Continuing the theme of the Future of ECM … final trend #13 … This final blog post in my outlook on the future of ECM trends over the coming 5 years focuses on the deployment of ECM into the cloud. The implementation of ECM solutions, probably more so with Document Management, is increasingly focused on … Continue reading ECM in the Cloud
Component Content Management
Continuing the theme of the Future of ECM … trend #12 out of 13 … We are all used to working with bulky, monolithic documents where individual sections or paragraphs are often worked on by different people. Once published, a typical problem that often occurs with such documents is that some of the content in … Continue reading Component Content Management
Wider adoption of Information Rights Management
Continuing the theme of the Future of ECM … trend #11 … This blog post looks at the increasing role that Information Rights Management (IRM) will play as a trend around ECM implementations over the coming years. IRM is a technology that embeds digital rights into documents offering an additional means of safeguarding documents from … Continue reading Wider adoption of Information Rights Management
Impact of Open Source
Continuing the theme of the Future of ECM … trend #10 … In the current economic climate, where many organisations are slashing their budgets and de-scoping new projects to focus on essentials to get the job done (dropping many of the extras and “bells and whistles”), open source ECM vendors are stepping up to offer … Continue reading Impact of Open Source
ECM as a commodity
Continuing the theme of the Future of ECM … trend #9 … Dropping into the infrastructure layer With the onset of a more service-oriented approach to content management, and with less differentiation between ECM vendors around core content functionality, we expect ECM platforms to drop into the infrastructure layer, becoming a core and essential part … Continue reading ECM as a commodity
Market consolidation
Continuing the theme of the Future of ECM … trend #8 … The ECM market has gone through a series of frenzied acquisitions over the past decade as each of the leading ECM vendors assembled its arsenal of core ECM components. I've attempted to illustrate the main acquisitions by the leading ECM vendors in the … Continue reading Market consolidation
Semantonomics
Continuing the theme of the Future of ECM … trend #7 … In this future trend of ECM, I talk about how semantic technology is likely to play an increasing role in facilitating the discovery of information, connecting it with the people that need it, often before they even know that they need it, thereby … Continue reading Semantonomics
The Collaborative Office
Continuing the theme of the Future of ECM … trend #6 … Rapid uptake of social media Social Media is not a fad, it represents a fundamental shift in the way that we communicate. This is evident if you consider that as of December 2010, 7 out of the top 20 most visited web sites … Continue reading The Collaborative Office
Customer engagement
Continuing the theme of the Future of ECM … trend #5 … Social CRM And so it starts, reminiscent to when we started putting an “e” in front of everything back in 1999 (such as eCommerce, eBusiness, eBay), it now looks like there is going to be a flux of “social” everything. Social CRM (Customer … Continue reading Customer engagement
Recording human capital and information as assets in the balance sheet
This blog explores the concept of being able to record a value in the balance sheet to both the information within an ECM and the knowledge amongst staff (especially with the increasing up-take of social computing tools used internally within organisations). People are our greatest asset. This is something that you will hear most organisations … Continue reading Recording human capital and information as assets in the balance sheet
The Digital Word on the Street 