EMC
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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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Acquisition of Recommind by Open Text Opens Things Up
First the basics. Open Text has purchase Recommind, a strong player in the eDiscovery space. This is Open Text’s second significant acquisition in the past few months, the other being when Open Text purchased some customer experience software components from HP including Interwoven and MediaBin. We knew more acquisitions were coming after they then announced… Continue reading
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Dell, EMC, and Poor Documentum
I haven’t blogged in a while for various reasons that I won’t get into in this post but recent news demands that I share some thoughts. It seems that barring a better offer, Dell is going to buy EMC for a LOT of money. Now the numbers don’t really matter to me as I don’t… Continue reading
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Reports from the Content Management Frontier
The following are excerpts from an explorer hiking the Gartner Hype Cycle for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technologies. Day 1, Reached the Peak Today we finally reached the Peak of Inflated Expectations. The view is simply amazing. This technology is going to revolutionize everything. Everyone is excited and teaming up with their friends. Documentum just… 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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EMC’s Faulty Perception of Content Management
While at the Monktoberfest last week, I had the luck to run into some people from EMC. Not just any folk from EMC, they were from “core”, the storage side of the business. After convincing them that I knew enough about EMC to have a real conversation, we discussed Documentum and the Information Intelligence Group… Continue reading
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Six Years of Pie
You may not know it looking at my last two months of activity, or lack of it, but I’ve been writing, tweeting, and generally being loudly opinionated for the past six years. What started as just a way to vent my opinion over the direction of EMC/Documentum has become a platform for trying to push… Continue reading
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Looking at the Legacy Content Management Vendors
In my predictions for 2013, I made the following prediction on the future of the traditional “leaders” in the Content Management space. First Major On-Premises Traditional ECM Vendor will become Obsolete: I know, obvious right? Statistically speaking, one of those vendors will likely still be a market leader in 10 years. In 2013, we’ll see… Continue reading
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Box, Syncplicity, and EMC
This post has been a long time coming but it really took me a while to come to grips with all the implications of the Synplicity acquisition, and there are many. (Plus there is this whole day-job thing with AIIM). There are really three angles to take when looking at the acquisition. What this does… Continue reading