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• UK Government Cloudstore - not yet ready for prime time - 23-Feb-2012
• Matt Mullen joins our Analyst Team - 13-Feb-2012
• Move from EMC Documentum to Oracle WebCenter Content for Free? Not... - 9-Feb-2012
• The joy of mailroom automation - 9-Feb-2012
• WebSphere Portal, Coremedia or EMC Documentum? - 6-Feb-2012
• Are cloud-based file-sharing services too immature for the enterprise? - 26-Jan-2012
• File Encryption Compromises in the Cloud - 21-Jan-2012
• ECM Market Analysis Report 2012 - 19-Jan-2012
• Why Enterprise Search is not in the limelight - 18-Jan-2012
• EMC Documentum vs IBM FileNet vs Oracle WebCenter Content? - 21-Nov-2011
• Is Box.Net a threat to SharePoint? - 14-Nov-2011
• SharePoint exposes lack of information management commitment - 11-Nov-2011
• Oracle-Endeca, HP-Autonomy, and Coveo follow the customer - 7-Nov-2011
• Not coming clean about Enterprise Search - 26-Oct-2011
• Case Management and the Lexmark acquisition of BPM vendor Pallas Athena - 19-Oct-2011
• Enterprise Search London - talking HP and Autonomy... - 19-Oct-2011
• Oracle acquires Endeca - our first take.... - 18-Oct-2011
• From Vignette to Microsoft - Web Content Management Orthodoxy - 3-Oct-2011
• Microsoft SharePoint in 2011 - 2012: State of the Nation Webinar - 28-Sep-2011
• HP and Autonomy - a marriage made in hell? - 23-Sep-2011
• Understanding Autonomy's Family Tree - 9-Sep-2011
• Another look at the Autonomy IDOL OEM business - 29-Aug-2011
• HP plus Autonomy equals Buyers Beware - 19-Aug-2011
• Do we need more ECM Maturity Models? - 16-Aug-2011
• How to get yourself thrown off a technology selection list - 18-Jul-2011
• Open Text acquires Global360 - Good for Buyers? - 13-Jul-2011
• More Emerging Standards for ECM - 12-Jul-2011
• The ECM skills shortage continues - 28-Jun-2011
• Capture Software needs an RFP process too - 21-Jun-2011
• Capture plus workflow equals ECM? - 17-Jun-2011
• The technology buying process - vertical expertise - 27-May-2011
• Moreq2010 a DOD5015 slayer? - 23-May-2011
• Autonomy makes yet another acquisition - 16-May-2011
• Enterprise Search - the best and worst of times - 12-May-2011
• Enterprise Search Bloat - 15-Apr-2011
• Is SharePoint up to the challenge of Records Management? - 4-Apr-2011
• ECM - from search to analytics - 31-Mar-2011
• SharePoint 2010 and NKOTB - 30-Mar-2011
• Cloud on the rack - 8-Mar-2011
• Second Look at SharePoint as an ECM Platform - 7-Mar-2011
• SharePoint leadership starts with a SharePoint strategy - 25-Feb-2011
• DAM Webinar this week - 14-Feb-2011
• We are hiring in Sales, Marketing, and More - 4-Feb-2011
• OpenText acquires BPM vendor Metastorm - 3-Feb-2011
• ECM in Healthcare Today - 1-Feb-2011
• EMC-Documentum continues to anger with impromptu audits - 14-Jan-2011
• The high cost of Microsoft SharePoint - 10-Jan-2011
• 2011 Document and Records Management Market Analysis - 5-Jan-2011
• Oracle goes its own way with ECM Suite 11g - 28-Dec-2010
• Changes to Autonomy iManage WorkSite - 22-Dec-2010
• ECM to Cross the Chasm? - 15-Dec-2010
• Develop the Right Shortlist with an RFI - 13-Dec-2010
• SharePoint maturing into 2011? - 26-Nov-2010
• Transactional Document Management - The core of ECM - 24-Nov-2010
• Our ECM Maturity Model meets MIKE2.0 - 18-Nov-2010
• EMC Documentum Family Tree - 10-Nov-2010
• Mobile Content Webinar Wednesday - 9-Nov-2010
• Updated ECM evaluations - 5-Nov-2010
• Dev-Test-Live for your CMS too - 27-Oct-2010
• Why software vendors acquire others - 15-Oct-2010
• Should you be worried about Autonomy? - 14-Oct-2010
• How SharePoint swept Brazil - 29-Sep-2010
• The high cost of support - 23-Sep-2010
• Vamosa to stop going - 20-Sep-2010
• DAM Conference in New York next week - 15-Sep-2010
• Is an HP Governance Engine what the market really needs? - 13-Sep-2010
• What makes The Real Story Group different? - 9-Sep-2010
• ECM TALK - A New Podcast Series - 8-Sep-2010
• 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