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Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Open Text acquires Global360 - Good for Buyers?

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

The ECM skills shortage continues

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Capture plus workflow equals ECM?

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

Apoorv Durga

OpenText acquires mobility vendor weComm

Added By Apoorv Durga on 9-Mar-2011

OpenText continues its long acquisition spree. After acquiring Metastorm last month, it has now acquired UK-based weComm, a vendor in the mobility space ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

OpenText acquires BPM vendor Metastorm

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Feb-2011

I can hardly believe it (joking) but OpenText has acquired yet another technology company (first picked up by my colleague Irina yesterday). This time around it is US-based BPM (Business Process Management) firm Metastorm ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

2011 Document and Records Management Market Analysis

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 5-Jan-2011

Today we published our analysis of the 2011 Document & Records Management marketplace, including our "Cross-Check" review of buyer risk ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Oracle goes its own way with ECM Suite 11g

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Transactional Document Management - The core of ECM

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

How SharePoint swept Brazil

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 29-Sep-2010

I find traveling and speaking at industry events a huge opportunity to engage with people and get a feel for what is really going on in the broader user community. And in my third trip to Brazil for the ECMShow I can report with confidence that a whole lot is going on here ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Microsoft and the CMIS standard - What it means for you

Added By Apoorv Durga on 11-Aug-2010

In a new Advisory Briefing for our SharePoint and ECM subscribers, we evaluate how the CMIS connector targets different use cases where SharePoint needs to inter-operate or co-exist with other applications. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

ECM Price Lists: Why the Secrecy?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Jul-2010

Yesterday morning I was reading through Oracle's recently updated price list (yes my Monday mornings really are that exciting). I was thinking that I have long valued the fact that I can access simple, clear and open prices from major vendors like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. I might occasionally gasp at the prices listed ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

ECM co-existence and the vuvuzela

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Jun-2010

I'm in the middle of reviewing feedback for a number of ECM product evaluations that I'm presently updating.  The upgrade from minor version to minor version (1.7 to 1.8 etc) is usually heralded by loud marketing cries from the suppliers. Closer inspection though tends to reveal fixes and gaps plugged, rather than anything revolutionary ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

The case for Case Management - and Business Intelligence

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Open Text as a potential fit for heterogeneous environments

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 19-May-2010

We have been updating our evaluation of Open Text for ECM this week, and I was musing with my colleague Apoorv that although Open Text is one of the largest ECM vendors in the market ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Shared Drive Addiction

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

SAP to resell EMC Documentum

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 2-Feb-2010

Last week SAP announced that it would begin reselling EMC Documentum products to the Insurance and Finance industries. It's not a world-shaking announcement, but it is interesting for one simple reason: ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Oracle and SharePoint

Added By Tony Byrne on 26-Jan-2010

Among the various categories of content technologies that we evaluate, Oracle has been very quiet over the past year. For the past two years, actually, Oracle has urged customers and partners to look forward to the "11g" series of upgrades across its various application sets ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

SAP to resell Livelink

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Oct-2009

There is a some noise being made today about SAP's decision to become a reseller of Open Text's ECM products. Call me Mr Miserable, but I'm not sure that its really a game changer. SAP and Open Text have been involved in a long, torturous courtship, that so far has failed to result in a marriage ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Can ECM ever be Agile?

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

Tony Byrne

Should you buy Social Software from your ECM vendor?

Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Jul-2009

One of the questions at a "town hall" debate I facilitated at last month's Enterprise 2.0 conference addressed the topic of information lifecycle management for enterprise social spaces. Most of the attendees didn't seem to think it was necessary. I disagree ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

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

 

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