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Blog posts about Services Oriented Architecture

Apoorv Durga

Alfresco Version 4 is Buzzword Compliant

Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-Feb-2012

Last week open source document management vendor Alfresco released Version 4 of its (commercially-supported) enterprise edition package. As we've come to expect from Alfresco, it's long on buzzwords and interesting new directions, but a bit short on functional niceties and architectural continuity ... 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

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

Apoorv Durga

Alternatives for Building Portal-Like Applications

Added By Apoorv Durga on 3-May-2011

If you ask "What is a Portal" on twitter, you will likely get numerous replies depending on tweeples' point of view. For some, their Intranet is a Portal, while for others a public search engine is their Portal, and for still some others their own website is a Portal. Instead of ... 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

Apoorv Durga

Beware the WEM trap

Added By Apoorv Durga on 17-Aug-2010

You should be forewarned that in their quest for improving presentation management, vendors are soft-pedaling many core CMS concepts which haven't really seen a lot of innovation in recent times, and this, too, could impact your website visitor experience. ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

When infrastructure vendors use niche products for Enterprise 2.0

Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jun-2010

I participated in an interesting workshop at the 2.0 Council last week where one of the big debates was -- inevitably -- the tension between behemoth collaboration platforms (especially SharePoint) vs. point solutions for social computing ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Complementing Portals with Enterprise Mashups

Added By Apoorv Durga on 9-Apr-2010

Enterprise Mashups are becoming popular as a way to create new, dashboard style applications from existing, often disparate applications and data sources. ... 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

Social as a Service, not an Application

Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Mar-2010

I recently had the opportunity to publish in Information Management magazine some thoughts on collaboration and social computing architectures for larger enterprises ... 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

SOA and Records Management

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 5-Jun-2009

An announcement caught attention the other week, though I don't have much insight into the details yet. In short a new RM (Records Management) standard has emerged ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

EMC Documentum opens the kimono

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 4-Jun-2009

Earlier this week EMC announced that it was providing more extensive development support for Documentum. This is something we had to comment on, as in our various product evaluations we have long called out EMC Documentum for providing relatively poor support ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Google Wave: Tsunami or Wipe Out?

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 29-May-2009

Somewhat stealing the thunder of Microsoft's almost-released Bing search, Google presented a preview of Wave yesterday at the I/O Developer conference. So what kind of wave is this? ... Continue Reading

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