Category: Enterprise Content Management

In the UK this week, the news has been dominated by the forthcoming referendum on Scottish independence where people in Scotland get to decide if they wish to become a self-governing nation state or remain united with England, Wales and Northern Ireland.  I gather from those who I talk to …

This month, CMSWire have been running various articles on whether there is still a need for DAM. The subject title is no doubt deliberately provocative and intended to get participating authors to think about the DAM in a bit more detail and challenge a few of the common assumptions …

On Fierce Content Management, Ron Miller speculates that Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is more of a name than a real solution:

“I’ve been thinking lately that no company can truly claim to be an enterprise content management vendor because there are so many types of content out there …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Nuxeo, have published an introduction to ECM as a series of whitepapers.  Their ContentGeeks.net site has an overview of part 1 of the paper:

“In this first part, we’ve tried to provide insight into what Enterprise Content Management really is—and not …

Brian Lincoln of DocuShare, writing on the Digital Landfill blog discusses 5 myths about the ROI that can be obtained from implementation of ECM systems.  He answers each of them with  very short single paragraph case study to illustrate how each of the points is false:

• Removing paper from business

John Mancini writing on The Digital Landfill blog is collecting a range of annoying ECM marketing jargon.  This is a follow up to his earlier coverage of 18 words or phrases that should be banned from marketing, sales, corporate communications featured in the book Content Rules by Ann Hadley and …

More evidence of Enterprise and Cloud vendors getting friendly is the recent partnership between Box.net and EMC announced yesterday at EMC world.  Given that Box.net recently managed to secure the services of former EMC CMO, Whitney Tidmarsh, this looks a lot like defensive manoeuvring on the part of EMC who …

ECM and DAM vendor, Nuxeo, have offered to contribute the Nuxeo Core to the Eclipse Foundation and it will become known as the Eclipse Enterprise Content Repository (if their proposal is accepted).  Eric Barroca, CEO of Nuxeo is quoted on the Nuxeo Press Release as follows:

“We …

In this Digital Landfill blog article, Brian Dirking discusses 8 points about integrating content with your enterprise processes:

• Differentiate based on the relative importance 0r value of content.
• Decide how to cross reference content in multiple systems (including intentional duplication).
• Siloed content presents a risk when users are forced

CMS Report features an A-Z listing of top tips for delivering and using Content Management solutions effectively.

“Whether you’re scanning files for historical reference, providing information access via a customer portal, or are in the midst of enterprise-wide process automation, there are standard steps you should take that will help …

Rob Gray (from Google’s Enterprise division) discusses the trade-off between user control and usability in this Enterprise 2.0 blog guest post:

“One of the biggest problems with “systems of control” such as most records management systems, is that they have been designed for records managers, not end users. The …

Jom Thumma, writing for CMSReport.com describes six tips for managing the organisational changes bought about by implementing ECM solutions:

• Assess change readiness
• Communicate the reasons for change
• Develop concrete plans
• Reveal how changes will affect employees
• Present a united front
• Manage resistance

“Change management planning revolves around a specific, …