Last weekend Box CEO Aaron Levie tweeted "Disruption is the art of identifying which parts of the past are no longer relevant to the future, and exploiting that delta at all costs." To which I responded : "deliberate disruption is extraordinarily rare. So rare that I think you can capitalize on it but never plan for it... Continue Reading →
ECM Trends 2014 – We Don’t Need Big Content
A friendly reminder that all of the opinions expressed here are completely my own and not those of my employer's. I am late this year putting together my thoughts around trends for 2014 in ECM. To be frank many of the trends in ECM seem obvious with much already having been written about them. Everyone... Continue Reading →
ECM, “Reports of my death are premature.”
For a while I've seen the various posts of the death of ECM. What has happen is that "enterprise" has become an adjective rather than a noun. Often, as vendors, we think enterprise means a big deal size rather than a wide venture. Enterprise solutions have come to mean solutions to large problem encountered often... Continue Reading →
The Real Story Group release 2013 Content Technology Vendor (Subway) Maps
Gartner recently released their Digital Media Transit Map reminded me that I'd seen something this before for ECM. So I looked and found that Real Story Group (formerly CMS Wire) had also recently released their 2013 Content Technology Vendor Map. The Content Technology Vendor is an interesting graphical way to see all of the vendors within the... Continue Reading →
Understanding ECM Is About Dialect
One thing I’ve learned over 15 years in ECM is that there are characteristics in individual systems and solutions that often come to the level of idiosyncrasies. The problem is that too often people on opposite sides of the table can argue against the same side of a solution for hours without realizing that both... Continue Reading →
Trends in the Magic Quadrant
If you are looking for a guide to the “who’s who” of Enterprise Content Management, the Gartner Magic Quadrant is it. The vendors are measured on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Each vendor is plotted within a quadrant and categorized as either a; Niche Players, Visionaries, Challenger, or the coveted Leaders position. Recently... Continue Reading →
Will VACS be the End for ECM Platforms?
If we look back, ECM is a young space. It started back in 1998 at Documentum when they were the first vendor to look at both documents and web content together formally. Until then companies had either been documents (Documentum, FileNet, and OpenText) or web (Interwoven, Vignette, etc.). This transition was huge and really affected... Continue Reading →
ECM in 2013 – Winds of Change
I am looking forward to 2013 in the ECM market more than in the last five years. The thing that interests me more than anything else is change and this year promises to be anything but dull. The status quo is not just boring - it is dangerous. What follows are my thoughts on the major trends... Continue Reading →
2013 – Random Tech Predictions
In addition to the new year's ECM trend post I decided to write a separate list of random tech predictions for those with shorter attention spans. Some are serious. Some less so. You can decide which is which. Google Glass has people expecting advances in wearable computing. Add electronic vision correction to VR and now it... Continue Reading →
Autonomy & HP’s Autoimmune Response
As I reflect on last year and look to 2013 (post to follow) here are a few year end thoughts on how the HP/Autonomy mess plays out. Autonomy and HP both had gathered an interesting collection of acquisitions in the the content, records, web and portal space before this questionable buy One thing two decades... Continue Reading →
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