I had planned to start running all of my “Tips” posts in the EMC Developer Network, but I wanted to editorialize a little in this Tip, so I’ve decided to throw it up here. This issue arose when I installed a new repository into an existing environment. It is a documented issue, though the Support guys need to read that documentation a little more closely.
EMC World 2009, The Case of the Incredibly Shrinking Momentum
This year was the second year where I “felt” that there were less Documentum sessions than the older traditional Momentum conferences. This is strange as there are more components to Content Management and Archiving, Documentum, than there were even two years ago. Luckily, I have the conference handbooks for the last three EMC World conferences and I can check numbers while I watch a new repository build.
The EMC World 2007 conference, while under EMC World’s wing, still felt like the session count wasn’t that far off. I remember a few grumblings, but nothing documented, so I’ll just use that as a baseline with the understanding that the previous year was at least as good. I believe 2007 was the year that the long-standing pre-conference tutorials vanished, so calling it even is a throwing EMC a bone.
Let’s See Some Numbers
Review: Alfresco Developer Guide [Part I]
Okay, I know what your thinking, an Alfresco book review? Where did he find the time and what about Documentum? It is simple, I haven’t found the time. Not yet at least. This is going to be a multi-post review. More on that in a few paragraphs.
As for Documentum, it isn’t going anywhere. Regardless of what I might say, especially when I critique EMC World, I like the product more than ever. However, as Tony Byrne of CMS Watch likes to say, Every ECM product is perfect for at least one organization [paraphrasing]. For some, the answer isn’t a traditional ECM vendor or SharePoint. For some, the answer is Open Source. It may be the right answer based on the organizations infrastructure or it is just a strategy decided upon by the CIO.
CMIS, Beauty Is More Than Skin Deep
Kas Thomas wrote a post about how CMIS could be called DMIS as it is more for document management systems than content management systems. This hit me on two fronts. The first is with the concept of “CMS”.
Why is it that when I talk to people about “CMS”, they are almost always referring to Web Content Management? Seems to be a pretty narrow definition of the use of content. Along the same lines, many “Information Architects” that work with these “CMS” applications seem to be senior website designers. I’ve met Information Architects that I felt deserved the title, but they dealt with things beyond, though including, the web. Enough of that, for now, on to the main course…
The second, is of course the slight to CMIS. That is the focus today. While I encourage criticism of CMIS as criticism is important for growth, I don’t want misconceptions to perpetuate themselves.
Sticks and Stones
EMC and Mark Lewis’ Focus on Return on Information
In my previous post, I shared a copy of Mark Lewis’ CMA keynote presentation from EMC World 2009. It made me realize that I needed to crank out this post on EMC’s vision and Mark Lewis’ delivery of that vision. This is going to be a little devoid of facts for a couple of reasons. One is that the raw facts are captured in the presentation, SlideShare and YouTube, and in my notes. The second is that no vision was delivered at EMC World!!!
The Missing Vision
Talking on CMIS at EMC World and Other Slides
In case you missed it, there were a lot of presentations last week at EMC World. While most of the slides are only available to attendees, there are a few exceptions. The first is my presentation. Since I wrote part of it and was a co-presenter with Karin Ondricek of EMC, I was given permission to share it online. I’m throwing it out there for everyone to see, especially as I didn’t take notes on my own presentation.
One thing that I always convey when I talk about the AIIM iECM demo, that isn’t on the slides, is that it took 1 hour to add Nuxeo to the Federated Search demo, and that was with declaring the CMIS Web Services manually within Visual Studio. That took half an hour. For more details on the demo source code a other valuable links, look at my previous post on the The Source Code from the AIIM iECM CMIS Demo.
Mark Lewis’ Keynote
Another Year in the Life of Pie
A funny thing happened over the Memorial Day weekend that just went by, Word of Pie turned two-years-old on the 24th. I told the story about how it started, an almost-rant about EMC World 2007, several times last week, but didn’t actually get around to writing this post to celebrate the landmark until now.
I understand that not everyone might think that writing a blog for two years is a grand achievement, but try it out sometime. The blog is a lot more work than I ever thought and the rewards are soft (i.e. non-financial) and infrequent at times. I do enjoy those rewards though, even it isn’t why I do this.
Activities of Pie
Documentum, So Close and Still So Far Away with SharePoint
Apologies to Andrew on this post, but I’ve got to get everything out of my system before I learn anything new NDA items about the two products working together. I think EMC is moving in right direction on these products, but they aren’t there yet. That being said, their current approach is easily the best that I’ve seen, and I’ve seen a lot.
Before you read this post, read my EMC World notes on SharePoint Repository Services and Content Services for SharePoint. That should help with the background.
Why SharePoint Repository Services Rocks
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Looking Back on EMC World 2009
It has been a busy week. I think each year my schedule get crazier and crazier while I am here at the conference. As a result, I notice things that make it both easier, and more difficult, for me to accomplish everything that I set out to accomplish at the conference. While it is all still fresh, and I wait for my ride, I want to share some thoughts on the conference.
Before I dive in, I want to say that I recognize that EMC has listened and tried to make the conference better for the Content Management professional. I appreciate the efforts and I hope that they continue to listen to the feedback. No conference is perfect, but they should strive for perfection.
I shared, and gathered, these thoughts with people from EMC employees, partners, and customers. This is a conference evaluation, not on the strategy or direction of EMC. That will come later. Check my EMC World page for all my links.
EMC World 2009: Integrating EMC xPression Customer Communications with Documentum
Document Sciences was bought by EMC a few years back and they have had a fairly solid Component Content Management system. Todd Lauinger who came over with the acquisition, is going to provide a technical overview. Hoping to learn a few tricks.
Word of Pie 