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Adriaan Bloem

Vendor Landscapes and Horse Races

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 19-Aug-2010

There's an odd fascination with equestrianism in technology. Vendor landscapes are often described as horse races; there's leaders and laggards, winners and losers. That's great for gamblers, investors, and jockeys. But it's not very useful ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

What Exactly is IDOL, Anyway?

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Aug-2010

There's a lot of mysticism shrouding Autonomy's mega-search offering, "IDOL." Not in the least bit because every piece of software that is acquired by the vendor is either "plugged into," "powered by," or "integrated with" IDOL. Supposedly, ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

SharePoint's FAST 2010 is not as cheap as you might think

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Aug-2010

However, make no mistake: FAST may be a lot less expensive, but it's certainly not going to come cheap. Not in the least bit because implementing it right will still be an expert's job. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Making sense of IT gibberish

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Aug-2010

Explaining technical concepts -- which are often quite abstract -- can be quite a challenge. So at the Real Story Group we often try to be creative in how we go about explaining things ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

How to get the right vendors to respond to your RFP

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Justifying the cost of e-government

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

Tony Byrne

Don't ogle search if you really want content management

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

UK Budget Cuts and Public Sector IT

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

Tony Byrne

Get your updated vendor subway map

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

UK roadshow diary Day One - dynamic publishing

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

See you at the UK ECM Roadshow

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Autonomy buys CA Information Governance - A First Take

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

No magic in eDiscovery

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

Adriaan Bloem

Exalead acquired by Dassault Systemes

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 9-Jun-2010

Dassault Systèmes, a major product lifecycle management (PLM) vendor, has announced the acquisition of enterprise search vendor Exalead. Which of course leads to the two usual questions with any acquisition ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Video: Meeting the System Integrator

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

Theresa Regli

Scoring spreadsheets, the bane of my life

Added By Theresa Regli on 11-May-2010

My colleague Alan Pelz-Sharpe and I frequently engage in friendly debate. Recently, we've been discussing the pros and cons of using scoring spreadsheets in the vendor evaluation process ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

UK ECM Roadshow in June

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

One of the events that I most looking forward to this year is the AIIM UK Roadshow - 14-17 June ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Exalead keeps tabs on Sarkozy

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 14-Apr-2010

Politics aside, I've always enjoyed watching the occasional French president's speech on television. Where U.S. presidents act, well, presidential, and the Queen will be regal, a French head of state is much more expansive. And nowadays, we can also compare another style: on-line presence ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

The willful ignorance of business users

Added By Theresa Regli on 8-Apr-2010

One of my favorite parts of my job is the educational aspect - helping people new to content technology understand what it does and how it works. ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Pardon the ECM Interruption

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 7-Apr-2010

This session will be a fast-paced debate exploring a variety of controversial ECM-related issues and trends ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Enterprise search versus federated search

Added By Theresa Regli on 5-Apr-2010

A question often asked by people learning about search technology is the difference between enterprise and federated search. It is not the simplest question to answer ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Think you can you stump these consultants?

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 1-Apr-2010

For the last several years, I've had the honor of hosting our Stump the Consultant panel at the info360: AIIM Expo ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Pathbreaking research focuses on Human Cloud

Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Apr-2010

I'm delighted to announce today that we have just released new research on emerging technologies that will transfer live human beings to the Cloud ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Hiring a UK/Europe Account Executive

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 31-Mar-2010

As we continue to grow globally, we're looking for a motivated account exec in the UK or Europe ... Continue Reading

 

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