Have you ever heard of the Twin Paradox? It is a classic illustration of the consequences of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. One twin remains on Earth while the other leaves the planet and travels for a period time at close to the speed of light. When he returns his twin will have aged passed... Continue Reading →
Reveille – Addressing the Content Services Experience
The evolution of ECM from monolithic content management to cloud content services requires rethinking many touch points for both creating and consuming content. It is more important than ever for the architects and IT owners of these user experiences to understand what external and internal integrations could affect the performance, stability and security of the... Continue Reading →
Unstructured Data is Dead – Now A Question
What is the answer to the ultimate question of life the universe and everything. 42 of course. Anyone who has read (or seen) Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy knows this. After finding this answer the ancient alien race then had to build a machine to run billions of years to determine something more important.... Continue Reading →
OneDrive is Coming For You
Every so often, an up and coming software company will announce a new partnership with Microsoft adorned with a great deal of optimism. I cringe every time. These are not agreements made with the best interests of everyone in mind. Someone is eventually going to lose, and it will not be Microsoft. To be fair... Continue Reading →
How AI Will Kill Unstructured Content
There are a plethora of marketing videos and analyst’s posts about new AI product's popping up everyday. While products could be evaluated ad nauseam, what I would like to focus on is what I think is the most interesting implication that this wave of affordable Enterprise AI suggests. The death of unstructured content. First some... Continue Reading →
Roadmaps – The Ugly Truth
Every one has one question in mind when they ask me about the OpenText acquisition of ECD (Documentum). What about the roadmap? It is the wrong question. Our entire industry is addicted to selling the roadmap. Here is something you won’t hear anywhere else. You can’t actually buy one. No one ever reads the lawyer slide.... Continue Reading →
The Man With One RedBox
This is how the movie might start. Average Joe computer guy installs a new personal drive on his home network and discovers it is completely full. Terabytes of first run films, mini-series and TV shows. This can’t be legal. Nobody owns 5500 titles. Keep them or delete them. That is the question. A short amount... Continue Reading →
Trello (maybe) Takes an Arrow to the Knee
I hated Trello. Maybe that's too strong. I was genuinely annoyed by it. It just didn't seem to do what I needed it to do. Nevertheless I was forced into adopting it by departmental mandate. This adoption problem though was not with Trello. The problem was with me. I approached the service as a former developer... Continue Reading →
Rogue One and Data Management – A Galactic Problem
This is the most unapologetically nerdy post I have ever written. It also might contain what some consider spoilers of the new Star Wars movie, Rogue One. If you care then stop now. If you work in technology in general and content management specifically and don’t care about anything Star Wars you have other issues... Continue Reading →
ECM, AI and The Knowledge Worker
A few random thoughts to finish the week. In between bad movies on the plane I was thinking about how content management needs to evolve. The irony well described in the The Innovator's Dilemma is that the very innovations we used to drive change and create our business become mired in habit and dogma. We use... Continue Reading →
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