Seven Secrets of Successful Numbered Lists February 3, 2010
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Everywhere I look someone is tweeting – “5 Things to this” or “10 Ways to that” – I am as guilty as the rest but some of you just are not doing it right so I offer these “Seven Secrets”
- Start With One – Only geeks will get it if you start with zero.
- Increment One At A Time – Skipping a number doesn’t make you an over achiever. It means you’re a dork.
- Don’t Use Roman Numerals – In case you haven’t noticed Latin is a dead language
- Go up not down – Countdowns should be left the NASA and David Letterman
- Have more than 3 things to say – Less than three is a pair not a list
- If you run out of points, stop – Lists are scored on quality not quantity.
- Don’t Repeat Yourself To Reach “Cool” Numbers – Seven is not cooler than six. (yes it is – don’t tell six)
Feel free to add your own but please use bullets and leave the numbering to the professionals.
SAP to Sell EMC-Documentum, Finally! January 27, 2010
Posted by Marko Sillanpää in Content Management, Documentum, ECM, EMC, SAP.Tags: Documentum, ECM, EMC, Open Text, SAP
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This week was EMC’s 1st Sales Kickoff for CM&A in five years. It was a great week with some interesting news. While one bit of news got a lion’s share of the attention it was our announcement with SAP that really grabbed mine. SAP has been around since the 70’s and with all that history you would think that Documentum would have worked with them. Well, after almost 20 years in existence, Documentum finally starts to work with SAP.
2010 Content Management Assumptions from Marko Sillanpaa December 17, 2009
Posted by Marko Sillanpää in Collaboration, Content Management, Documentum, IBM, Oracle, SharePoint, Technology.Tags: CCA, ceva, cloud, Documentum, ECM, filenet, mac, Open Text, SharePoint
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As the year comes to an end it’s time to look at the future. While many are looking to major predictions for next year, I thought I’d focus on the most obvious ones. These are the top five ECM assumptions that loom ahead in are day-to-day work lives 2010
2010 Content Management Predictions from Lee Dallas December 17, 2009
Posted by Lee Dallas in Content Management, Documentum.Tags: 2010 Predictions, Documentum, ECM, EMC, Open Text, SharePoint, WCM
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My dream job is being a pundit on a cable news network. Dress nice, spout opinions all day and no accountability. (not unlike an executive consultant) As it is though I have to work for a living and the closest I can get to that is making predictions about the content management market place for next year. If I am wrong I can always blame it on changing market conditions and if I am right I will credit my keen insight and supernatural precognitive abilities. Unfortunately my desire for continued gainful employment requires that I don’t really go into some specifics related to my own company. Not to worry – there are plenty of other vendors to talk about. (more…)
Witnessing the Birth of a CEVA Ecosystem December 2, 2009
Posted by Marko Sillanpää in Content Management, Documentum, ECM, EMC, SharePoint.Tags: CCA, ceva, Documentum, ECM, EMC, firstdoc, FirstPoint, Microsoft, NextDocs, SharePoint
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Those of you that have read my articles before know I’m big on CEVA’s. I think Content Enabled Vertical Applications (or if you now prefer Composite Content Applications) are the future for enterprise content management. I believe that ECM would gain stronger visibility and penetration in the enterprise by allowing and supporting the development of out-of-the box end solution. Yesterday’s CSC Trends Conference was a showing of just what can happen.
If Buying Cars Were Like Buying ECM December 1, 2009
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There was an infamous email years ago titled “If Microsoft Made Cars” – Very funny – it takes the mundane act of driving and highlights the ridiculous problems with computers we just learn to live with. Working with the buying, selling,installing and using of ECM I am frustrated that I have fallen into the trap of just accepting the insanity. If buying cars were like buying ECM shopping for a new ride might be like this…. (more…)
BMOC Turns Two November 30, 2009
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This month Big Men On Content celebrated its second birthday. There are a great many things I could highlight but I’ll just point out a few.
I wrote an post in February of 2008 wondering if my opinion of Sharepoint would change if it were on Oracle. This has proven to be the most viewed article on the site by almost two to one. Every day (and I mean EVERY DAY) some combination of the search terms “oracle + sharepoint” appear in the logs despite the fact we are heavily bent toward EMC related technology. This says far more about the ECM landscape than most of us are willing to admit.
Working with Marko on this blog was a experiment that on a personal level has been very successful. In case you hadn’t noticed we have opinions on just about everything. Consequently we have had many differences of opinion both in and out of the blogosphere but that’s exactly why we started this. There is one critical point that we agree on. Simply put content management is important. It is important to every business whether they realize it or not and we want to help those businesses be more successful with it.
We believe in honest opinions and don’t participate in marketing unless we really believe it. Hype and flag waving are everywhere but whatever messages you get here are our own take on things. This is sometimes a challenge considering where we work but I can honestly say that our employer encourages blogging and I have never felt pressured to go against this principle.
Thank you for reading and contributing to the discussions. It has been great fun but the most rewarding part is meeting other ECM afficianados from around the globe both virtually and IRL. We are looking forward to keeping this up for the foreseeable future and we welcome your suggestions so long as they are anatomically possible.
8 Dimensions for CMS Technical Evaluation November 3, 2009
Posted by Lee Dallas in Content Management, Documentum, ECM, EMC.Tags: CMS, ECM, WCM
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There are many places you can go to find information on the racking and stacking of CMS systems. Everyone has their preference and there is no shortage of experts who will evaluate your situation and conclude their favorite is the best for the job. Over the years I have developed a serious disdain for a common behavior among CMS buyers. All too often selections are made solely on the recommendations of the hired guns or by procurement weasels without genuine ownership of the technology. The end result is almost always a battered account manager, a frustrated implementation team and an exasperated user community running to the internet looking for a panacea they can buy without IT approval. The built in plausible deniability may save the career of a mediocre manager or two but the interests of the users are better served by taking the time to understand technological dimensions of content management. (more…)
Endeca Strengthens Position with SAP and Informatica October 30, 2009
Posted by Lee Dallas in Content Management.Tags: BI, Endeca, Informatica, SAP
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This week, privately held search application company Endeca announced they were taking the next step in their relationship with SAP by integrating their dashboard technology with SAP Business Objects. This will further promote use of their data visualtion technology within the Business Intelligence space. In February, 2008 the VC arm of SAP invested $15 m USD into Endeca and I wonder if this is one of the results. Endeca also announced an OEM arrangement with Infomatica to include that company’s data exchange technology in the Endeca offering. Clearly Endeca is making headway against similar search competitors like Autonomy who more recently have bought their way into the CM space by acquiring Interwoven. With strong aliances in the both the content and structured data integration and BI world Endeca is a company to watch for acquisition or further expansion into various areas of the content management market.
Kapow and StrikeIron – Affordable SOA October 28, 2009
Posted by Lee Dallas in SaaS, Technology.Tags: Kapow, Kapow Technologies, SaaS, StrikeIron, Web Data Services
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A couple of weeks ago Kapow Technologies and StrikeIron announced a new partnership to deliver web data services in a pay-as-you-go model. The promises of service oriented architecture are well known and broadly adopted, especially among large enterprise and government IT departments. I was able to sit in on a demo on the offering and thought it worthy of further discussion. An enormous amount of data remains locked behind legacy applications and retrofitting them to support RSS or other web services is often complicated , expensive and difficult to cost justify in these challenging economic times. Kapow’s solution offers a way to rapidly service enable applications that otherwise might never be accessible to modern tooling. (more…)
