Open Text and the ECM Flea Market

I was going through press releases and ran across an announcement about the Open Text earnings release later this week. Something caught my eye in the text that may be more relevant now than ever. Since the acquisition of Hummingbird in 2006, they have been using the tag line "Largest Independent Provider of ECM Software."... Continue Reading →

Finally – Content Management Predictions I can use

If you don't get this list from CMS Wire - go back to dropping fries for a living. I can already dispute one though. The secret to installing Documentum is not encoded in Renaissance paintings. You have to put every other letter of the WDK Development Guide in a matrix and figure it out from... Continue Reading →

SaaS Content Management – Don’t Forget the Prenup!

In a post from October Alan Pelz-Sharp lamented over the ECM SaaS Dilemma. While his points on technical integration issues are well founded - there is a dimension of the issue that API's and architecture don't directly address. In ages past I was responsible for evaluating content management solutions for a Fortune 50. In the... 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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