— By Apoorv Durga —-
Recently, I did this webinar on evolution of Content Management Systems. I’ve been covering different Content Management Marketplaces (ECM, WCM etc) for a long time now. So I went back to my reports from 2000s and looked at what the CM/ECM trends were in those years. Here are some slides from that webinar on how … Read more
File Sharing and Sync provider Dropbox announced it will acquire eSignature vendor HelloSign. Dropbox is a popular light-weight collaboration service with capabilities for file sharing and sync across multiple devices. HelloSign is an eSignature service provider that allows enterprises to automate (mainly) paper-based signature-oriented tasks. Think of a document that goes to multiple people for their signature. … Read more
ECM vendor OpenText has acquired Hightail. Hightail, formerly called YouSendIt, offers a file-sharing and sync service. OpenText now has at least four file-sharing and sync services. In addition to Hightail, they have OpenText Core and OpenText Tempo Box. Documentum acquisition also gave them EMC Leap, which has some overlaps with cloud-based file-sharing and collaboration services. … Read more
There are many use cases in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) for which Machine Learning can be deployed. In fact, i’d argue that you can apply machine learning in all the stages of content life cycle. You can apply: Supervised learning e.g, to automatically classify images, archive documents, delete files no longer required (and not likely … Read more
Blockchain is best known for its use by the alternative and controversial currency market and most notably Bitcoin. But Blockchain is not Bitcoin nor is Blockchain an alternative/crypto currency. Rather Blockchain is an underlying distributed ledger technology (DLT) that can be used in many different contexts other than Bitcoin. In fact, we are already seeing … Read more
Happy New Year everyone. Here’s wishing you a great twenty-ten. I have renamed this blog to just “Random Thoughts”. Of course, i’d still be writing about Content Technologies but on the CMS Watch blog now. In fact, I’ve been enjoying my work at CMS Watch, where I cover Portals, Enterprise Content Management and Web Content … Read more
Whether one is implementing a new system or moving from one system to another, content migration is always an important aspect. Each situation is unique and so each migration scenario will have its own roadmap. However, there are some common factors that are present in each migration and can determine how long will the migration last. … Read more
Forrester recently named Fatwire a Leader in their WCM for external Sites Quadrant. And the folks at Fatwire have already called two of their fellow-quads (for the lack of a better term), Interwoven and Vignette as legacy WCM products! Incidentally, Interwoven sits nicely in the Leader quadrant in the same report and was also named the fastest growing … Read more
These are some observations, in no particular order. I will possibly post some “more sensible” posts on specific topics later. It was first time for me at EMC World and I thought the focus was much more on storage and infrastructure as compared to content management. They did certainly much better though in terms of … Read more
I’d be traveling over next couple of weeks mainly to attend EMC World in Orlando and meet customers in the US. We have been working on some interesting concepts (Hosted Document Services, Factory Model and ECM Maturity Model) and I will take this opportunity to socialize these and get feedback from our customers. This is my … Read more