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8 Things You Need to Know About Open Source ECM

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8 Things - Open Source ECM - Nuxeo White Paper
Back in December, the AIIM Digital Landfill blog  graciously allowed me to contribute a post to their on-going "8 Things…" series.  Titled "8 Things You Should Know About Open Source ECM", this piece explored some of aspects I thought most essential for ECM practitioners to understand when considering an open source platform – possibly for the first time. 

There is still a striking level of FUD messaging (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt…) that legacy vendors spin in order to distract customers from considering an open source ECM offering, so I wanted to share some of the truths and observations that I've learned over the last few months here at Nuxeo.

The topics I blogged about in December kept coming up in conversations I had with ECM practitioners – and it continued to surprise me just how much opportunity for education there still was out there… conversations at conferences, by phone and via social media… the world of open source enterprise content management is still a new world to discover.

So…not only did we expand the blog post into a White Paper (available from our white paper download page here) …  but we also hosted a webinar on April 28 on this same topic.  If you missed it, no worries – the recording can be accessed via our Events page  and the slide deck is now posted on SlideShare.net. Let me know what you think… and I invite our current Nuxeo customers to share what they think other companies should know about open source ECM…and why it can be the right choice for organizations who need to solve the tough content management challenges in their business.

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April 30th, 2010 at 9:52 pm

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  • http://profile.typepad.com/bduhon Bryant Duhon

    Great points, Cheryl. I've been a bit baffled by all of the FUD surrounding Open Sources as well. Seems to me that many ECM vendors hijacked the term ECM and morphed the definition from the essential strategy everyone needs for managing information to a straight technology play. I don't think that did anyone any good in the long term. It also seems like there's been a double hijacking with open source:
    1. People see open source and think, "FREEEEEEEEE"
    2. Your FUD argument
    Seems simple to me: it's the ongoing support/maintenance that generates ongoing revenue (proprietary or open source). So, regardless of open source or proprietary, businesses need to do the basic work of identifying their business challenges and THEN finding a product that can address that challenge. The lack of research companies put into finding a good technology platform to manage their content often stuns me. People spend more time researching buying a car than they do the tools to manage their vital corporate information.
    Coming from AIIM, I 100% agree with point #8 :)
    Bryant
    http://www.aiimcommunities.org