Time to hear Mark Lewis. I’m going to try and resist commentary and hold-off until I have a chance to talk to Mark later today. Mark is a good guy, smart, and knows his stuff. I’m sure this will be up on YouTube later, and I’ll link directly then.
(Now on SlideShare and YouTube)
Moving around, trying to figure out the best session to attend and ended up here after Andrew told me to catch the next SharePoint session later today. This session is important because many users just want to work within Microsoft Office, specifically Outlook. Let’s see what Namrata Murlidhar has to say on this topic.
Victor Spivak, chief architect for the platform, is presenting on what is the most popular topic post from last year. Victor is smart and doesn’t mince words. The session was mostly packed 15 minutes before it even started.
Victor is going to breeze through many of the things that haven’t changed in a year, so supplement these notes with last year’s notes. These notes are “more accurate” if they conflict.
Didn’t do any sessions during the second slot, everything was standing room only when I got there, at least the ones I card about. Going to take some time to see what David Le Strat has to say about CenterStage. I have a lot of eRoom clients that are anxious to move to CenterStage, when it is ready for them.
One of my most popular session notes from last year returns for a sequel. Not a bad way to start the conference. Let’s see if Michael (MT) Mohen of EMC Professional Services can deliver on their promise to provide us with lots of new material…
Things are starting in just under a week in Orlando, 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 to include Twitter in the discussion as I set the expectations before I start.
All posts that follow these rules will start EMC World 2009:. 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.
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 2009: 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.
Craig Randall recently posted how he was presenting on Building Content-Enabled Applications at EMC World, at least until he was downed by injury. Regardless of his injury, this is a topic of great interest to me and I had a few conversations over the past year with him on the topic. I wanted to chime in on his post to both amplify it and see if we can get some dialog going in advance of the conference.
Well, I finally broke down and registered for EMC World. This year it is May 18-22 in Orlando. I got my hotel reservations months ago and wasn’t in a rush for the actual registration as the price has yet to change. I don’t need a free gift for registering early. In this economy, it is all about the Benjamins and the impact on the balance sheet, so no discount, no early registration push.
I was thinking about talking about my plans for EMC World, which looks pretty good, but the I realized something…This will be my 10th Documentum User Conference! So I have decided to flash back a bit to the previous conferences.
Love YouTube sometimes. I cached videos in the browser yesterday so I could watch it while I sit in a Starbucks getting my morning kick of caffeine (and watching the falling snow). The caching does tend to limit my desire to actually shutdown my laptop. Silly Windows Update keeps pinging me to restart (as if on cue, I click on Restart Later and typing continues).
Which videos am I looking at??? The keynotes from Momentum 2008 in Prague. I have been making plans to attend EMC World in May and I was looking back to see any changes from the last EMC World to that Momentum. More on EMC World later, but if you aren’t already making plans to attend, you need to get on the ball.
I talked a few weeks ago about the proposed CMIS standard. I then went on to explain that vendor support is one of the two critical keys, the other the technical details, for the standard to succeed. I went on to stress that the leaders for successful adoption of CMIS need to be the ECM Platform vendors.
I then promised some more posts on the topic and promptly vanished. I’ve been busy at work and trying to enjoy the college football season. I have vowed to get some posts out in the next week addressing the vendor support for CMIS. As I know most familiar with EMC’s efforts, I’m starting with them.
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