Archive for May, 2010

What’s the future of Enterprise Content Management? What will the next generation of content-centric applications look like? Who will build them? How can organizations refresh and revitalize their information management strategies for the digital economy? What are the disruptive factors in ECM that are changing perspectives and requirements?There is a lot going on in the ECM space today – CMIS brings a whole new opportunity to harvest content from the silos out there, Microsoft Sharepoint is delivering basic content services to the masses, the old guard vendors are defocusing and retrenching….We at Nuxeo believe that the future belongs to the…

AIIM published its annual “State of the ECM Industry” market intelligence report earlier this week, and it is a recommended read. Download it directly from the AIIM site here: http://www.aiim.org/Research/ECM-State-of-Industry-2010.aspx. This is a timely report. The ECM industry is in the midst of some interesting shakeups. The ratification of CMIS, the launch of Sharepoint 2010, and some interesting warning signals coming from ECM leaders of the last decade… If I project myself years into the future and put my historian hat on, I’d be circling May 2010 as one of those critical inflection points. Customers are looking for new approaches…

Part 2 in the “Unlearning the FUD Series”, of which Sales Cycle Theatre was Part 1. Another epiphany I’ve had here at Nuxeo – as I understand how an open source approach to ECM development fundamentally changes perspectives towards clients. As we worked on updating our Nuxeo Connect subscription program earlier this year, a few light bulbs went off in my head. It took me some time to put my finger on it, but: “We do not punish our customers for being successful” Nearly all of the legacy ECM vendors derive a substantial chunk of their revenue through the ‘sale’…

Had a most fabulous afternoon today in Manhattan. A very sincere thank you to the organizers and committee members of the New York City AIIM and ARMA Chapters who put on a great joint education event today. The topic? “Open Source ECM…. Hip.. Not Hype”. Joined on the panel by the distinguished Richard McKnight of Alfresco and Bryan Reynolds, CEO of ECM consulting firm Sitrof, I think we all left feeling very enthusiastic about the level of interest in open source ECM, with some fantastic audience questions, comments and interaction. This topic clearly was timely and relevant. My highlights…. Seeing…