Opinions and discussion on content management by one of the biggest guys in the business. *Measured by weight not volume
I’ve recently taken a hard look at Box for Enterprise. The changes that I’ve seen develop over the last several years are very interesting and show why it has become a major player in the Content Services Platform market or what used to be called Enterprise Content Management (ECM). But the big story that keeps... Continue Reading →
On July 31, DocuSign announced that it was acquiring SpringCM for $220 million. I think a general “huh?” could be heard across the industry. What exactly does this mean? For the last few years I’ve been looking at the two markets, of ECM and CLM, and the confusion that exists between them. About DocuSign and... Continue Reading →
I got my start in software with a leading enterprise content management (ECM) software vendor and I learned the value of a solid partner network early on. Over the last 20 years I have been in the ECM industry working for various types of organizations and continue to embrace the value of partners in the... Continue Reading →
Looking at any traditional list of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendors one might think that the industry is rather small but you would be mistaken. I recently decided to complete a research project I started on the ECM vendor landscape. I’m not sure that I am actually done with the project, nor that it is... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
According to AIIM, most organizations have three or more repositories for their enterprise content, but the content in one repository rarely works together with content in another. In the off chance it does work together, it is usually through SharePoint with an enterprise content management (ECM) or a content services platform. Last year, the concept... Continue Reading →
Here are the Top Five articles on Big Men On Content for 2017 Turning the Page on Documentum Hyland OnBase with Lexmark Perceptive Software? Say What? Rogue One and Data Management – A Galactic Problem Thoughts on the Kofax Sale – Hyland and Others Predicting the Future of Documentum and EMC’s ECD We also had... Continue Reading →
Gartner announced earlier this year that enterprise content management (ECM) was dead and that the industry’s focus should shift toward content services instead. While this caused some intense debate, most still agree that ECM technology is a service—not a business solution. This change became more evident in Gartner's 2017 "Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platforms."... Continue Reading →
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