A vendor you might not have run across, Optio, is being acquired by Bottomline Technologies. Optio is a competitor of Document Sciences which was acquired recently by EMC. No one seems to really know what to call this space. The best term is probably output management but looking at a Venn diagram of related products... Continue Reading →
Documentum – One year after Dave
Like a lot of folks, Dave DeWalt’s departure from EMC took me by surprise. I met Dave his first week on the job. At the time I was a technical partner manager with a passion for web content management. Dave asked me if I wanted to have a front seat to turning the company around,... Continue Reading →
EMC Acquires PI – What’s the Relevance?
Last Thursday, EMC announced it acquired PI Corp. Like many of you I had never heard about PI. But I really like naming conventions. Many of you missed the one from last week’s post that still makes me laugh. Alchemy was a science that failed in its attempt to turn ordinary metals into gold. PI... Continue Reading →
Documentum and Unnatural Acts
Johnny Gee's recent post on a Migration Dilema describes a client's reluctance to create a taxonomy when migrating content into Documentum. The argument from the client being, "if the old system didn't need it, why does Documentum?" I've heard this more than once myself and this kind of question is usually followed by a complaint... Continue Reading →
“Dear Documentum – Fix the Problem. A. Friend”
I was reading Johnny Gee’s BLOG and his article “Why can’t search be more like Google?” and I flashed back to a day in 1998 when several of us were invited to the Demo Room of Building 1 at Documentum. There the ten of us were introduced to Project Alchemy, which would later become the... Continue Reading →
Thoughts on SAP, Endeca and the Retail Marketplace (why not EMC?)
I commented some weeks ago on the possible role that EMC, Oracle and SAP might play in the search vendor acquisition game currently playing out. The question on the table in the thread was whether or not Autonomy would remain autonomous. Now we learn that SAP and Intel have invested a total of $15 million... Continue Reading →
XHive Brings Technical Publishing Vertical Solution to EMC
Imaging aside, I cannot point to any other product in the EMC portfolio that can be classified as a content creation tool other than the applet driven WebPublisher. Third party integrations may be on the price list but they are not necessarily part of the product line's strategic direction. I suppose you could make the... Continue Reading →
And the fun doesn’t stop there
EMC announced the acquisition of the NJ based BusinessEdge, calling it a New Information Management Consulting Practice. What I would like to know is, was there something wrong with their old one? Apparently so. Since the acquisition of Documentum, EMC has continued to shuffle the structure of it's various consulting offerings and those of us... Continue Reading →
EMC’s Newest Competitor EMC?
I love EMC newest competitor. After years of Documentum talking about the lack of direction and cannibalistic approach at IBM of Content Manager versus Lotus Notes and now FileNet, they are following suit. When EMC acquired Documentum, I imagined a world with a content management appliance. I had seen the value of Centera and thought... Continue Reading →
Is EMC Responding to Marklogic?
Ann Rockley has a post on CMSWatch re: the X-Hive acquisition. This makes me wonder if this is not really in response to two things - Success of products like MarkLogic and others in implementing pure XML repositories The complexity of emulating XML/XPath/xquery capability in old school architectures. Whether EMC folds X-Hive capabilities into its... Continue Reading →
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