As I discussed previously, AIIM teamed with Geoffrey Moore to map out the future of Content Management. I was interested enough to attend the webinar on the topic to see what additional details I could glean.
Here are my notes from the webinar. You can also download the presentation for details to blend with my notes [and my thoughts].
Well, I’m not. Of course I still have a few months before we all reconvene in the meeting of the minds in Vegas. It is time to start getting ready.
First, EMC is looking for feedback on how to make Momentum even better. You can take the survey in just a few minutes. Personally, I want to see more presentations from Clients and the Documentum/IIG Community-at-large.
While I am on the topic, if you are part of the same Momentum crowd, it is time to submit your presentation topics. The deadline is the end of December, so let’s get started!
Last year, some of the better sessions were topics that were submitted by people from outside the EMC ranks. They told real stories where Documentum software was part of the solution and not the point of the solution. It wasn’t about sales, it was about learning about how best to use Documentum so solve problems outside of the demo VMWare image.
A fan favorite at the last two Momentum conferences (US Session Notes) has been the “Better Together” presentation. The show has arrived in DC today for two showings from Andrew Chapman (EMC) and Jon Ludwig (Capgemini). I decided to catch the 9:30 showing and see what all the fuss was about (though I think I knew).
Going to take notes conference style. So usual disclaimers apply. I will invariably type something wrong, so I’ll take full blame. If it is italics inside of the notes, it represents my thoughts, not those of the presenters.
Last year I succumbed to the pressure of being one of the only bloggers to NOT have predictions for 2010. So on the last day of the year, I threw together a post with some predictions.
As a side effect, I have to evaluate them now. I am going to score them as either correct, incorrect, or partial (50%). The partial is for predictions that were correct in the causes, but the effects were off.
So, let’s dive into the juicy goodness.
I’m sitting here reflecting upon a very productive Gilbane Conference in Boston this week. It was good to talk to people and see what people were thinking about in the Content Management industry. Engagement, Search, and Social were big, overlapping themes in the conference.
I was at Gilbane in order present my view on the future of Content Management. I thought I would share the slides here and talk a little about the recent research on the same topic from AIIM.
So Gartner released the new Magic Quadrant last week.
Um…..
I’m a little torn here. It is an important piece of research and of value and all that, but…
Of course, it is full of useful/interesting facts, so let’s dive into it…[download a copy from Hyland Software.]
A couple of years ago, I attended a discussion on using SharePoint/MOSS 2007 for Web Content Management and wrote a well visited post, SP for WCM, The Movie. Well, as you may have noticed, Microsoft released a new version this year and they are starting to market it heavily with SharePoint Solutions for Internet Sites.
Well, this week I participated in the SharePoint Symposium 2010 as part of KM World. Specifically I was part of the panel discussing the question of whether or not you can use SharePoint for WCM.
I’ll give a simple answer at the bottom, but I’m going to share the thoughts and opinions that were shared by others and myself.
Momentum Europe, the 2010 edition in Lisbon, is this week. I can’t be there, mostly because I would have a hard time justifying the cost given how much work I do in Europe (which at last count was $0). I am a little jealous of Lee Smith getting to attend and present at the conference, so I will have to live a little through others.
Why am I sad to miss this? Well, there is the changes in three key leadership positions at IIG since EMC World:
This post has been a long time in coming. I’m not talking about the news that has triggered the actual writing of the post, just the themes of the post overall. They should be pretty clear shortly….
That said, let’s hit the headline, Mark Lewis is no longer the President of EMC’s IIG business unit, which is effectively Documentum. Rick Devenuti, formerly the COO, is effectively taking over the position.
Wow. I’m happy, but you need to read on to understand that oversimplification of my mood.
Taking a break from talking about the economics and future of Content Management to look back at the reality we are facing today. For all of the need to start moving to the future, we all still have problems that have to be solved today.
One of my most challenging problems in Documentum is full-text search. While fine for the average system, FAST is a beast. It requires a large cage, is barely tamed, and takes a lot of work to train for larger tasks. When you invest in it, life is good, but it is an investment of time and effort. Like many, a chance to have a scalable, highly-available, reliable, and EASY full-text search as part of the system is something we’ve been missing in Documentum and most Content Management systems.
Well, that is changing. At the end of October, the new Documentum xPlore search engine is being released. Known during development as Documentum Search Server, xPlore promises to make life much easier for people.
Before I add any more details, the usual disclaimers apply. Anything in this post talking about things not released, including dates, is subject to change. If anything in this post fails to take reality, don’t yell at EMC, yell at me….and I’ll yell at EMC. 😉
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