This is the event I have been waiting for all day. Mark Lewis is going to talk and hopefully share the story behind the new name for the Content Management and Archiving Group, the Information Intelligence Group.
Documentum
EMC World 2010: Documentum Powering a SOA-Platform for an Operational Military HQ
Here to hear Alexandra talk about a real-world case with SOA and Documentum. SOA has a lot of traction in the military as their dispersed,rapid-response nature really calls for SOA.
EMC World 2010: DFS Real World Examples & Best Practices
This is the third year in a row at this session. Mike (MT) Mohen is a smart guy who really knows what it take to make DFS work in the real world. This stuff is also applicable to EMC’s CMIS implementation as it is built on top of DFS.
EMC World 2010: Rules of the Road
Things are starting in a few days up in Boston, but I wanted to share my plans with everyone, and lay down my Rules for EMC World. These rules are very similar to last years Rules, but I’ve updated a bit as I do every year.
All posts that follow these rules will start EMC World 2010:. This is to clearly identify them for everyone. If I write a post before/during/after the conference that doesn’t adhere to what I am laying-out here, it won’t have that prefix.
Disclaimers
I’m going to be running a basic disclaimer in all my posts. If for some reason I forget to paste it in, this disclaimer applies to all EMC World 2010: prefixed posts and you can be sure I’ll be adding the disclaimer as soon as I notice that it is missing. This is because I will be writing the posts during/after sessions and I will hear things that I may misconstrue or that talk about future events.
All information in this post was gathered from the presenters and presentation. It does not reflect my opinion unless clearly indicated (Italics in parenthesis). Any errors are most likely from my misunderstanding a statement or imperfectly recording the information. Updates to correct information are reflected in red, but will not be otherwise indicated.
All statements about the future of EMC products and strategy are subject to change at any time due to a large variety of factors.
As indicated, if I learn later that something I posted was incorrect, I will endeavor to correct it, but it may not be immediate.
Topics of Conversation
As a general rule, if I, or the person I am talking to at the time, has a beverage in their hand, I’m not blogging/tweeting it. If it is blatantly clear that the information is public, I will share it in a constructed post during, or shortly after, EMC World.
The issue here is that I am a longtime partner of EMC/Documentum. As such, I am sometimes privy to information that is not made available to the general public. This information is used to serve my clients better. If I started sharing this information, then I would no longer be able to learn any of it in the future. That information is by far more important any benefit that I may gain by posting it here.
This is a fun little line that I have to walk, but I think I’ve walked it well. There are several EMC personnel that have shared information with me since I started this blog and subsequently tweeting. I have, to date, kept all confidences and will continue to do so in the future.
Introducing Twitter
I will be using Twitter some during EMC World. You can follow me at @piewords. You can also follow all the Momentum 2010 action at #mmtm10 and the entire EMC World action at #emcworld.
Most information will be going here, into my blog. Random thoughts and where I am going (in my annual quest to maintain my caffeine levels) will be mostly through Twitter. If you don’t have my phone number, your best bet to locate me at EMC World will be through Twitter.
The Time Delay
I am a busy person at the conference. As such, not all posts will be tagged immediately as I will be focusing on getting them posted and moving to the next session. Have no fear, the tags will come.
I will also be updating my EMC World page of links only once every day. While it is a good index of what I have written, it will not be definitive until after the conference is over and I have time to update it.
That’s it…See you there!
CMIS has Arrived, Demo Anyone?
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Simple, push for CMIS 2.0! In all seriousness, that is a post for another day. I want to focus on the actual release of the standard and the Demo where you can see it in action.
CenterStage or SharePoint? An Early Look
I recently dissected a “comparison” between Documentum and SharePoint. Karma was paying attention and I found myself performing a comparison of CenterStage and SharePoint for one of my long-time eRoom customers last week.
Setting the Stage
A little background. This client has had eRoom Enterprise since 2004. There has been some isolated success in some pockets of the organization, but not everywhere. The initial champions left during the deployment and there was no real concerted push to use the system afterwards. It had grown slowly over time, but hadn’t become a must-use system for many.
Dissecting a Documentum-SharePoint “Comparison”
Saw a tweet today that was pretty exciting. It was referencing a “comparison” between SharePoint and Documentum. I was initially excited. I’d love to see CenterStage and SharePoint compared. I compared SharePoint to eRoom a couple of years back and wasn’t planning on a comparison with CenterStage until the database/list functionality was ported over.
My excitement was short-lived.
I instead encountered a piece that resembles propaganda more than a fair and balanced comparison. That may sound harsh, but I will defend the charge.
HIMSS 2010: Social Networking-Are You Listening
The focus of this session is on use cases in using Social Networking in the Health IT world. I thought I would attend to see how these tools are being used here.
Lessons in Product Marketing, ECM Style
Last week I went to the Drug Information Association’s conference on Electronic Document Management (DIA EDM). I was there to get my feet wet again in the pharmaceutical industry. I wanted to see what had changed and how things had evolved.
I learned a few things. The first was that the drivers are basically the same in the industry as they were a few years back. I’m still digesting the material on the conference, and there should be more on what I learned later. The most important thing that I learned wasn’t about Clinical Research Organizations or any other of the latest trends in managing electronic submissions.
It was in marketing.
EMC Admits it Needs Help, Partners with FatWire
If you haven’t been paying attention, EMC announced a strategic partnership with FatWire today. I couldn’t be much more pleased. I’ve been pretty clear that I don’t feel that EMC’s Documentum Web Publisher has the chops to compete in the market and that as long as its release cycle was tied to the Content Server, it never would.
That is no longer a problem. What does this mean for EMC and FatWire?
Word of Pie 