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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 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 28-Jun-2011
It's a discussion that reoccurs regularly enough with Real Story Group Document Management (ECM) subscribers -- how do I get skilled ECM staff? It's a tough question to answer ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Jun-2011
Capture + workflow = ECM.
It's a simple formula that works most of the time in enterprise environments. It works for the simple reason that most electronic documents that require organizational attention typically are captured and proceed down a structured workflow ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Dec-2010
Just as Microsoft has its own very distinctive approach and definition for ECM, so too does Oracle. In fact as time goes on, Oracle's approach to ECM is becoming more individual and distinctive ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 24-Nov-2010
"Transactional document management" is a term not used often enough in my opinion. For it is, as the phrase goes, the "meat and potatoes" of ECM ... 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 11-May-2010
I have been in the document management business for over 20 years now, and though on the one hand ECM and Document Management technology has moved into the mainstream, in other regards it remains in the dark ages ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Apr-2010
Let's move onto number two in our mini-series of ECM "family trees," EMC Documentum. (The first tree was Open Text.) ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Apr-2010
This week I have been heads down reviewing RFP responses for a large ECM project. These vendor proposals could give readers the misimpression that the products in a complex suite of modules were all designed on the same drawing board ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Mar-2010
When Oracle acquired Stellent in 2006 I thought the best piece of technology they got their hands on was the imaging tools that Stellent had themselves previously acquired from Optika ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010
Welcome to the Real Story Group! For my colleagues and I this is an exciting time, and part of a continuing adventure that I hope you will join. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Sep-2009
The past year or so IBM has been promoting the concept of "Agile ECM" in its marketing for FileNet P8. It is an interesting concept both at a marketing and implementation level regardless of whether P8 itself really fits such a label itself ... 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 Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-Mar-2009
It has always surprised me how many firms name their internal ECM applications and systems after the product that it runs on. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Feb-2009
Over the years I have heard of many enterprise software customers being audited by enterprise content management (ECM) vendors ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 2-Feb-2009
Our job at CMS Watch involves more than simply writing and researching technology evaluations; we also spend a lot of time advising and guiding our customers ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Jan-2009
Quarterly results have never been so closely scrutinized as they are right now. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Dec-2008
The ECM world is dominated by EMC, Open Text, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle -- all big vendors with equally big publicity machines to keep their brands and "story" right ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Oct-2008
One of the words that makes me most cringe when I hear or see it in vendor marketing is the word scalable ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Sep-2008
SharePoint has been on my mind a lot recently, not least because we have been undertaking ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Sep-2008
Today I'm proud to announce the release of the 2009 edition of The ECM Suites Report ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 10-Sep-2008
It's often said that the great thing about industry standards is that there are so many of them. Now we have one more ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 4-Jul-2008
Open Text is back on the acquisition trail. The company announced Thursday that they ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Jun-2008
Oracle keeps moving down ECM trail with two new acquisitions to add to their growing portfolio. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-May-2008
As an "Enterprise-focused" content management analyst, I am asked two basic questions on a regular basis ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Apr-2008
It's hard to know how Documentum is doing these days, now that it's been assimilated into EMC (the $32 billion ILM colossus) ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 13-Mar-2008
It seems to me IDC may have missed (or at least skimmed over) some important conclusions in its newly released 2008 update of last year's widely cited The Expanding Digital Universe ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Jan-2008
Blink and you would have missed it -- for lost in the all the headlines of ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-Jan-2008
So EMC (read: Documentum) acquired Document Sciences. The announcement came over the holiday period, and has already been ... Continue Reading
Added By Ann Rockley on 7-Aug-2007
While much of the world was enjoying their vacation, EMC made a quiet announcement of some significance: buying X-Hive, a Dutch company that provides a native XML database and content component management system (called "Docato"). It was so quiet that it almost seemed apocryphal; after all there was no matching press release on either companies' site. Yes, it happened and the acquisition is complete. At first glance, it seemed unusual. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 5-Aug-2007
EMC|Documentum's long awaited "D6" was officially announced last week -- though of course it has actually been announced by the firm many times this year at different conferences. Although this official release fills in some of the blanks, there are few surprises. That's not to say this is not a significant event for the sometime market leader - it's a very big event for them - only in the past what Documentum did was a signal for all to follow. The tide has turned somewhat, and Documentum under the ownership of EMC finds itself as much a follower as a leader these days. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 26-Jul-2007
Just a year or two ago, a major upgrade to the Documentum ECM platform would have been dominant news in the industry, but things change, and quickly. D6, the latest version of EMC|Documentum's flagship platform, is undertaking a gradual roll-out through Q3 2007 to muted fanfare. EMC and its investors have high expectations for this new version, as the Documentum division of the company has shown only modest growth of 5% in the past year, lower than most competitors. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-Jul-2007
Today EMC announced it is to acquire XHive the Netherlands-based, XML-focused content management vendor. XHive has carved out a niche for itself ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Jul-2007
This year's big DIA (Drug Information Association) conference in Atlanta concluded with something of a shock for traditional ECM vendors. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-May-2007
Transactional document management (high-volume throughput of relatively static documents) has long been dominated by IBM and FileNet. EMC today announced that it too wants to compete in this lucrative market. Hence as part of its forthcoming Documentum D6 release, they have announced "TCM" (Transactional Content Management). ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-May-2007
How many good people can you lose before things start to suffer? The answer is usually not too many -- but in EMC's Documentum division we have now seen the departure of ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-Mar-2007
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