When I heard that Mark Lewis was going to be presenting the keynote at the EMC Federal Government Forum, I knew that I had to meet him. After seeing him at EMC World in Vegas this year, I was critical of Mark. I was confused because the impression from watching him speak did not match with what I heard from the people working at EMC.
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Documentum and ECM…A Career or a Job?
After spending a busy day at the EMC Federal Forum, you might expect me to give some great write-up on what I saw. Well, that is coming. What I saw was only half of the picture. The most important part of this, or any event, is the networking. One topic that popped-up several times was the hiring of quality talent.
I’ve talked in the past about Building Documentum Talent. The problem is that sometimes, you don’t have the time to build people. It is a great problem to have, but it is still a problem. To solve the problem, the search goes out to find and hire quality people. Recently, I’ve been fighting a growing problem…people that only want contract work.
D6.5 Release Information
According to Whitney Tidmarsh’s talk today, D6.5 is slated for the end of July. An official announcement should be coming next week.
What does this mean? It should be on the download site by the second week in August. The download site is run by a 3rd party, so sometimes it takes a bit to get everything updated.
If you work with your account rep, you can make sure that you get it on the actual release date.
Old Documentum Architecture Habits are Hard to Break
A while back, John Kominetz wrote a nice post on The Elephant and the Blind Man. I’ve been checking John out for a while and been looking for an excuse to link to his stuff for a while, but I always get sidetracked. Aside from his fun habit to reference Douglas Adams, he has been working with Documentum for a very long time. He has developed a healthy skepticism about the product.
In his post on the Elephant, John talks about the load of Junk DNA in Documentum. As the product has evolved over the last 15 years, things have been left behind and other things that worked, haven’t evolved. My recent post on the Audit Trail has led to a couple of posts addressing both of these aspects.
2008 EMC Federal Forum
This is probably short notice, but I wanted to let everyone know that I plan on being at the EMC Federal Forum on Tuesday, July 15th. It is a little event for those federal customers that couldn’t make it out to Las Vegas due to federal travel restrictions.
If you already attending or speaking at the forum, let me know and I’ll look out for you.
While I don’t plan on blogging this event like I did EMC World, I will be keeping my eyes and ears open for any fun news to share with everyone. I’m hoping to chat with a few speakers, including Mark Lewis, and get an update on the D6.5 release date.
Tips: Taming the Documentum Audit Trail
The Documentum Audit Trail. It is one of the un-tamed beasts in many Documentum deployments. The requirements for auditing often come into conflict with the reality of the out-of-the-box functionality. To makes things useful for the average user, organizations tend to set earlier than desired audit purges and/or severely restrict what they audit which can lead to important actions being overlooked.
On the other hand, keeping everything makes finding what you want an expensive proposition.
Enterprise 2.0 Versus Reality
I was reading a post from James on implementing some Social Networking tools within a large Enterprise, Even more untold perspectives on social networking within large enterprises. It was an interesting post as it reflected, from a different angle, an issue that I have had to deal with recently.
My basic challenge is simple. A company decided that they needed to consolidate their knowledge (their word) and implement ways to both expand and re-purpose their information. I’m thinking Enterprise 2.0=Knowledge Management. I’m thinking cool new technologies. I’m getting all excited.
Then during a requirements session I hear, What is a Wiki?
The ECM Community Meets Web 2.0
In the last month, two different social networking communities have popped-up in the ECM space. One is the new Information Zen community sponsored by AIIM. The other is The Content Management Connection created by George Dearing. There are lots of pros and cons, but lets keep it simple…
ECM, SOA, and Bees
I am glad that Billy responded to my earlier post critiquing his article for AIIM. I meant it to be constructive, and I wanted it to lead to further discussion. It was a difficult post for me to write because I respect Billy and didn’t want to alienate him. It seems he gave me the benefit of the doubt, at least in print, and for that Billy, I thank you.
The funny thing was that when I read the name of his post, Poking the Bee Hive, I was watching a Dr Who episode featuring a giant wasp. Weird stuff.
I’m going to bypass the editorial stuff discussion for the most part. That is a matter of opinion and Billy had a co-author and editorial staff to answer to when writing the article. Like Billy, I want to focus on the intersection of Enterprise 2.0, SOA, and ECM. That is the meat of his article and the part that can actually lead to greater understanding on everyone’s part.
So while I wait for Billy to start his side of the discussion, I will poke the bee’s nest some more.
Word of Pie 
