Blog posts about Enterprise Content Management Suite 10gR3

IBM Acquires Datacap - First Take

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-Aug-2010

Today IBM announced the acquisition of Datacap. It was no surprise really as Big Blue has been talking for a while about enhancing their overall imaging offering, to better leverage advanced case management ... Continue Reading

Adobe To Acquire Day - First Take-ECM Perspective

Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Jul-2010

Adobe Systems today announced their intent to acquire Day Software. We've seen Adobe featuring in many Content Management RFPs and although they had some of the necessary pieces including Adobe Contribute and LiveCycle, they were never taken seriously as a Content Management player. An OEM deal with Alfresco a few years back though well intentioned didn't help much but this announcement will surely change the situation dramatically. ... Continue Reading

EMC Documentum for your Case Management?

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

EMC rebrands CMA (aka ECM) to IIG

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

It seems to be acronym soup week, and though we can all be guilty of cooking this particular recipe at times, EMC is becoming a master chef ... Continue Reading

ECM Suite Family Trees, Part 1 - Open Text

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

Google - unsuitable for the enterprise

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010

For years now Google has played fast and loose with information confidentiality and privacy issues. As if further proof were needed ... Continue Reading

Some lessons out of ECM vendor demo hell

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-Jun-2009

Self immolation is a rare, some may say mythical event. Yet in the world of content management it is more common than you might think ... Continue Reading

Making sense of CMS Watch....

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

Autonomy acquires Interwoven - A first take

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Jan-2009

Today Autonomy announced that they intend to buy Interwoven. ... Continue Reading

Vibrancy in the ECM market

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

The ECM Suites Report 2009 released today

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

CMIS - the new Lingua Franca of ECM?

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

SAP looks to India for ECM?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 29-Aug-2008

Is SAP slowly moving into the ECM space? ... Continue Reading

ECM buying tips from the experts

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 27-Jun-2008

This past week I had the pleasure of keynoting at the DocTrain event in Indianapolis (held at the truly magnificent Union Station venue), and also running a small session on "How to procure Content Technologies." ... Continue Reading

Legal ruling shakes up E-mail Archiving and Management Sector

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 27-Jun-2008

The whole issue of (E-mail Archiving and Management) EAM has come under the spotlight recently - triggered by ... Continue Reading

Imaging - the most important element of ECM?

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

Announcing The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008

Added By Theresa Regli on 7-May-2008

I'm thrilled to announce the launch of The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008 ... Continue Reading

Oracle enters the E-mail Archiving market

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Apr-2008

Oracle announced today that they were entering the archiving market with the release of "Universal Online Archive." UOA is an interesting entry to a market ... Continue Reading

What you can learn from IBM and SAP's legal imbroglios

Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Apr-2008

A couple recent news items find SAP and IBM both in a bit of legal hot water ... Continue Reading

Oracle acquires....Captovation?

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

ECM Suites Report 2008 Released

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 4-Dec-2007

Today we released the ECM Suites Report 2008, evaluating 32 Enterprise Content Management vendors. ... Continue Reading

Zealotry of the Apostate?

Added By Tony Byrne on 28-Nov-2007

At the Gilbane Conference keynote today, execs from ECM vendors Alfresco, Oracle, IBM, and Adobe focussed on -- perhaps inevitably -- Enterprise 2.0 ... Continue Reading

Oracle and ECM Middleware: more than just Billy, Stevie, and Lenny

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-Nov-2007

It's easy to get lost in the maelstrom that is Oracle OpenWorld. With over 45,000 visitors, it takes over San Francisco each year. Its "appreciation" parties are legendary ... Continue Reading

Oracle tackles files in the database, again

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Jul-2007

Today Oracle announced the latest upgrade to its flagship database: 11g. The announcement brooks great interest within the ECM community because ... Continue Reading