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What is Content?
A couple months back, Deane Barker wrote an article where he declared himself a Content Management Professional. This is a true statement by every definition of the term I have ever encountered. If that was all there was to it, this would be a boring post. Deane then made the mistake of defining Content. I… Continue reading
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When is 30% Better Than 80%?
There is a basic misconception that is plaguing the Content Management industry. This misconception is that 80% is better than 30%. Without context, it doesn’t seem like much of a misconception, but trust me, it is a problem. The missing context? What percentage of features that organizations are looking for does a solution have out-of-the-box?… Continue reading
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Fresh Start with Alfresco
After announcing my departure from AIIM yesterday, today I start my next adventure. As you can tell from the title, it is with Alfresco. That still leaves open a lot of questions. Why Alfresco? What will Pie be doing at Alfresco? Won’t having Pie working with Peter Monks be a bit odd? I shall take… Continue reading
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Box Defends Against Office 365
In case you missed it, Box introduced some new pricing last week. While the details are not relevant right now, the key detail was that if you have only 10 people, your price per user is now $5. This is great if you are a small shop because you don’t need as many features and… Continue reading
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Addressing Denials by an ECM Disruptee
Lane Severson posted a rebuttal to my statement that Information Management has Failed. My first thought is that he doesn’t see it. That was also my second thought. Then I remembered a truth about disruptions that I shared on Twitter the other day, The very nature of Disruptions is that those being disrupted live in… Continue reading
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Box Isn’t Disrupting Because of the Cloud
I recently realized this truth which seems both contradictory and obvious at the same time. Box and the other cloud vendors aren’t disrupting the industry because they are Cloud/Software-as-a-Service(SaaS) vendors, they are disrupting it because they put people ahead of the Enterprise. Think on it a minute. I talked about this in my AIIM keynote… 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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Future of the Cloud, Suite or Best of Breed?
The last few weeks have been very interesting. Oracle held their annual conference, followed by SalesForce, and then Box. It was a good time to be in San Francisco as you had three distinct approaches to helping the Enterprise. Oracle, for all the jokes around them “discovering” the cloud this year, offered a story about… Continue reading
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Records Management and the Cloud
It should be obvious to you if you’ve spent any time on this blog that I firmly believe the cloud is the future. It solves so many of the stumbling blocks and time consuming tasks that people face during implementations and ongoing growth that it is silly to think of a different future in the… Continue reading
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Checking the Industry Trends
I was playing with Google Trends the other day. I was curious what terms people were searching for on Google and how they related to the terms we seem to throw around the industry. This particular bout of curiosity stemmed from distinguishing between the technology and the business problems that people are trying to solve.… Continue reading