Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Jul-2010
Adobe Systems today announced their intent to acquire Day Software. We've seen Adobe featuring in many Content Management RFPs and although they had some of the necessary pieces including Adobe Contribute and LiveCycle, they were never taken seriously as a Content Management player. An OEM deal with Alfresco a few years back though well intentioned didn't help much but this announcement will surely change the situation dramatically. ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Jul-2010
With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has strongly promoted the platform's upgraded content management capabilities. Now that the hype is died down, and there are production implementations in the field, it's possible to take a harder look ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-Jul-2010
Today we are releasing a fairly substantial update to our ECM evaluation research. Over the past few months we have been looking in detail into product changes across some of the larger and better known ECM suite vendors ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Jul-2010
Yesterday morning I was reading through Oracle's recently updated price list (yes my Monday mornings really are that exciting). I was thinking that I have long valued the fact that I can access simple, clear and open prices from major vendors like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. I might occasionally gasp at the prices listed ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Jul-2010
Many of our enterprise research customers are reporting an interesting trend: fewer responses to their RFPs (a.k.a., "tenders"). Even vendors they had at the top of their lists may decline to bid. This puzzles them ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Jul-2010
There is an outcry in the UK at the moment over the cost of building and maintaining Government websites. The figures released by the government relating to individual department website costs ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Jul-2010
I'll agree with mega-vendor Autonomy on one key point: Search technology is really important. But is it so important that search functionality should dominate your choice in a content management system? ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 6-Jul-2010
After a long spending spree -- pretty much on anything XML -- SDL has now acquired small Dutch vendor Xopus ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 28-Jun-2010
The community commons ECM Maturity Model (www.ECM3.org) progressed to v2.0 last week ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Jun-2010
I'm in the middle of reviewing feedback for a number of ECM product evaluations that I'm presently updating. The upgrade from minor version to minor version (1.7 to 1.8 etc) is usually heralded by loud marketing cries from the suppliers. Closer inspection though tends to reveal fixes and gaps plugged, rather than anything revolutionary ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Jun-2010
In the UK today, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne will announce his emergency budget details. The one thing we know in advance is that this will contain some of the most severe cuts in recent history ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Jun-2010
One of the fun aspects of being an analyst is that people ask you to judge things. Though we refrain from categorizing "best" products and vendors, judging actual projects that exemplify good information management practice is always ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Jun-2010
So here we are in London, the last stop on the UK ECM roadshow. London is certainly the biggest and busiest of the four events, with more from the private sector than public sector at this one ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Jun-2010
For IT professionals it is taken as a matter of faith that automation improves efficiency, that making paper based documents and processes electronic is, in and of itself, a default benefit. But experience in the real world paints a more mixed and problematic picture ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Jun-2010
Theme of the day? Difficult to say really, but if I were to choose two it would be the content chaos and archiving ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Jun-2010
Day 2 of the UK AIIM Roadshow and we are here at the Reebok Stadium Bolton (home of Bolton Wanderers football club). Theme of today amongst the attendees seems to be ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 15-Jun-2010
Here's our latest take on the marketplaces we cover. We still can't fit all the vendors we evaluate, but we're getting closer ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Jun-2010
Day One of the AIIM UK Roadshow started in Glasgow, a place I know pretty well. The sessions were followed by a long but stunningly beautiful drive down ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-Jun-2010
One of our predictions for this year was about the rise of mobile as a delivery channel -- much more closely integrated with your content technologies. Most vendors provide some sort of mechanism for delivering content to mobile channels ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-Jun-2010
Just a note to say that I will be at each of upcoming AIIM UK Roadshow the week of the 14th June. I will be giving the closing keynote each day ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Jun-2010
Autonomy today announced that it has acquired CA's (formerly Computer Associates) Information Governance assets. These consist primarily of two main products ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Jun-2010
In the American corporate world, eDiscovery is the "pain du jour," as requests to find and turn over documents grow exponentially ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Jun-2010
Both IBM and now EMC have recently touted their improved Case Management capabilities, so I thought it timely to take a look at this area in a little more detail ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Jun-2010
I was myself once a systems integrator, and many of my friends still work for systems integrators. This is my roundabout way of saying sorry in advance for the following video ... Continue Reading
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