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 →
Who Is Left to be Next
Last week's Open Text and Vignette news gave us all a great deal to think about but now that this long awaited shoe has finally dropped we are left to wonder - who is left? Vignette had been on the ropes for so long it was only a matter of time but are any of the... Continue Reading →
Autonomy Enters ECM/WCM with Interwoven Acquisition
Just when I was getting bored watching this market - Interwoven announced today that they are being acquired by Autonomy. The mamoth search vendor driving consolidation in a slightly new direction. We've seen a number of acquisitions as ECM is incorporated into the portfolios of traditional hardware vendors.(IBM/FileNet, EMC/Documentum,HP/Tower) This is interesting because there have been many... Continue Reading →
Interwoven and Dallas Rule #12
James Murray, VP Interwoven Europe, in an interview with IT Week advocates (in his words) blowing up ECM because its confusing. Well, as Dallas Rule #12 says "If at first you don't succeed, redefine success." So - they are hardly a failure but maybe he's saying "We're not a mediocre ECM, we're a great WCM... Continue Reading →
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