced that it would begin reselling EMC Documentum products to the Insurance and Finance industries. It's not a world-shaking announcement, but it is interesting for one simple reason: ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Oracle Sun Update

Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Jan-2010

While Steve Jobs was introducing Apple's iPad, Oracle was explaining its own approach to hybrid hardware/software offerings. Oracle yesterday announced that it has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Oracle and SharePoint

Added By Tony Byrne on 26-Jan-2010

Among the various categories of content technologies that we evaluate, Oracle has been very quiet over the past year. For the past two years, actually, Oracle has urged customers and partners to look forward to the "11g" series of upgrades across its various application sets ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Seeking UK/Europe Sales and Customer Supt Exec

Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Jan-2010

We're looking to hire a UK- or Europe-based (with native English) sales and support executive. You can ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

DAM moves - Tata acquires BT Mosaic

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Jan-2010

Today the Indian IT services giant Tata announced that it was to acquire BT Mosaic. It's an acquisition worth examining in a little more detail, since we will likely see more of the same over the coming years. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Who remembers the Deep Web?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Jan-2010

I heard the words "Deep Web" used this week at an industry gathering. It's something I have not heard in quite a while, and looking around me in the room I figured that few people there had any idea what this term actually refers to ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

It is Document Management from here on in...

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Jan-2010

At CMS Watch we frequently have to explain to people why we have separate research streams for WCM (Web Content Management) and ECM (Enterprise Content Management). The explanation is frequently a response to the question, "aren't they just the same thing?" The simple answer is no, they are not ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

End of an era for Open Text?

Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Jan-2010

It's not often that a well-known vendor simply vacates the software space, effectively forfeiting a chunk of the market to competitors. But that's what Open Text has decided to do with its main enterprise search offering. ... Continue Reading

 

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