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
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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
Evolutionary Road
Continuing the theme of the Future of ECM … trend #4 … Web sites, powered by Web Content Management systems, have already evolved from the initial “static / brochure ware” web sites into more dynamic sites that personalise the information that is delivered to the end-user. However, this initial “web 1.0” evolution has predominantly been … Continue reading Evolutionary Road
The spawning of a new construction boom
Continuing the theme of the Future of ECM ... trend #3 ... The majority of the development and configuration work that is done when implementing ECM solutions is traditionally done with a specific ECM product in mind. With the introduction of the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard , I believe that this status quo … Continue reading The spawning of a new construction boom
The seduction of the species
Continuing the theme of the Future of ECM ... trend #2 ... Experience is everything User participation is absolutely essential to the successful deployment of an ECM solution. Without it, most fail or only achieve moderate success. This might seem like an obvious point, but is one that is often not fully appreciated. There are … Continue reading The seduction of the species
The Digital Word on the Street 