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Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Feb-2012
It is becoming quite the fad these days in the world of ECM (Enterprise Content Management) to make dramatic and seemingly generous gestures to liberate buyers locked into legacy systems ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Feb-2012
OK, so it's not exactly Desperate Housewives or Survivor or Social Business when it comes to juicy topics, but it's important stuff. And in the rush for organizations to leap aboard the latest 2.0 bandwagon, they often overlook substantial efficiency gains or kick them to the side ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 6-Feb-2012
I enjoyed an excellent day in Oxford last week speaking (and listening to the other speakers) at a CMS Expert Group round table event. Many topics of interest emerged, but the one that underlay several discussions -- and is also close to my heart -- was, "When is a Web Content Management project not a Web Content Management project?" ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Jan-2012
We've just released an advisory paper, "Are cloud-based file-sharing services too immature for the enterprise?” ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Jan-2012
There is of course much interest these days in both the cloud and more general usage of hosted/off-premise environments for managing electronic documents. Indeed it's an area that we have been receiving many more inquiries from our advisory service customers over this past year. Yet despite the interest, one area I find few buyers investigate thoroughly enough is that of file encryption ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Jan-2012
We have recently published our Document Management - ECM Market Analysis for 2012, and as a where-is-the-marketplace-headed snapshot, I think it's an interesting one. I have been writing these since the late 1990s and it's one of several analyst tasks that I really look forward to ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Jan-2012
In the enterprise search community there has been a lot of talk recently about the lack of deep coverage by major analyst firms such as Gartner and Forrester. Many feel slighted and believe that their industry is a large and thriving one, one that is unjustly ignored ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Nov-2011
Recently I fulfilled a lifelong ambition to be an actor (minor parts - small films) and I finally came to understand the meaning of the thespian question, "What is my motivation?"
It is an important question that we probably don't ask enough, and buyers might want to ask the same of ECM (Enterprise Content Management) suppliers. Yes, seriously ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Nov-2011
We've just published an advisory paper for our ECM and SharePoint subscribers (non subscribers can purchase it here) analyzing the implications of large enterprise buyers considering Box.Net alongside Microsoft SharePoint ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-Nov-2011
Last week we ran the SharePoint Symposium in Washington DC and kicked off the two-day event with a question to the audience. What single word best describes "SharePoint" to you? The preponderance of negative answers thrown out surprised us ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Nov-2011
Enterprise Search engines can be divided neatly into two categories: those optimized for website search and those optimized for searching across internal information silos. Today the gap between the two is opening ever wider ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Oct-2011
I have just spent two days at the inaugural European Enterprise Search Summit in London, and left with much to think and rant about. For I listened to a series of consultants and vendors telling the audience that enterprise search was an imperative ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Oct-2011
Yesterday we learned that Lexmark, best know for its printers, had acquired Netherlands-based BPM (Business Process Management) vendor Pallas-Athena. This follows in the path of Lexmark's acquisition of Perceptive Software, a document management company (evaluated in our Document Management reviews) ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Oct-2011
Next week I will be speaking at the inaugural Enterprise Search Europe event in London 24/25th October, organized by our good friends at InfoToday and Martin White of Intranet Focus Ltd.
My talk will provide an analysis of the current European Search Market, drawn from our extensive research in this area. If you are ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Oct-2011
Oracle has announced its intention to buy Endeca, a major independent purveyor of Enterprise Search technology. It's not in the least bit surprising as Autonomy (arguably Endeca's biggest rival) had been in talks with Oracle prior to their acquisition by HP, and from that alone it was clear that Oracle was interested in acquiring advanced search technology ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Oct-2011
Below is an excerpt from an interview I had with with Australian journalist David Walker. I thought it worth re-publishing here too. In a wide ranging chat undertaken whilst I was grumpy and jetlagged we discussed amongst other things Interwoven (now Autonomy soon to be HP), Vignette (OpenText), and Microsoft ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Sep-2011
Next Wednesday I will be hosting a free SharePoint-themed webinar. My intent is to look at SharePoint in 2011, its victories to date and its challenges ahead. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Sep-2011
This past week HP fired their CEO Leo Apotheker, making him the third CEO in a row to part with HP prematurely. But of all the departures this one one is the least surprising by far. His announcement that he was to buy Autonomy for a staggering $10.3 Billion -- far more than anyone else figured the firm was worth -- and spin of its market leading PC division was surely the most spectacular act of self-immolation in a long time ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Sep-2011
Since HP decided to buy Autonomy for just over $10 Billion dollars, there has been a lot of discussion over the acquisitions that Autonomy itself made over the years to expand its portfolio of products and grow its revenues. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 29-Aug-2011
Now that HP has announced its intent to buy Autonomy, the deal has come under a lot of scrutiny. One area though that few have yet to look at in detail -- and of particular interest to us as buyers' advocates -- is the whole topic of the IDOL search OEM business ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Aug-2011
I cannot say that the acquisition by HP of search giant Autonomy bodes well. Taking the parties' past histories into account, this simply doesn't seem to be a good long term match. Hence my advice is ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Aug-2011
The research and consulting giant Gartner recently released a maturity model for ECM (Enterprise Content Management). Since its release (it's an overhaul of an earlier model), I have had a number of people point out to me the similarities between it and the open source maturity model for ECM that we contribute to, called ECM3, which is now a part of MIKE2.0 ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Jul-2011
When you advise customers selecting software, as we do, on occasion you run into very awkward and difficult situations. Recently we've seen more cases in which we (RSG) are advising buyers, and software vendors bidding on an RFP process have contacted us directly to elicit information and advice, or in two particular cases to try to bribe us ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Jul-2011
OpenText today announced that they are to buy Texas based-SharePoint partner Global360. Most acquisitions like this end up becoming quite disruptive for you the customer. Is this one any different? ... Continue Reading
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