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Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Oct-2011
This question is popping up pretty frequently among our advisory subscribers. It's a subtle question in some ways, but also laden with great import for both intranet/collaboration managers and public website marketers ... Continue Reading
Added By Jarrod Gingras on 12-Oct-2011
On the heels of the Microsoft event, the timing of the SharePoint Symposium being held in Washington DC in just three weeks (November 2-3, 2011) could not be better. ... Continue Reading
Added By Shawn Shell on 10-Oct-2011
While SharePoint's "cloud" ambitions started many years ago, the perfect storm of Azure (another major component of this year's SharePoint conference), Office365 and improved development tools have created the fertile environment for adoption. When Microsoft first announced cloud services like Business Productivity Online Suite and, specifically SharePoint Online, it was a way to stretch the existing SharePoint 2007 product, without the expectation of being truly successful. It was, however, a good proving ground to enable Microsoft to learn about how SharePoint could play -- or not -- in a shared environment ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Oct-2011
Below is an excerpt from an interview I had with with Australian journalist David Walker. I thought it worth re-publishing here too. In a wide ranging chat undertaken whilst I was grumpy and jetlagged we discussed amongst other things Interwoven (now Autonomy soon to be HP), Vignette (OpenText), and Microsoft ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Sep-2011
Next Wednesday I will be hosting a free SharePoint-themed webinar. My intent is to look at SharePoint in 2011, its victories to date and its challenges ahead. ... 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 Apoorv Durga on 5-May-2011
In any content management system -- web content management (WCM), document management (DM) or digital asset management (DAM) -- how content gets persisted is an important aspect of the overall content lifecycle ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 11-Apr-2011
As I've noted on this blog many times before, a lot of Google Search Appliance's "features" are actually outside-of-the-box, rather than out-of-the-box. That can present an unpleasant surprise to many Google customers. But ironically, it's also a great advantage to anyone who wants to use ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 25-Feb-2011
On the 28th and 29th March, my colleague Jarrod Gingras and I will be hosting the inaugural SharePoint Strategy Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 16-Feb-2011
One of the questions I hear time and again is: "We're running SharePoint. Should we get a Google Appliance for search?" This was the case with SharePoint 2007, and it hasn't changed with 2010 ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-Jan-2011
Microsoft estimates that you the customer will spend a total of $6.2 Billion will spent on services related to SharePoint in 2011. According to my rough estimate, you can add $1.7 Billion in 2011 SharePoint license revenue on top. This for a product that many sales folk continue to tout as low cost, and sometimes even as free ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 5-Jan-2011
Business users want easy access to content and don't tend to care where it gets stored. However, the mechanics of storage have always been an important consideration for IT and System Admin folks ... 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 26-Nov-2010
Last week I helped my colleague Tony Byrne host the SharePoint Symposium in Washington DC. We ran many of sessions there and had a good turnout at each, hardly surprising of course as SharePoint remains a very hot topic ... 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 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
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
Added By Shawn Shell on 7-Jul-2010
While perhaps not the use case that Microsoft envisioned, it's a definite possibility: firms continuing to run their SharePoint 2007 applications and upgrading their desktops to Office 2010 ... Continue Reading
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
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 18-May-2010
Case in point: Today I chatted with the good people of Elkhart County, Indiana, about their experience of trying to consolidate all their document management needs to a single provider ... 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
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