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Ghosts at the AIIM Banquet (IA and Microsoft)

9-Mar-2004

Tags: Document Management (ECM), Portals and Content Integration, Information Architecture, Marketplace at Large, SharePoint 2010

In its annual Expo now underway in New York City, AIIM (the "Enterprise Content Management Association") has once again laid out a surprisingly sumptuous banquet of exhibitors (500+) and conference tracks (5+) for visitors. But there are 2 ghosts haunting the halls of the Jacob Javits Center. The first one is Metadata: it props up every meaningful ECM solution, but vendors and architects rarely want to talk about it, perhaps because applying metadata at an enterprise level is so incredibly hard. The second ghost wafting uneasily among the expo aisles and corridors is Miscrosoft SharePoint, an almost viral doc management and portal solution for which the rest of the ECM organism has had only scant immunological response to date. Every ECM vendor has to ask: should we co-exist with SharePoint, or try to fight it?...
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