Content Services
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Content Analytics at the AIIM 2016 Conference
[Originally published on the TeraThink blog] I attended the annual AIIM Conference recently in New Orleans. As expected, it was a great event with a lot of interesting presentations. I spent a lot of time talking to people, learning what they were doing, how they were achieving success, and hearing about what wasn’t working. I may… Continue reading
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Leveraging Open Source and the Cloud for Your Open ECM Platforms
[Originally published on the TeraThink blog] We’ve been talking about how to leverage open APIs to connect content-centric solutions together. The goal is to leverage the success from deploying point solutions without creating the numerous silos that typically accompany that approach. The question that arises is what kind of platform providers are incented to create and… Continue reading
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The Open ECM Platform
[Originally published on the TeraThink blog] There has been talk of creating enterprise content management (ECM) platforms for years. They typically do not live up to the hype or expectations. The upfront investment typically required dooms most projects before they deploy their first business solution. It has reached the point where if an organization wants to… Continue reading
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Stop the Closed Content Silos
[Originally published on the TeraThink blog] It starts simply enough. Your company needs a system for managing its contracts process. The finance department goes out and purchases a contracts system. Being forward thinking, they pick one that is cloud-based so they don’t have to maintain the infrastructure. Things are going well until… The ability to track supporting… Continue reading
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Talking Business Solutions in Russia
In my last post, I talked about my trip to Russia. I was there to speak during the opening session of the ECM Ecosystem conference being put on by the Russian edition of PC Week. I thought I would share the English version of my presentation , The Shift to Business Solutions, and some of… Continue reading
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Why We Don’t Have an Enterprise Data Management Problem
Finally pulling out the analogy to end all analogies in the argument of whether or not Enterprise Content Management is dead or alive. Honestly, it never existed and we need to focus on Content Services. Dan Antion, an AIIM Board Member, disagrees with me. While I never let someone disagreeing with me slow me down,… Continue reading
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Content Services, Not ECM
Recently I’ve been trying to walk a narrow path. I have all but pronounced Enterprise Content Management (ECM) dead, and yet I have expressed a belief that Content Services need to be embedded into business applications. The question is two-fold. How can you serve Content Services without a platform? Isn’t that ECM with a different… Continue reading