In this article by Larry Dignan on the ZDNet blog, he analyses some practices by vendors that increasingly look like a return to the standard software licence and maintenance deals that enterprise software vendors are more associated with. In particular he notes multi-year lock-ins are often pushed by SaaS …
Continue reading »The Streaming Media conference moves to London on 14th-15th October this year. The event comprehensively covers all aspects of on-line video delivery technology and will benefit all those involved in delivering, supplying or analysing this increasingly important (and complicated) arena, including:
Following the first release and ratification of the CMIS standard, several commentators have begun looking to the future of CMIS and how the standard may develop to support additional functionality. Laurence Hart, writing in his Word of Pie blog outlines some limitations and opportunities for enhancements:
Collexis, a semantic technology and knowledge discovery software vendor has been acquired by STM publisher, Elsevier. The combination is an an obvious fit, Elsevier publish over two thousand specialist science journals and Collexis’s technology has been widely adopted by the academic market:
“Elsevier’s research performance, planning and funding …
Continue reading »Transcription specialist, 3Play Media, have announced the availability of a plug-in which links a transcript of the text of a video to spoken word footage. The timeline can be searched for occurrences of a given term either across a single video or an entire library:
“Installing an interactive …
Continue reading »In this StreamingMedia.com article, Tim Siglin discusses whether WebM and the VP8 codec are genuinely open source compliant and the possible risks via Google’s use of a ‘poison pill’ clause that attempts to indemnify them from the risk of patent infringement lawsuits:
“…we’ll look at what needs to happen …
Continue reading »Rob Beschizza gives his account of two recent visits to Library Of Congress departments to see what techniques and practices are used in this prestigious organisation to preserve their immense collections.
“The Library of Congress has nearly 150 million items in its collection, including at least 21 million books, 5 …
Continue reading »In this article, Dale Vile asks why, despite advances in technology and practice, some business data issues never seem to go away and postulates as to whether IT departments and solution vendors are too focused on chasing the lastest trends than solving the fundamentals.
“No one disputes the fact that …
Continue reading »Alice Ainsworth discusses the subject of planning content migration in this article. She describes the process as “dull but essential” – and few would argue over that. A series of 5 steps are outlined to help the reader understand the process and plan for it effectively:
Leala Abbott explains the difference between DAM, CMS and Collections Management in this article and makes the observation that there are a lot of grey areas between the two but the fundamental issue is to understand your real needs:
“I think about 90% of people don’t really understand the …
Continue reading »Oracle recently announced the launch of Oracle ECM Suite 11g. Unlike other enterprise vendors, Oracle have not ditched the ‘C’ word (as in “content”) for “case management” or other terminology in an effort to distance themselves from SharePoint and other commodity and open source offerings. The press release does …
Continue reading »In this post, Phil Simon explains the significance of Master Data Management (MDM), the process of assigning reference data that can be used to correlate and aggregate information across multiple enterprises repositories:
“Many large organizations have long been hamstrung by redundant or mismatched data sitting in silos, making …
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