This is the work part. Posts here relate to the craft of my career and profession.
So a funny thing happened on my way to the West Coast this week, I was invited to a product launch at Box.net. I’ve always been a fan of the concept of Content Management in the Cloud and the direction Box has taken in the Content Management space.
The established vendors are having to determine how to change both their business models and architecture before they more to the the cloud. Box is already there, they just need more features.
There has been a lot of talk of late regarding the demise of the Java Content Repository (JCR) specification and what to do when a standard does die off. Much of this is blamed on the emergence of CMIS as a standard, but that is just a contributory factor. Many Content Management specifications and standards have withered over the last decade without a standard positioned to replace them.
Well, I’m doing it again, making predictions for the next year. The sad thing is that I am even more cynical about making predictions this year than last. That is why I wrote an article for CMS Wire on Trends for 2011. I’m confident on trends but it is hard to determine if a trend will result in anything measureable.
Well, here we go. A list of predictions, and things to watch, in 2011.
As I discussed previously, AIIM teamed with Geoffrey Moore to map out the future of Content Management. I was interested enough to attend the webinar on the topic to see what additional details I could glean.
Here are my notes from the webinar. You can also download the presentation for details to blend with my notes [and my thoughts].
One thing I haven’t really done with this blog is use it for any focused efforts to help my day job. I am going to break that trend for one day because I am looking for some smart people and I want to find them sooner rather than later.
There is an online posting for the type of person I am looking to hire. Before I share the link, I want to talk a little more in detail about what is going on behind the scenes.
My company, Washington Consulting, Inc., does a fair amount of consulting in both functional and technical areas. We do focus a lot on Information and Content Management, but it is far from the only thing that we do for our clients. We also work with a wide array of technologies, Documentum and SharePoint just being two of the more widely used technologies.
Last year I succumbed to the pressure of being one of the only bloggers to NOT have predictions for 2010. So on the last day of the year, I threw together a post with some predictions.
As a side effect, I have to evaluate them now. I am going to score them as either correct, incorrect, or partial (50%). The partial is for predictions that were correct in the causes, but the effects were off.
So, let’s dive into the juicy goodness.
I’m sitting here reflecting upon a very productive Gilbane Conference in Boston this week. It was good to talk to people and see what people were thinking about in the Content Management industry. Engagement, Search, and Social were big, overlapping themes in the conference.
I was at Gilbane in order present my view on the future of Content Management. I thought I would share the slides here and talk a little about the recent research on the same topic from AIIM.
So Gartner released the new Magic Quadrant last week.
Um…..
I’m a little torn here. It is an important piece of research and of value and all that, but…
Of course, it is full of useful/interesting facts, so let’s dive into it…[download a copy from Hyland Software.]
A couple of years ago, I attended a discussion on using SharePoint/MOSS 2007 for Web Content Management and wrote a well visited post, SP for WCM, The Movie. Well, as you may have noticed, Microsoft released a new version this year and they are starting to market it heavily with SharePoint Solutions for Internet Sites.
Well, this week I participated in the SharePoint Symposium 2010 as part of KM World. Specifically I was part of the panel discussing the question of whether or not you can use SharePoint for WCM.
I’ll give a simple answer at the bottom, but I’m going to share the thoughts and opinions that were shared by others and myself.
This post has been a long time in coming. I’m not talking about the news that has triggered the actual writing of the post, just the themes of the post overall. They should be pretty clear shortly….
That said, let’s hit the headline, Mark Lewis is no longer the President of EMC’s IIG business unit, which is effectively Documentum. Rick Devenuti, formerly the COO, is effectively taking over the position.
Wow. I’m happy, but you need to read on to understand that oversimplification of my mood.
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