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A Rant Against "CMS"
This is a rant. I rarely write rants, but here is one. It is based on one of my largest pet peeves in the technology industry. It is about a commonly accepted term and not about the people who use it. It is about “CMS”. This is a term that for many is synonymous with… Continue reading
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What Makes a CMS a CMS?
There has been a lot of debate of late on Twitter about whether or not WordPress is a CMS (ignoring the “WCM v CMS v ???” issue for now). Peter Monks is an proponent against the concept [Edit: He isn’t, see comments], as is Irina Guseva, a senior editor for CMS Wire. Ron Miller over… Continue reading
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Exploring a Brave New World, HIMSS 2010
This is going to be a busy week for me. I am off to HIMSS 2010 in Atlanta for a two primary reasons (and about a thousand secondary). The first is to support my Healthcare colleagues from Washington Consulting at the conference. The second, which will make the first all the more challenging, is to… Continue reading
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CMIS is Helping Application Separation, Today
It is already happening, and I couldn’t be happier. There are CMIS-base custom clients being developed and released that are taking some of the pain out of using ECM systems. I’m not talking about open source clients, but commercial clients with dedicated teams and one goal, to make money. I know that there is pain… Continue reading
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Looking Beyond Box’s Market-Speak
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about Box.net. In case you missed it, I basically called their term for their solution, which I refuse to use again, “market speak” and hype while implying much worse. A week later, Aaron Levie, the CEO and cofounder of Box.net, was interviewed on Fierce Content Management. Here… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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Is 2010 the Year of CMIS?
Yesterday, Fierce Content Management published an article that I wrote entitled The Future of CMIS. I discussed what I see as a very busy, and important, year for CMIS. It is a good article, at least on the Scale of Pie, and I am not going to be regurgitating it here for you. Instead, I… Continue reading
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"Cloud Content Management" Hype
Every now and then, I read a post/article/tweet that makes me slam my head against the nearest hard surface. The culprit this time was an article titled Cloud Content Management to Challenge ECM? I saw the title and was intrigued. I then read it and realized that the author had started falling for some market… Continue reading
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Let the Games Begin, The 2010 AIIM CMIS Demo
As promised, here is the “official” announcement of what the iECM Committee is doing this year for CMIS demo at the AIIM Expo. This year we are trying to create a reference application that we can actually use for a long time and grow with new functionality. We are looking for participants to help us… Continue reading
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The AIIM CMIS Demo: Looking Back at 2009 and Ahead to 2010
I’ve published a lot on the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard since it’s initial public announcement in September of 2008. One problem is that a lot of that content is spread out in multiple blog posts. Well Thomas Pole, the AIIM iECM Committee chair, and I have written a whitepaper talking about the demo… Continue reading