I'll be speaking at the Mid-Atlantic EMC Content Management and Archiving User Group on September 29. The topic is Three Choices for Documentum and SharePoint Integration. Come to the session or at the Armedia table later and let me know what your impressions of new stuff, Wall Street or Brittany Spears' triumphant return. I encourage... Continue Reading →
CMIS – Be Careful What You Ask For
I just read Chuck Hollis' appraisal of the impact of the Content Management Interoperability Services. I followed a couple of links and there is so much commentary you would think Ron Paul just selected CMIS as his running mate. Despite Chuck's nifty acronym (that I will now use often) It strikes me that I've heard... Continue Reading →
Clearing Space for eRoom’s Replacement
In my copious free time I have been thinking about where people should go with their own eRooms and I refuse on religious grounds to advocate replacing it with SharePoint. eRoom has been a dandy tool for a long time but all good things must come to and end. Like many of you - I'm... Continue Reading →
What happens when clouds blow away
I hate to say I told you so. No I don't - I actually enjoy it. What I don't like is talking about bad news that cost people jobs and make businesses suffer needless losses. According to this account in NetworkWorld, customers of The Linkup have suffered enormous data loss and the company is shutting... Continue Reading →
Documentum Archeology – user_name
Two other bloggers (doquent and Rajendra ) have been pondering why it is that user_name was the foreign key for dm_user instead of the r_object_id of the user object. They are looking for a logical reason why you would do that, but unfortunately they are trying to interpret it with today's understanding and common design... Continue Reading →
Flex Charts and Documentum
A few weeks ago I wrote about my great experience with Flex Builder 3.0 and Documentum. I recently had a little fun so I thought I would share the experience. I wanted to throw a pie chart of some Documentum data on a portal and was able to get it done in under thirty minutes.... Continue Reading →
The ECM Architect’s Creed
A very wise young man asked the question - "Why even bother with wiki's in Documentum. Open source tools were there first and it's just not worth the trouble. " The implication also being that somehow backing into paying for something that is essentially free just doesn't make sense. It's at this point in the... Continue Reading →
Resurfacing Rumors – Cisco and EMC
I wish I could say I told you so - but I can't. It's not that the thought never crossed my mind. I never said it out loud. (Beetlejuice,Beetlejuice,Beetle... ) Possibly out of fear of what the impact could be. Possibly because there were too many other noisy deals to chat about. Rumors of a... Continue Reading →
League of Extraodinary Salesmen
I am not as enamored as Alan Pelz-Sharpe with the negotiating prowess of ECM sales reps. I rarely take issue with his commentary but in his recent post on ECM buying tips, Alan suggests customers should beware when going to the negotiating table against the superior abilities of big vendor account managers. I don't disagree... Continue Reading →
Adobe Out In the Open with Alfresco
When Marko posted his report card for the EMC Documentum OEM edition I thought it was a fair assessment of the offering. The fact that EMC has based it on the 5.5 release and not D6 was troubling though. Turns out the post was far more timely than we realized. Now that Adobe has announced... Continue Reading →
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