Alan Pelz-Sharpe writes about CMS Watch's shift from "ECM" to "document management". To quote: ECM is an aspirational term for many, one that suggests a single layer/platform/system/methodology that will address your enterprise content needs no matter how complex, diverse, or voluminous. Some major vendors promote this approach, and buyers for ...
Articles tagged: ecm
Christening your ECM project
Alan Pelz-Sharpe writes about naming your ECM project. To quote: It has always surprised me how many firms name their internal ECM applications and systems after the product that it runs on. For example, I have come across many organizations over the years that tell me things like-
Announcing the ECM Maturity Model
CMS Watch, Wipro, Hartman Communicatie, and Smigiel Consulting Group have published Version 1.0 of an Enterprise Content Management Maturity Model (ECM3 in short). To quote: Like all maturity models, it is partly descriptive and partly prescriptive. You can apply the model to audit, assess, and explain your current state, as ...
Battling ECM and E2.0
Alan Pelz-Sharpe has written a post about the conflict between ECM and Enterprise 2.0. To quote: For the past year or so there seems to have been a battlefield of sorts emerging between proponents of social networking and all things E2.0 and the more "traditional" proponents of ECM. The difference ...
Green IT versus blue sky
Kas Thomas has written an article on the challenges in centralising content management to save the environment. To quote: More and more these days, content lives at the edges of the network, on laptops and desktop machines and collaboration servers (and in SQL Server instances that support a group's SharePoint ...
You don’t need an ECM strategy
Janus Boye has written a post arguing that you don’t need an ECM strategy. To quote: Over the last years, I’ve heard consultants, analysts, experts, gurus and even some vendors preach that strategy is the vital ingredient that’s too often missing in many organisations. For ECM projects, I certainly agree ...