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Blog posts about Information Architecture

Apoorv Durga

Key Decisions to Make When You Decide to Go Mobile

Added By Apoorv Durga on 13-Dec-2011

At such time you decide you need a mobile presence for your corporate website or for an enterprise application, you'll face some key decision points, the outcome of which will define how you execute on a mobile strategy ... Continue Reading

Stephanie Lemieux

New evaluation of taxonomy management tools

Added By Stephanie Lemieux on 16-Nov-2011

You the customer can choose from among several fully-featured taxonomy management tools, yet each vendor has tackled the problem of managing vocabularies from a different angle. So how do you figure out which one is right for your context? ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Alternatives for integrating content Into your portal

Added By Apoorv Durga on 3-Oct-2011

In most enterprises, content resides in disparate, heterogeneous systems, including (but not limited to) content management systems. Those who have invested in portal-type technologies have a reasonable expectation that this technology can integrate the content consumption experience, exposing content and related data from multiple repositories ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Is Search the New Portal?

Added By Apoorv Durga on 17-Jun-2011

Well, that's what some of the hype in the market would have you believe. Let's look at what's driving this. The last decade has seen continuous improvements to search technology. At least in theory, today's search engines can crawl more complex repositories, can handle many more documents, and run faster and more efficiently. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

SharePoint leadership starts with a SharePoint strategy

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

Apoorv Durga

Android Tablet or iPad

Added By Apoorv Durga on 8-Feb-2011

Google demonstrated Android 3.0 -- a.k.a., Honeycomb -- last week. Honeycomb is a version of their mobile operating system optimized for tablets. It works within a bigger form factor, and also packs in much more power to be able to run videos, games, and other applications better. But that's not the point of this post ... 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

Adriaan Bloem

Mobile and Social event in Utrecht

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 22-Sep-2010

On October 7th, the MobileMojo event in Utrecht (NL) will focus on mobile and social media. Those two areas touch on almost everything we cover, so I'm happy that both my colleague Theresa Regli and I will be attending ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

When 66KB really equals 4.12MB

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 1-Sep-2010

Just as Route 66 in the United States has taken on a mythical status, 66KB is begining to take on the same legendary status in my own little world of ECM ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Sitecore 6.3 is more Major than Minor

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 30-Aug-2010

Danish CMS vendor Sitecore released their new version 6.3 last month. For me, the immediate question always is: how much has changed? It's only a dot release, so it shouldn't be anything major, right? Well ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

What Exactly is IDOL, Anyway?

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Aug-2010

There's a lot of mysticism shrouding Autonomy's mega-search offering, "IDOL." Not in the least bit because every piece of software that is acquired by the vendor is either "plugged into," "powered by," or "integrated with" IDOL. Supposedly, ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Document Asset Management?

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

You probably see a variety of overlapping terms to describe the management of content.  One example is "assets" -- aren't all content items assets of one kind or another? ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Don't ogle search if you really want content management

Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Jul-2010

I'll agree with mega-vendor Autonomy on one key point: Search technology is really important. But is it so important that search functionality should dominate your choice in a content management system? ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Decoding Content Management jargon

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 1-Jul-2010

Now that we've built content management to reach into the clouds, have we been punished by a confusion of tongues? Sure, there are tangible differences between, say, a page-based or a component-based system. And some labels are rooted in their underlying technology. Still, there's a couple of archetypes we could at least attempt to label similarly ... 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

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

CMIS - An important standard for buyers of ECM

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 6-May-2010

CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Specification) has been ratified as a standard by OASIS. What is it and what does it mean to buyers and users of ECM and Document Management technology? ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Eyjafjallajokull's Cloud hanging over the Web

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 23-Apr-2010

I spent several days anxiously keeping track of the latest updates on the cloud hanging over Europe. It gave me plenty of time to ponder just how important on-line communications play a role in this nowadays. ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Enterprise search versus federated search

Added By Theresa Regli on 5-Apr-2010

A question often asked by people learning about search technology is the difference between enterprise and federated search. It is not the simplest question to answer ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

What is Content Management?

Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Feb-2010

There's a question that keeps popping up around our industry: "What is Enterprise Content Management?" ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Which is better for you - platforms or products

Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Feb-2010

Today we released a new advisory paper, "How the New Platforms vs. Products Debate Impacts Your Success." Subscribers to any of our EI Watch, SharePoint Watch, and CMS Watch research streams can ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

The value of the AS IS in Information Management Change

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Feb-2010

One of the founding principals of business process change is the concept of understanding and defining the current "As Is" situation, before analyzing it and then constructing an ideal "To Be" situation. ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Let us now praise metators

Added By Tony Byrne on 29-Jul-2009

Longtime information management guru Bob Boiko is a modest guy. You won't hear him blowing his own trumpet, so I will ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Are we reaching the limits of UI buildout?

Added By Kas Thomas on 28-Jul-2009

As you can imagine, in the course of covering more than 200 software products, my colleagues and I get to see and touch a lot of different user interfaces, and one thing we've all noticed lately is the trend toward larger and larger interfaces ... Continue Reading

 

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