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Open Source ECM is Dead
It finally happened. An acquisition in the ECM space that was so newsworthy I had to write about it. One so big that it is going to fundamentally change the market. Hyland just announced that they are acquiring Nuxeo. I never thought that an acquisition involving these two firms would be so newsworthy. However, this… Continue reading
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Content Services Made Possible With AWS
[Originally written for the TeraThink blog. Additional edits have been to clarify context.] We’ve shared a bit about how we’ve setup a working infrastructure for content services at USCIS. While it hasn’t always been easy, there have been a few key takeaways that have made TeraThink’s efforts successful. Define business-centric APIs. We currently use Mule… Continue reading
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Join TeraThink At Alfresco’s 2019 Government Summit
[Originally published on the TeraThink blog] Alfresco is bringing their Alfresco Days series of events back to D.C. again on May 23. The 2019 Alfresco Government Summit focuses on generating discussions around leveraging Alfresco as a platform in the cloud. Specifically, as an open source content services platform living in AWS. TeraThink will be there… Continue reading
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Alfresco Pushes Content Services for Digital Transformation
[Originally published on the TeraThink blog] This week I attended the 2017 Alfresco Government Summit here in DC. It is part of Alfresco’s rotating 1-day summits that they hold around the world during the year. Alfresco held this year’s DC event at Nats Park, a great location for the great weather. When attendance is good, it… Continue reading
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Making Information Management Work in Our Digital World
[Originally published on the TeraThink blog] One of our core solutions at TeraThink is Information Management. It is a term that we, and the industry, use to encompass a large collection of skills and expertise centered around content and information. Information Management is also a critical part of everything organizations do every day. How do… Continue reading
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Revisiting the Content Management Frontier
Two years ago, a journal was discovered while excavating in the Trough of Disillusionment of Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technologies. The journal told a story of fear, distrust, and desperation. Today another tome was discovered. Written hastily in the margins of an IDOL manual was the following text. It is estimated… Continue reading
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Saying Goodbye to Documentum
One year ago, when Dell announced it was buying EMC, I wrote, If you see Open Text or CA buy the ECD, start lighting the funeral pyres because Documentum would be officially brain dead and waiting for the machines to be turned off. Well, it happened. OpenText acquired Documentum. This brings to end the Enterprise… Continue reading
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Box and Dropbox Race for Long-Term Relevancy
In case you missed it, Dropbox has followed the path blazed by Box and has integrated with Microsoft Office. While Box integrated on the desktop, Dropbox is integrating with the Office mobile apps and plans to extend it to the Online Office versions. This is a no-brainer move as anything that simplifies people’s ability to… Continue reading
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Moving from Expert to Evangelist and Back
It has been an interesting few years. As I approach the 7th anniversary of this blog, I was prodded to look at my journey by Gina Minks. She wrote a post about how to take advantage of experts and evangelists without them turning into obnoxious tools. (Her words were not as kind) She was asking… Continue reading
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Box v Dropbox v Everyone
While I was at Alfresco, I made a point of ignoring the competition. I always believe that if you can’t win without saying something negative, don’t bother. On the flip side, I didn’t want to draw extra attention to the competition. Don’t have any of those issues now. Even though I was quiet, new things… Continue reading