I bet you are thinking this article is about breaking down silos of information using integration. In most cases, you would be right, but this time, I am going to be discussing the use of content analytics.... View More
Microsoft’s SharePoint enterprise content management platform is everywhere. An estimated 80% of the Fortune 500 use it in one form or another. Yet, in our experience, only about one-third of companies... View More
I recently ran across a blog by Michael Fitzgerald, a senior analyst at the research and consulting firm Celent, commenting on millennials and their influence on today’s customer experience in the... View More
A few weeks back, at yet another conference, I watched a presentation about a coding club for young people: an "after school," extra-curricular activity where popular coding frameworks are taught so... View More
Everyone is talking about information governance (IG) and how it can be used to manage the rapid pace of electronic information growth. IG is defined by Gartner as, “The specification of decision
| #8 TOP READ — Customer preference is about doing business with the customer—in a way that works for the customer. So, why do most conversations about customer preference almost instantly... View More
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) technology that integrates multi-stakeholder requirements on a single platform is often held out as the holy grail of GRC—especially by GRC vendors. Nevertheless,... View More
Many industries have software vendors who have created specific line-of-business applications to perform particular tasks. These tasks could be as simple as generating a response to an inbound customer... View More
In a recent online debate presented by The Economist arguing “Should companies do most of their computing in the cloud?” noted security, privacy and cyber-terrorism expert Bruce Schneier highlighted... View More
This marks my third year attending the DOCUMENT Strategy Forum (DSF), and each year, I learn something new and talk to interesting people. Some of the ideas are not new, but I did come away with some changed... View More
Whether you’re in insurance, government or any other financial industry sector, the millennial generation has put every industry on high alert and forced executives to rethink their strategies enterprise-wide.... View More
It is fascinating that more and more people are going to universities to gain specialized skills in all sorts of different areas, as well as moving onto master’s and doctorate degrees, which require... View More
It has become popular to disparage the early, mainstream enterprise content management (ECM) companies like FileNet, OpenText and Documentum. The typical comments are along these lines: “They failed... View More
In a previous post, I talked about defining the value of your information assets in terms of revenue—how the business makes its money. Well, the opposite is also equally important: the negative costs... View More
When it comes to the decision-making process, Coach Jimmy Johnson has some good advice. He says, “Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to... View More
| #1 TOP READ — Software as a service (SaaS), the advancement of scanning and printing capabilities and even mobile technologies are playing a vital role in the evolution of the document outsourcing... View More
In a recent conversation with a vice president, he threw his hands up in frustration as he told me how exasperated he was trying to figure out the cause of a customer crisis. He pointed at his email screen... View More
Barcode technology was created in the 1940s and has really taken off in adoption rates ever since the 1970s. Today, it’s widely used in industries like retail, transportation, healthcare, logistics,... View More
Watch this short video with our Editor Allison Lloyd for this quick review of Gartner's 2015 Magic Quadrant for the CRM Customer Engagement Center and the trends for customer engagement... View More
When a vendor acquires another product and puts (vendors will say "integrate") that tool within an existing “suite,” it usually comes with a key side effect: overlapping features across multiple... View More
