In part one of my series on managed service providers (MSPs), I explained what a managed service is, why you may consider managed services for your enterprise content management (ECM) project, possible... View More
The change in the enterprise content management (ECM) market is a reality. In fact, it’s been happening for some time. ECM has become a service. New vendor landscapes have emerged to support documents... View More
Let’s go back to the basics, since there is a high level of confusion around the concepts of information management, namely, the eternal relationship between data, information, and knowledge. Before... View More
The new enterprise content management (ECM) system has been implemented, users trained, documents migrated, and everyone is happily working. Three months later, the human resources (HR) department needs... View More
There’s a lot of talk about the change in enterprise content management (ECM). There’s change in the name of ECM: One camp wants to call it “Content Services” and another “Intelligent... View More
HubStor Inc., the leading provider of data-aware cloud storage solutions, announced extended support for Microsoft Office 365 with new data protection, archiving, and recovery for Exchange Online. Wit
Text analytics is a rather new concept in enterprise content management (ECM) and document management. Many organizations are using automatic categorization or classification of content, but this is only... View More
It is about time we admit that a single repository for all documents within an enterprise will not be an achievable goal, at least for now. For 17 years, enterprise content management (ECM) and document... View More
Archimed Electronic Content Management (ECM) solutions include the products Elise and Doc Factory which provide businesses comprehensive, integrated tools for content and document management, case management... View More
A few months ago, I wrote about the future disruptors to enterprise content management (ECM), and while the cloud played prominently, my predictions primarily focused on infrastructure as a service (IaaS)—particularly... View More
According to Gartner’s 2016 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, “By 2018, 20% of all business content will be authored by machines.” Reaching that 20% won’t be hard.... View More
Enterprise content management (ECM) used to make sense only for large companies with the size and budgets to make the conversion to digital worthwhile. Now, with the introduction of Xerox DocuShare Flex,... View More
Walk through any expo floor and chances are that you will see a half a dozen vendors touting “content analytics." In document management, it's the cool “new” topic. The problem is that... View More
The first major consolidation in the enterprise content management (ECM) marketplace occurred when IBM bought FileNet in 2006, the first time two major players united to form one large, multi-repository... View More
e-Spirit Inc., maker of the FirstSpirit Content Experience Hub, and Samsung SDS Europe Ltd., provider of IT solutions, today announced a strategic partnership focused on delivering a jointly developed... View More
Today, organizations are increasing the deployment of electronic content management (ECM) technologies to support information governance (IG)/records and information management (RIM) goals and to improve... View More
A lot has been written about the benefits of enterprise content management (ECM). Although most of what I read is correct, it usually only shows a part of the whole subject. So, I wanted to clarify the... View More
There has been some grumbling in the enterprise content management (ECM) space in recent days. It started with a quiet announcement on Gartner’s blog stating, “ECM is now dead (kaput, finite,... View More
This is typically the time when companies begin to prepare for the coming year. One of the key unknowns is how new approaches, or technologies, will disrupt the status quo. To prepare for the new year,... View More
Traditionally, the focus of electronic document solutions has been on the large, paper-intensive processes that exist in the front office. The common back-office challenges of contract management, employee... View More
