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Added By Kashyap Kompella on 13-Dec-2011
A recent conversation with a large global enterprise about their Digital Asset Management project reminded me of the Zen Kōan – "Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand clapping?" The project in question has weathered some turbulence ... 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 27-May-2011
One of the most common questions an enterprise technology buyer will ask of a vendor or supplier is, "What do you know about our business?" It's the kind of question that one gets asked in job interviews too, and just like that personal situation, how the question gets answered can have a huge impact on the result ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-May-2011
Well, it has been almost a year since Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch announced that his firm was to make a major acquisition. Today it happened. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 4-Apr-2011
Last week we published an advisory paper for our ECM subscribers that analyzes some of the key challenges and limitations of using SharePoint's native services for Records Management (RM). The briefing focuses on the standard configurations supplied by Microsoft, outside of third-party software options. Here's the outline ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Dec-2010
The longtime document and records management product iManage WorkSite has had a turbulent history: launched in the dot-com boom years, it quickly found an enthusiastic customer base in the Legal sector. Acquired by Interwoven in 2003 it carried on much as before with relatively little interference from the web-centric management at Interwoven. But things change ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Oct-2010
In the past week mega-vendor Autonomy saw its share price plummet by 20% -- a huge drop by anyone's standards. Much discussed in the financial press, it's also news that will be much discussed and publicized by Autonomy's competitors ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 4-Aug-2010
If you were to trust in the marketing swill that comes out of the vendor and analyst community these days, you would believe that large organizations are not just embracing ERM (Electronic Records Management) but that they are positively hugging and kissing it too ... 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 17-May-2010
One of the more interesting and surprising things to emerge from last week's EMC World event in Boston was that the core Documentum Content Server has been repositioned into the xCP (Intelligent Case Management) product stack. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Apr-2010
I just finished reading an excellent article in Hedge Funds Review called "Records management in the new regulatory environment." It's piece that echoes much the same message I've been preaching for years now: ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Mar-2010
Yesterday we released a new advisory paper on workflow. The briefing focusses in particular on what you need to look for (and what you can dispense with) in Web CMS and Digital Asset Management environments ... Continue Reading
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
Added By Theresa Regli on 13-Nov-2009
Earlier this year I caused quite a stir when I predicted the death of taxonomies. Taxonomists worldwide told me I was an idiot, nuts, completely delusional. Some were deeply concerned that their jobs were threatened, as if employers would change org charts based on my prediction. Others secretly told me they agreed ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 2-Sep-2009
Yesterday, EMC announced the acquisition of e-discovery vendor Kazeon ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Jun-2009
This past week Search-cum-ECM vendor Autonomy announced that it was releasing an integration for its recently acquired WorkSite product with the iPhone ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-Jun-2009
At CMS Watch we evaluate an awful lot of products, and making sense of all this research can be a challenge. ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 2-Mar-2009
At last week's Henry Stewart Briefing on Digital Asset Management last week in Toronto, there was an prevailing theme ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 9-Feb-2009
As an obsessive fan of baseball's Boston Red Sox, I am one of the last people to defend the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez. As an analyst of content management technology and practices ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 20-Nov-2008
Recently, I've heard several people make the statement that "law firms grow most during tough economic times" ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Aug-2008
It wasn't news that rocked the world, and in fact most observers didn't even notice it, but I was struck ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 22-May-2008
Lawyers were well represented (you might say) at this year's Enterprise Search Summit in New York. At times, ESS felt more like an e-discovery conference ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Feb-2008
I sat in on the keynote panel at LegalTech in New York yesterday. As an old cynic I tend to think that I have heard it all before (and I probably have), but yesterday I was jolted awake by some quotes that left me ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Aug-2007
This past week ECM vendor Open Text announced that they will deliver a major upgrade to the acquired (ex-Hummingbird) eDocs technology for the Legal sector. Not earth-shattering news, but important news nonetheless ... Continue Reading
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