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Blog posts about Governance

Theresa Regli

Six Sigma for WCM

Added By Theresa Regli on 14-Dec-2011

Because I completed my university degree and started working full-time at the age of 20 (I wanted nothing more than to finish school and be out in the "real world"), I am not particularly impressed by copious degrees, professional certifications, or letters after a person's name ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

SharePoint exposes lack of information management commitment

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-Nov-2011

Last week we ran the SharePoint Symposium in Washington DC and kicked off the two-day event with a question to the audience.  What single word best describes "SharePoint" to you?  The preponderance of negative answers thrown out surprised us ... Continue Reading

Sanjeev Gupta

Helping you avoid the mistakes of others

Added By Sanjeev Gupta on 22-Aug-2011

Having worked with a broad spectrum of technology customers over the years, I've come to see broad common patterns in the mistakes that most large enterprises make -- be it during the technology selection process, RFI/RFP process, or project execution itself ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Who wants to apply Retention Policies to Tweets?

Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-Jul-2011

Some enterprises do indeed want to apply retention policies to employee tweets. EntropySoft, a content integration and migration vendor, has released a new connector for Twitter. EntropySoft already has a set of connectors that get OEM'ed into various packaged content and document management systems, many of which we cover in our evaluation reports ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

ECM in Healthcare Today

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 1-Feb-2011

There is no more challenging an environment for true ECM (Enterprise Content Management) than that of healthcare ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Agile web development - how do you get there?

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Jan-2011

Some of our subscriber inquiries have to do with accelerating their website and CMS deployment times. Having been burnt by waterfall-oriented development methodologies in the past, enterprises are now looking to "agile" development for answers. But already, many are becoming equally disillusioned with agile. Is it really just as problematic as waterfall? ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

In praise of TIMAF

Added By Tony Byrne on 29-Dec-2010

There's a great new book that begins with two questions:

  1. "What does an information manager do?"
  2. " How does she do it?"

And then proceeds to answer them both. ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Assessing Buyer Risk via Redesigned Cross-Checks

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 21-Dec-2010

Every product and technology solution provider inherently brings some amount of risk. When it comes to technology, change is inevitable and often a good thing, but also potentially a strong indicator of risk for new buyers of technology. For example ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

How did our 2010 predictions fare?

Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Nov-2010

As you may know, we make twelve predictions every year, and every year, we go back to try to assess our accuracy. So, let's see how we did with our 2010 predictions from last December ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Vamosa to stop going

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 20-Sep-2010

Vamosa means "let's go" in Spanish, and sadly the UK-based content migration technology firm Vamosa is indeed going...away ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Cri Du Coeur for Records Management

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

David Hobbs

Subsites - up front vs. ongoing costs

Added By David Hobbs on 2-Aug-2010

Do you run or plan a site with hundreds or thousands of subsites? If so, you have many unique issues to deal with, including complex permissions, templating, taxonomy, and UI requirements ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

How to get the right vendors to respond to your RFP

Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Jul-2010

Many of our enterprise research customers are reporting an interesting trend: fewer responses to their RFPs (a.k.a., "tenders"). Even vendors they had at the top of their lists may decline to bid. This puzzles them ... Continue Reading

Shawn Shell

Does SharePoint Cause Information Management Problems?

Added By Shawn Shell on 1-Jul-2010

In a recent article in Computing regarding this subject, the author suggests that SharePoint is the cause of recent information management challenges within organizations adopting the platform ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Automating manual processes - is it always worth the effort?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Jun-2010

For IT professionals it is taken as a matter of faith that automation improves efficiency, that making paper based documents and processes electronic is, in and of itself, a default benefit. But experience in the real world paints a more mixed and problematic picture ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Autonomy buys CA Information Governance - A First Take

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Jun-2010

Autonomy today announced that it has acquired CA's (formerly Computer Associates) Information Governance assets. These consist primarily of two main products ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

No magic in eDiscovery

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Jun-2010

In the American corporate world, eDiscovery is the "pain du jour," as requests to find and turn over documents grow exponentially ... Continue Reading

Phil Kemelor

Google opt-out -- another blow to web analysts?

Added By Phil Kemelor on 7-Jun-2010

A few months ago, Google promised to make it easier for website visitors to opt out of tracking by sites that employ their free Google Analytics service. Their announced solution last week strikes me as a bit of grandstanding on one hand ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Multiple document silos - where to start?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 31-May-2010

Virtually every customer of ours manages multiple document repositories. The document volumes stored in these repositories can get enormous; even smaller organizations can produce millions of documents, while the largest run to billions ... 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

Tony Byrne

Ten reasons why governance is like sex

Added By Tony Byrne on 7-May-2010

At this week's J Boye conference in Philadelphia, I joined a panel reviewing some of the "hot topics" from the event. As you might expect at a gathering of web and intranet managers, the issue of governance kept recurring ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

How Do You Know When it's Time for a New Web CMS?

Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Apr-2010

It's an important question that deserves an unbiased answer. Please join me a free webinar on Tuesday, 11 May, to explore potential alternatives for your organization ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Cricket, Lies, and....Content Management

Added By Apoorv Durga on 28-Apr-2010

They say nothing unites us Indians more than Cricket. Mash that up with Bollywood, big money, politics, as well as sleaze, and you get the multi-billion dollar Indian Premier League (IPL) ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Don't get trapped in SharePoint 2010 Beta

Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Apr-2010

Microsoft has announced the "Release-to-Manufacturing" (i.e., final production) version of SharePoint 2010. We're still advising most customers to go-slow on SP2010 to allow ... Continue Reading

 

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