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Alan Pelz-Sharpe
Alan Pelz-Sharpe is a Principal with The Real Story Group, covering and advising on ECM technologies and practices. He oversees all research on EIWatch.com, and focuses his own research in the areas of document management, enterprise collaboration, SharePoint, and e-mail archiving.
A native of the UK but a citizen of the world, Alan is a sought-after keynote speaker, and has delivered dozens of keynotes on six continents over the past decade. In addition to his "big picture" insight, his 20+ years in the document management industry and career start as a document manager himself enable him to incorporate both first-hand insight and seasoned experience into his research, consulting, and presentations.
Prior to joining The Real Story Group in 2006, Alan was a Strategist at Wipro and VP North America for the Industry Analyst firm Ovum. He has recently advised clients such as The US Federal Reserve, Chemical Abstract Service and Nokia on their change management and document management challenges.
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Alan's Recent Posts
- Hyland acquires Hershey Software - 1-Sep-2010
- When 66KB really equals 4.12MB - 1-Sep-2010
- Making sense of IT gibberish - 12-Aug-2010
- IBM Acquires Datacap - First Take - 10-Aug-2010
- Document Asset Management? - 9-Aug-2010
- Cri Du Coeur for Records Management - 4-Aug-2010
- Updated ECM evaluations released - 20-Jul-2010
- ECM Price Lists: Why the Secrecy? - 13-Jul-2010
- Justifying the cost of e-government - 9-Jul-2010
- ECM co-existence and the vuvuzela - 25-Jun-2010
- UK Budget Cuts and Public Sector IT - 22-Jun-2010
- ECM Awards in Africa and the UK - 21-Jun-2010
- Day 4 UK Roadshow - more SharePoint indifference - 17-Jun-2010
- Automating manual processes - is it always worth the effort? - 17-Jun-2010
- Day 3 UK Roadshow - Savvy Buyers - 16-Jun-2010
- Day 2 UK Roadshow - SharePoint skepticism - 15-Jun-2010
- UK roadshow diary Day One - dynamic publishing - 14-Jun-2010
- See you at the UK ECM Roadshow - 10-Jun-2010
- Autonomy buys CA Information Governance - A First Take - 9-Jun-2010
- No magic in eDiscovery - 9-Jun-2010
- The case for Case Management - and Business Intelligence - 8-Jun-2010
- Video: Meeting the System Integrator - 3-Jun-2010
- Multiple document silos - where to start? - 31-May-2010
- More ECM fun - with SharePointing - 27-May-2010
- The ECM salesperson and buyer -- part 1 - 24-May-2010
- Open Text as a potential fit for heterogeneous environments - 19-May-2010
- One document management vendor to rule them all? - 18-May-2010
- EMC Documentum for your Case Management? - 17-May-2010
- EMC rebrands CMA (aka ECM) to IIG - 12-May-2010
- Shared Drive Addiction - 11-May-2010
- ECM Family Trees, Part 3 - Autonomy - 10-May-2010
- CMIS - An important standard for buyers of ECM - 6-May-2010
- UK ECM Roadshow in June - 5-May-2010
- ECM Family Trees Part 2 - EMC Documentum - 19-Apr-2010
- ECM Market Analysis Released - 15-Apr-2010
- ECM Suite Family Trees, Part 1 - Open Text - 15-Apr-2010
- Records Management on the rise? - 12-Apr-2010
- Professional services for ECM - 9-Apr-2010
- Self Service Document Management - 8-Apr-2010
- Big vendors dominate the ECM and Document Management Market - 6-Apr-2010
- Oracle 11g Imaging and Process Management makes a 3-horse race - 25-Mar-2010
- ECM Marketplace trends talk at Info360-AIIM - 23-Mar-2010
- Holistic Information Management - 17-Mar-2010
- Evaluating vendor proposals - Kill your spreadsheets - 15-Mar-2010
- FileNet P8 on your iPhone - 24-Feb-2010
- Open Source is not always cheaper - 23-Feb-2010
- Google - unsuitable for the enterprise - 22-Feb-2010
- SAP, EMC, and Open Text - Who cares? - 22-Feb-2010
- Keeping it Real - 22-Feb-2010
- The value of the AS IS in Information Management Change - 21-Feb-2010
- ROI calculations are a joke - 8-Feb-2010
- An iPad for DM and RM? - 5-Feb-2010
- Vendor Tip: perform some basic research before disqualifying prospects - 3-Feb-2010
- SAP to resell EMC Documentum - 2-Feb-2010
- DAM moves - Tata acquires BT Mosaic - 18-Jan-2010
- Who remembers the Deep Web? - 15-Jan-2010
- It is Document Management from here on in... - 13-Jan-2010
- Three reasons to list CMIS in your Document Management RFP - 3-Dec-2009
- New Research on the ECM/Document Management Mid-Market - 23-Nov-2009
- Is the SharePoint bubble going to burst? - 11-Nov-2009
- ICANN Welcomes the World - 9-Nov-2009
- Record Managers and the threat of Cloud Computing - 19-Oct-2009
- SAP to resell Livelink - 14-Oct-2009
- Say hello at ARMA Expo - 12-Oct-2009
- CMIS already gaining traction? - 29-Sep-2009
- Dealing with the ECM skills shortage - 28-Sep-2009
- 2009 ECM Market Overview - 24-Sep-2009
- Tail wagging the ECM dog - 22-Sep-2009
- Making sense of ECM acronyms - 16-Sep-2009
- Can ECM ever be Agile? - 15-Sep-2009
- Shadow IT and ECM - 27-Aug-2009
- Adding structure to DAM and ECM - 27-Aug-2009
- Cost of storage for ECM & DAM: Part 2 - 24-Aug-2009
- Storage costs for ECM and DAM Systems - 13-Aug-2009
- ECM: Transforming the US Healthcare System? - 11-Aug-2009
- XAM your ECM RFP - 13-Jul-2009
- 2009 Enterprise Portals Market Overview - 25-Jun-2009
- Some lessons out of ECM vendor demo hell - 19-Jun-2009
- iManage and iPhone - something new, something old - 15-Jun-2009
- eXo merges with JBoss - a game changer? - 14-Jun-2009
- ECM thought of the week... - 12-Jun-2009
- Making sense of CMS Watch.... - 11-Jun-2009
- SOA and Records Management - 5-Jun-2009
- EMC Documentum opens the kimono - 4-Jun-2009
- Venture Capital likes XML - 28-May-2009
- Why Open Text bought Vignette -- the real story - 7-May-2009
- Objective plus Limehouse - 7-May-2009
- New Compliance Course - 9-Apr-2009
- XML Entering Into the Mainstream - 8-Apr-2009
- The ECM Maturity Model is a hit! - 26-Mar-2009
- Electronic Medical Records - No Slam Dunk - 11-Mar-2009
- Christening your ECM project - 10-Mar-2009
- Ingres, Alfresco and an ECM appliance - 25-Feb-2009
- New imaging course available - 25-Feb-2009
- EMC presages broader rise in software audits? - 23-Feb-2009
- Battling ECM and E2.0 - 20-Feb-2009
- The problem of original content in a digital context - 19-Feb-2009
- The Legal Dept rescues Records Managers? - 17-Feb-2009
- Picking the right supplier in a recession - 12-Feb-2009
- Enterprise Portal Education - 6-Feb-2009
- Documentum vs SharePoint - and the need for therapy - 2-Feb-2009
- CMS Watch is hiring... - 22-Jan-2009
- Autonomy acquires Interwoven - A first take - 22-Jan-2009
- The ROI on a Records Manager - 14-Jan-2009
- Pollyanna and the technology market - 13-Jan-2009
- HP and ECM - where to in 2009? - 12-Jan-2009
- Web Self Service - trend in 2009? - 10-Jan-2009
- EMC celebrates banner year by slashing jobs - 8-Jan-2009
- Who loves the incumbent vendor? - 18-Dec-2008
- Vibrancy in the ECM market - 16-Dec-2008
- Capture software to the fore - 24-Nov-2008
- Some early thoughts on CMIS - 24-Nov-2008
- A new definition of ECM? - 21-Nov-2008
- Interwoven in a bullish mood - 14-Nov-2008
- Scalable ECM? - 23-Oct-2008
- Autonomy, centralizing control of MOSS - 21-Oct-2008
- Considering Storage - 20-Oct-2008
- Google Postini, an announcement 'about nothing' - 17-Oct-2008
- Symantec acquires MessageLabs - 16-Oct-2008
- In praise of user group meetings - 16-Oct-2008
- SAP in the ECM shadows - 7-Oct-2008
- ECM - the toolset for downsizing - 7-Oct-2008
- Three continents, one SharePoint story - 25-Sep-2008
- The ECM Suites Report 2009 released today - 17-Sep-2008
- ECM via Utrecht, Mumbai, and Bangalore - 4-Sep-2008
- Open Text, acquisition indigestion? - 4-Sep-2008
- CMS Watch launches online ECM Technology Education - 3-Sep-2008
- SAP looks to India for ECM? - 29-Aug-2008
- A pat on the legal back for Interwoven - 28-Aug-2008
- Virtual SharePoint? - 28-Aug-2008
- CMS Watch consulting services - 12-Aug-2008
- Plenty of choice for buyers in ECM's mid-market - 12-Aug-2008
- Alfresco as a SharePoint alternative - 31-Jul-2008
- Apache in the Outer Hebrides - 31-Jul-2008
- Open Text - acquire or be acquired? - 4-Jul-2008
- ECM buying tips from the experts - 27-Jun-2008
- Legal ruling shakes up E-mail Archiving and Management Sector - 27-Jun-2008
- Fortiva acquired by Proofpoint - tread with caution - 27-Jun-2008
- More ECM acquisitions for Oracle - 23-Jun-2008
- The value of archiving and the limitations of e-discovery - 19-Jun-2008
- Adobe and Alfresco - 17-Jun-2008
- EAM focused on the wrong elements? - 13-Jun-2008
- The basics of selecting an E-mail Archiving and Management system - 6-Jun-2008
- CMS Watch Competition Winner - 2-Jun-2008
- ECM equals GED in Brazil - 2-Jun-2008
- Cloud Computing and Content Management - 30-May-2008
- Announcing the E-mail Archiving and Management Report - 20-May-2008
- Vendor criticism of CMS Watch - 16-May-2008
- Imaging - the most important element of ECM? - 9-May-2008
- Content Management - UK vs. US - 2-May-2008
- The E in ECM revisited - 21-Apr-2008
- Compliance is a dirty word - 15-Apr-2008
- Oracle enters the E-mail Archiving market - 14-Apr-2008
- Symantec to OEM Autonomy technology - 12-Apr-2008
- Readers' challenge - name our new chart! - 6-Apr-2008
- Oooh...an XML fight! - 4-Apr-2008
- ECM Technologies and Recession - 3-Apr-2008
- HP expands archiving, e-discovery, and compliance portfolio with acquisition of Tower Software - 31-Mar-2008
- April ECM Workshop in Rome - 25-Mar-2008
- Want your ECM problem fixed? - 29-Feb-2008
- Google Sites hardly a SharePoint killer -- but that's not the point - 28-Feb-2008
- Smart lawyers and ECM - 8-Feb-2008
- Independence and Industry Analysts - 1-Feb-2008
- Defining e-mail archiving versus e-mail management - 29-Jan-2008
- Debunking the Google Generation Myth - 29-Jan-2008
- The reality of content security - 24-Jan-2008
- Oracle acquires....Captovation? - 16-Jan-2008
- E-mail mayhem and nonsense - 10-Jan-2008
- Thoughts on EMC's acquisition of Document Sciences - 7-Jan-2008
- Worldwide ECM Events in 2008 - 7-Jan-2008
- The Joy of Buy-Side Conferences - 12-Dec-2007
- Backup is not Archiving - 29-Nov-2007
- What to make of Interwoven's SEC troubles? - 26-Nov-2007
- Oracle and ECM Middleware: more than just Billy, Stevie, and Lenny - 20-Nov-2007
- Search at a tipping point? - 8-Nov-2007
- ECM Methodologies - 25-Oct-2007
- Autonomy buys Meridio - 23-Oct-2007
- Tracking KMWorld - 22-Oct-2007
- The SaaS ECM dilemma - 15-Oct-2007
- WCM in Italy...and Europe - 12-Oct-2007
- Will ECM play in Peoria? - 7-Oct-2007
- Compliant storage and archiving - an oxymoron? - 3-Oct-2007
- The E in ECM - 1-Oct-2007
- De-mystifying the Gartner ECM Magic Quadrant - 28-Sep-2007
- Discussing ECM in London this October - 7-Sep-2007
- Uncle Sam cracks down on vendor selection abuse - 5-Sep-2007
- ECM in Malaysia - 4-Sep-2007
- Open Text keeps up with Legal sector - 22-Aug-2007
- Open Source ECM continues to grow - 19-Aug-2007
- Documentum formally announces D6 - 5-Aug-2007
- Measuring SharePoint Growth - 28-Jul-2007
- A new marketplace greets Documentum D6 - 26-Jul-2007
- EMC acquires Xhive - 20-Jul-2007
- Hyland Software acquired - 17-Jul-2007
- Oracle tackles files in the database, again - 12-Jul-2007
- Change methodologies and ECM - 5-Jul-2007
- Microsoft, Big ECM, and Big Pharma - 3-Jul-2007
- ECM and Integration - 2-Jul-2007
- The ECM - SOA divide - 26-Jun-2007
- True ECM for Salesforce.com? - 20-Jun-2007
- ECM in a box? - 17-Jun-2007
- ECM and BPR in 2007 - 31-May-2007
- Documentum announces Transactional Content Management - 22-May-2007
- Another departure at EMC-Documentum - 18-May-2007
- Another perspective on vendor demos - 17-May-2007
- When Search and ECM collide - 15-May-2007
- Compliance is not a big driver for ECM - 11-May-2007
- Looking beyond North America for your ECM vendor - 10-May-2007
- The E in big-time ECM means cutting costs, improving processes - 30-Apr-2007
- Thoughts on ECM as a service - 24-Apr-2007
- AIIM Expo and the ECM marketplace - 20-Apr-2007
- Salesforce.com as ECM vendor - 10-Apr-2007
- ECM rising? - 9-Apr-2007
- Considering smaller ECM vendors - 27-Mar-2007
- Subjective about the future of Objective - 11-Mar-2007
- ECM skills shortage - 6-Mar-2007
- Not dominating ECM - 19-Feb-2007
- IBM digests FileNet - 14-Feb-2007
- Top ten reasons why your ECM system runs slowly - 12-Jan-2007
- ECM Suite is an oxymoron - 5-Jan-2007
- NetApp dips toe in ECM waters - 31-Dec-2006
- ECM Marketplace - Blind leading the blind - 20-Dec-2006
- ECM and Enterprise Security - 14-Dec-2006
- Of magic quadrants and buyers' choices - 8-Dec-2006
- New e-discovery rules: New opportunity for better lifecycle management - 4-Dec-2006
- Sceptical about wikis in the Enterprise - 1-Dec-2006
- Documentum-EMC to offer embedded ECM - 20-Nov-2006
- Open Text releases Livelink 10 - 15-Nov-2006
- 80:20 releases free compliance software for SharePoint - 12-Sep-2005
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