Brilliant Leap

Brilliant Outsourcing

So, are you wondering what those brilliant folks you outsource your Documentum tasks to are doing?

a) Applying their years of Documentum experience to your problems?

b) Watching movies from Hollywood or Bollywood?

c) Genuinely trying to do the work that needs to be done?

Emasculation of Documentum?

If our Documentum clients are talking about anything, it's D6's compatibility with SOA environments and Documentum's snuggling up to Sharepoint. The enthused chatter among those mapping-out their ECM strategies for next year is that tags, metadata and other code that would have prevented Documentum from interacting with other technologies have all been stripped out of D6.

Sharepoint - Friend, foe or irrelevant?

Rumors of Sharepoint and MOSS invading the ECM space are running rampant. "The commercial sounds good, but I have yet to see them deliver," says one of our customers. "It may be an 800 lb. Guerilla," says another. "We've replaced one of our docbases (Documentum) with Sharepoint," says still another. And perhaps the most interesting comment I've heard is, "If EMC is talking ENTERPRISE, then Documentum has an entirely new set of competitors - ORACLE, Microsoft, SAP, among others. We'll still be using Documentum as a repository for a while, but...."

Information? Content? Records? Buzz, Buzz!

What are we managing now? Records, documents, content...Nope, it's information, at least according to EMC. "Where Information Lives" is its tagline. AIIM, which was previously known as the Association for Information and Image Management, is now the "Enterprise Content Management Association" BUT, they're talking about "Information" too. BUZZ ! BUZZ! We're just a little confused. But...lucky for us, we found this little slide show (complete with a commercial from AIIM) that attempts to explain it all!

Google Your ECM

You heard it here first.

Google has announced that it has extended the indexing and search capabilities of its turnkey Search Appliance 5.0 to the major Enterprise Content Management systems on the market today. Namely, EMC's Documentum, IBM's FileNet, Microsoft's SharePoint, and OpenText's Livelink.

Back to the Future

When I first began recruiting in the EDMS space, the "E" stood for Electronic rather than Enterprise. A "document" was something that was likely to be delivered in three-dimensions. "Management" referred to capturing, storing, indexing and retrieving the content in "documents". And a "system" was a way of storing and organizing it all using computers and various external devices