Happy Father’s Day June 18, 2011
Posted by Lee Dallas in Personal Life.Tags: Fathers Day
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The following is a huge departure from our usual topics but every now an then it is important to write about things that really matter.
WCM On A Sunday – Complexity and Pointillism June 13, 2011
Posted by Lee Dallas in Content Management.Tags: ECM, Seurat, WCM
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Irina Guseva of The Real Story Group had me thinking last week about complexity and Web Content Management. Somehow the lead value proposition of most WCM pitches is never quite achieved. Everyone should easily be able to do whatever they want with no training and still have meaningful content on the web right? What we really want I think can be illustrated by the technique of French painter George Seurat. The master of pointillism was one of the earliest experimenters with using tiny dots of single color on canvas to produce vivid images. When we look at this image we seldom consider that the 2 by 3 meter canvas of the masterpiece A Sunday on La Grande Jatte took two years to produce. (more…)
Greatest Secret of IT Revealed May 20, 2011
Posted by Lee Dallas in Content Management, ECM, mobile content.Tags: Content Management, ECM (record label), Enterprise content management, Mobile content
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I am finally getting around to publishing a few posts from my info360 presentation in March where I was asked to speak again on Mobile Content Management. Hopefully by now everyone has at least admitted they need a mobile strategy so I thought I would address some of the trends overcoming what could be the greatest barrier to mobile content management initiatives – your own IT organization.
A few years ago there was a series of TV specials titled Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed – a delightfully campy set up where a masked magician breaks the code of silence and reveals how popular illusions are performed. Today in a similar vein I am breaking the IT code of political correctness and job preservation because there is a secret about your IT organization that you should know. This is however probably the worst kept secret – ever.
No Surprise, Iron Mountain Sells Records Management to Autonomy. May 17, 2011
Posted by Marko Sillanpää in Acquisitions, Records Management.Tags: Autonomy, ECM, Iron Mountain, Mimosa, Records Management
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Some may have been surprised to see Iron Mountain selling it’s digital assets (read source code) for records management to Autonomy. But not if you were looking at the big picture it’s not a surprise. Well really it’s only the price tag that was a surprise. For what Iron Mountain bought Mimosa last year for $112 million and their Accutrac Software acquisition back in 2007 they just got $380 Million or a 300% return in one year. We’ve been pointing out that Autonomy has a billion dollar war chest, well $700 million now.
Why Re-Branding Makes Us Crazy May 2, 2011
Posted by Lee Dallas in Content Management.Tags: Documentum, ECM, EMC Corporation, filenet, IBM, Open Text Corporation
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Lubor Ptacek wrote and excellent piece today on the different approaches to branding strategy and why it sometimes makes sense to re-brand after an acquisition. I agree with everything he said and it is so reasonable it makes you wonder – why would there be so much angst when it happens. In my experience, negative reaction to post acquisition re-branding often comes from a loss of something personal rather than any real business reason. (more…)
SpringCM extends ECM in the Cloud to Include Case April 25, 2011
Posted by Marko Sillanpää in Case Management, cloud, Content Management.Tags: box.net, SpringCM
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There’s been a lot of attention to content management cloud strategies these days but most of what is there today is really just file sharing. Some, like Box.net, have taken this a further by adding tasks and versioning. But really that’s a little piece of library services. I was pleasantly surprised to see that at least one vendor, SpringCM, has gone beyond basic library services and has been bringing full enterprise content management to the cloud environment. And last week SpringCM announced that in addition to standard content management they are bringing case management to the cloud too.
