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
According to a study by AIIM, document scanning technologies continue to play a critical role in speeding up work processes: Improved searchability and sharability of business documents is the biggest... 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
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
EventEvolution Management Inc. is pleased to announce that the 2016 DOCUMENT Strategy Forum will be held on May 10-12 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Chicago, IL—returning to the venue where... 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
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
Cloud Labs Kft announces that Cloudifile, its free cloud file encryption client software, launches a Mac OS Beta today. Cloudifile automatically encrypts data for secure cloud-sharing and local file storage.... View More
Upland Software, Inc., a leader in cloud-based Enterprise Work Management applications, today announced that the latest version of its FileBound document and workflow automation application is now available.... 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
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
Recently, I took a breather in the United Kingdom (UK) for a few weeks, midway through the spring conference season that we often complain about but secretly really enjoy. Each conference season—both... View More
Radical transformations in customer communication are underway in almost every industry segment. We heard it firsthand from insurers, banks, service providers, governments and utilities during the 2015... View More