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.
Flinging Angry Birds at the Nokia House April 6, 2011
Posted by Marko Sillanpää in mobile content, Technology.Tags: Android, BlackBerry, Finland, iOS, mobile, Nokia, Rovio, widows mobile
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What Country is the home of the largest manufacturer of mobile phones? A clue, the same country that is home to the company with three of the top ten paid apps on iTunes. Give up? Finland. Yes I said Finland. As I like to say, “Nokia is a river in Finland not a company in Japan.” So while planning a personal trip to Finland it gets me thinking how can there be such a strong concentration in mobile technology yet very few people know it. Will this hidden location of knowledge lead to a Machu Picchu type disappearance, much like the lost fact that Belgium once was the global lead in computational linguistic technology.
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.
Writing a Blog and Keeping Our Job April 2, 2011
Posted by Lee Dallas in Content Management.Tags: Blogging, Business, Documentum, EMC, EMC Corporation
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One of the highest compliments we get is when people acknowledge the relative degree of neutrality we maintain and still manage to keep our jobs at EMC. It is not an easy thing to do. I have had this conversation so often lately I thought I would share some things about the blog that help us keep on track and the informal guidelines we try to follow. (more…)
Woodland Creatures and The Cloud April 1, 2011
Posted by Lee Dallas in Content Management.Tags: cloud
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I had a dream. And in this dream I was wandering through the forest of enterprise software. I come upon the information super highway cutting through the thick underbrush of marketing and thorny requirements. The lanes are littered with the bodies of vendors that didn’t make it across when change came barreling down on them. (more…)
