At EMC World, the OEM edition of Documentum was unveiled, Content Services OEM. The presentation showed that EMC understands that an OEM program is made up of the platform, support, and marketing. Unfortunately what they developed for CS didn't quite meet the standards that they themselves announced. But there are ways to work around their... Continue Reading →
Flex Builder or EMC Composer IDE for Magellan
I just finished up a little side project creating a custom Documentum UI with the Eclipse based FlexBuilder 3.0. I rarely code any more and this was my first opportunity to work with the technology. When learning new languages and techniques I find that I spend far less time these days with syntax than I... Continue Reading →
Is Documentum really talking Web2.0 or is it just Jive?
I was one of about 30 people to be fortunate enough to attend one of the more interesting sessions at EMC World for Documentum. Interesting in that it was all about implementing Web 2.0 solutions on top of the platform. Fortunate enough in that, for some reason, the session was scheduled for the last session... Continue Reading →
EMC World 2008 – Random Reflections
EMC World was exhausting but very productive and a good time was had by everyone I spoke to. By all accounts from the many postings I've read this has been far more informative and newsworthy than in recent years for CMA. As Marko pointed out, I was working the booth for the entire show with... Continue Reading →
EMC Documentum Will Not Go Quietly Into that Dark Night
The biggest surprise of EMC World so far was presented in the Tuesday keynote but for some reason the buzz wasn’t going around. I was asked last night if I had seen the Magellan demo but as I had only arrive that afternoon I had missed it. I also didn’t know that the keynotes were... Continue Reading →
The ROI on ECM – Estimating Storage
Lee and I were talking and one of the most common questions we hear from clients implementing or managing a content management system is how to calculate a return on their system. Companies end up spending hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars on a CMS system with no idea of how to track the... Continue Reading →
Open Text and License Revenue
I am amazed at how (at least in public) old time "Documentum" people continue to be dismissive of Open Text. I've written here before that it seemed that OT's acquisition strategy and close ties to Microsoft seemed at odds with a takeover bid but In case you haven't noticed, Open Text is making money. A... Continue Reading →
Virtualization and Software Cost
Chuck Hollis scares me. If you aren't a regular reader of his blog you're missing out. He has a deceptively disarming way of painting the picture of technoloy's future that makes you feel better about the coming apocalypse. Chuck just put out a series of great posts on The Changing Face of Information. He posts often on VMWare and... Continue Reading →
EMC Wants To Be Under Your Desk
EMC has been gobbling up companies like there is no tomorrow. On Monday they sweetened the offer to acquire Iomega and this one introduces something new to EMC. With the possible exception of hosted backup and storage services from Dantz and Mozy, EMC has stayed away from marketing it's wares directly to the home user.... Continue Reading →
See the Value in CEVAs
Two years ago Gartner coined a new acronym CEVA, Content Enabled Vertical Applications, and it created some buzz in the enterprise content management space. Now I get a little lost here and have to think about what a Vertical means in software terms. Imagitek, a proclaimed CEVA, offers case management with specializations in contracts and... Continue Reading →
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