I have a large number of posts to finish in my queue but this one can't wait. Having just returned from the info360 show in DC last week my mind is overwhelmed with the buzzwords and acronyms. Sadly over the weekend the debate over the accuracy, relevance and relative deceptive nature of ECM reared its... Continue Reading →
Watson, Go Away. We don’t need you.
If there’s one thing I hate more than “Barney” press releases, it’s technology PR stunts. Most recently to the top of my list is IBM’s Watson. I’ve heard about Watson’s capabilities and possibilities from so many different people both inside and outside technology. Each not realizing what it is, a technology daredevil. I remember TV’s... Continue Reading →
Weird Idea of the Day – What if RIM Bought OpenText
I was reading about the rumor that BlackBerry might soon support Android apps and I looked at my company provided Curve and started musing - what would I do if I were in RIM's shoes? The obvious problem is that Blackberry has lost its cool. It is now the phone of the stodgy midlife crisis... Continue Reading →
Is Box.net Collaborative Enough?
Box.net has announced a new round of funding that brought in close to $50mil USD. Watching some of the comments on twitter it was clear that some don't think they have a feature set that rises to the level of true collaboration. It reminds me of another argument not so long ago when industry experts... Continue Reading →
COE – Just another word for bottleneck
Experience in and out of them has taught me that Centers of Excellence are rarely if ever that - excellent. They are the most well intentioned of things at the beginning and often add value. The problem is the concept never really goes away on its own once in place. COE's are more often than... Continue Reading →
OpenText Fills Another Bubble With Metastorm
OpenText announced the acquisition of BPM pure play Metastorm. Much like the StreamServe acquisition from late last year this fills a gap in their overall business application portfolio. OpenText buying Metastorm is in some respects an acknowledgment of the weight non-document BPM integration now carries in enterprise architecture relative to the pull on ECM software... Continue Reading →
2011 ECM Prophesies and Trends by Lee Dallas
Seems everybody is writing predictive posts this year. I thought I would take it up a notch and elevate my musings to prophetic status. They won't be any more accurate but the search engines might bring me a new set of conspiratorial readers and make for more entertaining comments. Besides - 2012 is just around... Continue Reading →
Twas The Night Before Trial
Twas the night before trial and all through the office. Not a lawyer was stirring, not even the novice The papers were filed, all straight in their folders, The ones they had burned were down to a smolder Paralegals and analysts passed out in their cubes Their drawings and flipcharts all rolled up in tubes... Continue Reading →
WikiLeaks, Expectations and ECM
The soul of consulting is oversimplification. Making big scary problems appear so simple in their solution that decision makers will commit to taking on solving them. Hopefully with your services. Pondering the WikiLeaks fiasco it seems to me this is a classic opportunity for enterprise content management consulting and a case where requirements and expectations... Continue Reading →
Killing Zombies With xDB
Zombies are taking over your IT department. Not the shuffling flesh-eating kind. Something far worse. Zombie applications. They look like their alive but they are not. They used to be living breathing systems but now they are the undead of your application portfolios. Every IT department has a list as long as your arm of... Continue Reading →
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