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Apoorv Durga

New Digital Asset Management Maturity Model

Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-May-2012

I'm excited and proud to announce the new Digital Asset Management Maturity Model (DAM3). Its a collaborative effort between ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

FT.com bets on HTML5 in lieu of native apps

Added By Apoorv Durga on 3-May-2012

The esteemed Financial Times is ready to pull the plug on its iOS native apps and instead replace them with an HTML5-based app.

Reportedly, the so called "Apple Tax" -- whereby developers pay 30% of revenues to Apple -- along with lack of access to customer data, are the main reasons prompting FT.com to follow others ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Rave Becomes a New Apache Portal Project

Added By Apoorv Durga on 5-Apr-2012

About a year back, when Apache Rave was announced, I had mentioned in my blog that It will be a while before Rave reaches a stage where customers can actually benefit from it. Now Rave has graduated to become an Apache top-level project. That itself is an achievement and congratulations are in order to the team supporting Rave. But is Rave anywhere closer to realizing its promise, and is it good enough today for you to consider it seriously for your Portal? ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

UK Government Cloudstore - not yet ready for prime time

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Feb-2012

The IT press here in the UK have heralded the remarkable launch of the government's G-Cloud Cloudstore. The timing was certainly impressive: In just four short weeks this online services directory and procurement application went from contract to launch.

Yet I remain a bit puzzled as to why the service has gone live at all, since ... Continue Reading

Kashyap Kompella

Digital marketing making inroads in India

Added By Kashyap Kompella on 20-Jan-2012

We recently attended the Click Asia Summit in Mumbai, a gathering for digital and social media marketers in the region. Here are the mantras and maxims, tidbits and trivia from the event ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

How accurate were our 2011 predictions?

Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Dec-2011

Like all analyst firms, every year-end we make predictions. I think we're fairly unique, though, in going back to see how our earlier predictions fared. Let's see whether our predictions for 2011 actually panned out. These were the twelve predictions we made in December, 2010 ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Different Ways for Building Mobile Apps

Added By Apoorv Durga on 4-Nov-2011

One of the arguments against building downloadable, native apps for mobile devices -- as opposed to browser-based web apps -- is that you sacrifice portability. Since you use platform-specific APIs, the argument goes, you will need to develop your app separately for each of the platforms you want to support. However, this argument is starting to get diluted, as emerging approaches can get the best of both worlds ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Mobile-Enabling Enterprise Applications

Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-Oct-2011

Once you decide to mobile-enable your enterprise information systems, the key question you need to address is whether to provide mobile access via Mobile Web (browser-based interfaces) or by offering downloadable applications ("apps").

This is a longstanding debate and proponents of both approaches will point to numerous benefits ... Continue Reading

Sanjeev Gupta

A big repository change for Nuxeo

Added By Sanjeev Gupta on 18-Aug-2011

I was recently updating the Nuxeo evaluation in our Document & Records Management Research, and the biggest news here is that the open source ECM vendor has replaced its repository layer ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Do we need more ECM Maturity Models?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Aug-2011

The research and consulting giant Gartner recently released a maturity model for ECM (Enterprise Content Management). Since its release (it's an overhaul of an earlier model), I have had a number of people point out to me the similarities between it and the open source maturity model for ECM that we contribute to, called ECM3, which is now a part of MIKE2.0 ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

More Emerging Standards for ECM

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Jul-2011

I was really happy last week to see that the long-awaited British Standards Institution Code of Practice (PAS 89) for ECM has been made available for public comment and review ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Best Practices for eForms

Added By Apoorv Durga on 7-Jul-2011

Content Acquisition (or Ingestion) is an important step in many business processes. A form is a common way to acquire content or information for these business processes. Forms are everywhere - you fill up a form to buy an insurance policy, apply for a visa or request a new home loan. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Moreq2010 a DOD5015 slayer?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-May-2011

Vendors claim DOD5015 compliance, but few organizations actually use the systems in a DOD5015 compliant manner. In short it is an over-arching standard that demands a particularly complex and cumbersome working methodology ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Key Considerations for Choosing the Right Storage Alternative

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

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

Apoorv Durga

A more skeptical look at new repository and portal initiatives

Added By Apoorv Durga on 2-Mar-2011

This seems to be a season of "proposals" by open source vendors to attach pieces of their code to a larger foundation.  It sounds promising, but the benefits for you the customer could remain far off ... 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

Apoorv Durga

What happens when a standard dies?

Added By Apoorv Durga on 14-Jan-2011

The tech blogosphere has been debating the apparent demise of the Java Content Repository (JCR) spec, especially after news that the open source Document Management firm Nuxeo dropped support for the standard. JCR's popularity and future are always debatable. However, it should focus you the customer on an important topic: what happens when a standard dies? ... Continue Reading

Apoorv Durga

Content Storage - Database or File System?

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

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 Apps are Dead. Long Live the Mobile Web

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 29-Nov-2010

Most recently, Wired Magazine managed to reach the zenith with the article "The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet." Even though that's been discussed to death on the web (dead itself), allow me to spoof their title one last time. Just to make an entirely different point: whereas the mobile web is alive and kicking -- it's becoming nearly impossible to create mobile apps. ... 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

Our ECM Maturity Model meets MIKE2.0

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Nov-2010

ECM3 is without a doubt the most successful maturity model for ECM, with downloads of the model passing the 5,000 mark recently ... Continue Reading

Matthew Clapp

Steve Wozniak and the Content Management Vanguard

Added By Matthew Clapp on 16-Nov-2010

I admit I was a little nervous when I took this new position evaluating web content management vendors for The Real Story Group. I was sure that I would find myself completely underwater and overwhelmed by advances in technology and process automation ... Continue Reading

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