The Amazon Appstore and the Tale of Two Tablets April 4, 2011
Posted by Marko Sillanpää in Technology.Tags: Amazon Appstore, Android, Android Market, AppsLib, iPad, kyros, tablet
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Over the years I’ve come up with odd projects for myself. It started during my first retirement when I got into astronomy and very quickly astrophotography. Incredible astrophotographical images come from both skill and equipment and I was fortunate to learn from some really great amateurs. But I decided to take my own path, to see what’s the best images that I could develop using the smallest investment. Instead of using dedicated astronomical imaging equipment I used consumer digital cameras and webcams. I quickly found I enjoyed the challenge. So now with my iPad an integral part of my life, I thought it was time to see what I could do with an inexpensive Android platform. So while making a prediction that tablet computers will change the way we work with computers may be a me too, I have a new tipping point.
Watson, Go Away. We don’t need you. March 17, 2011
Posted by Marko Sillanpää in Content Analytics, Content Management, Technology.Tags: Content Analytics, Content Management, ECM, Watson
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If there’s one thing I hate more than “Barney” press releases, it’s technology PR stunts. Most recently to the top of my list is IBM’s Watson. I’ve heard about Watson’s capabilities and possibilities from so many different people both inside and outside technology. Each not realizing what it is, a technology daredevil. I remember TV’s “Fall Guy” saying a daredevil needs to make something work once. I’ve had a few people proclaiming it’s validity to ECM, but after seeing an article from American Medical News Fresh from “Jeopardy!” Victory , Watson to take on health care”, I decided it was time to speak up.
Killing Zombies With xDB October 28, 2010
Posted by Lee Dallas in Documentum, Technology.Tags: Application retirement, Documentum, ECM, EMC Corporation, Master Data Management, xDB
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Zombies are taking over your IT department. Not the shuffling flesh-eating kind. Something far worse. Zombie applications. They look like their alive but they are not. They used to be living breathing systems but now they are the undead of your application portfolios.
Every IT department has a list as long as your arm of applications that are no longer used but can’t be deleted because they contain data that has to be retained. They spin there on your disks taking up space and eating the brains of the developers maintaining them. These applications are a drain on time, attention,capacity and other scarce IT resource but there is a way to kill them. Application decommissioning with xDB. (warning – shameless plug for EMC stuff follows)
Are You Content With Content? October 12, 2010
Posted by Lee Dallas in Content Management, ECM, Technology.Tags: content, Content Management, ECM, Knowledge Management, semantic web
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Nobody got anywhere in the world simply by being content.
- Louis L’Amour
This was the Google quote of the day and as proof that I have been doing this job too long, in my head I put the emphasis on the wrong syllable. I read it con’-tent instead of con-tent’.
This made me wonder if I am getting anywhere with this? Am I con-tent’ with con’-tent. Or better yet can simply having content get you anywhere in the world. (more…)
The Adobe Microsoft Rumor’s Bad Aftertaste October 9, 2010
Posted by Lee Dallas in Technology.Tags: acquisition, adobe, Microsoft
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Adobe and Microsoft – This is one of those rumors that make my skin crawl. While I happily use technology from both I have very different opinions of the two organizations and their relative impact on my life. I can’t help but think that Microsoft will ruin the sweet Adobe experience. (more…)
Five I’s That Change the World August 6, 2010
Posted by Lee Dallas in Content Management, Technology.Tags: change, Google Wave, innovation
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Warning – the following is far more philosophical than technical so if you find it annoying remember you were warned…
We have developed a hyper-analytical mindset when it comes to change. This is learned behavior because the older and larger an organzation becomes the more management penalizes failure to the degree that we want 100% assurance of success before attempting change. We then marvel when young, new startups unencumbered by fear and cynicism race past established and essentially well run businesses. See Pie’s latest book review for a broader discussion.
Google announced the demise of their much touted Wave Email killer. Interestingly there was far more buzz on twitter and elsewhere that it was dead than there has been for the last year while it was alive. While some praised the move one of the most interesting comments I saw was an observation that the death of Google Wave was the result of innovation running ahead of an understanding of what the customers would do with the product.
This statement could not be more wrong and it is this type of thinking that stagnates technologies and organizations alike. Businesses must innovate – even when they don’t or can’t know what the outcome will be.
I have written before that only crazy people change things and I still believe it. Still it is good once in a while to ponder how real, substantive progress occurs in business and elsewhere. (more…)
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
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…)
ECM, So Easy Even a COBOL Programmer Can Do It July 27, 2009
Posted by Marko Sillanpää in Content Management, Documentum, ECM, Technology.Tags: Alfresco, CMIS, Documentum, Oracle
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I’ve been in a lot of meetings recently where I’ve found myself in a conundrum. As you’ve seen from a lot of my posts I proclaim that content management is an easy thing to understand. I really do believe that it’s true. But then I’m confronted with developers that want to build their own content management functionality. (You won’t see me calling it “platform”.) What’s up with that. Content management is EASY, but not that easy to build.
Let me explain it this way. If you wanted to travel from east coast to the Pacific Ocean, you have several ways to do it. One of those is following in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark and blaze your own trail. But is it the first choice? Why not follow an existing path?
Lost Knowledge – DM Partner’s Essence June 4, 2009
Posted by Marko Sillanpää in Content Management, Technology, Translation.Tags: Content Management, Translation
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I had the incredible fortune last month to find myself in the hearts of two very different ancient civilizations. I hinted in a previous article to my trip to Acropolis of Athens, the very birth place of Western Thought. A planned trip with all the expected turns and a few surprises. My second journey found me climbing the 3rd largest pyramid in the world at Teotihucan, outside Mexico City. An unplanned trip that even with some quick research would shake the foundations of my global knowledge.
I had planned to write about Western Thought and it’s ties to content management today, but as I walked in the footprints left so many years ago I realized that the current path often leaves behind many things only to be relearned. It is with this in mind that I’d like to go back in the history of content management and shine a light on some technologies that have disappeared.
