ECM Bulletin
Content Management predictions for 2012
Every year's end sees its list of predictions for the year to come. That's no different for the content management market.
The Amplexor team has scanned the web for interesting predictions regarding the Enterprise Content Management space in 2012.
LucidWorks: open source enterprise search
Finding exactly what you’re looking for as quickly as possible – it makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? Companies everywhere are seeing their data growing and being saved in different sources and places, in different formats and with specific security settings. Finding the correct piece of information isn’t getting any easier and can mean lots of wasted search time. So a good enterprise search system can result in significant money savings over the long term.
The future of Drupal: Distributions?
Drupal is a success, there can be no doubt about that. Millions of websites are running on it. According to estimates, between five and ten million websites are powered by Drupal.
Getting things done with Adaptive Case Management
The evolution from railway tracks to guardrails
Modelling an unpredictable business process is impossible. Or is it? Learn more about Adaptive Case Management (ACM) in this article.
Implementing Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 - nine key points
The Microsoft SharePoint platform has seen great uptake since its launch. Indeed, SharePoint is reportedly Microsoft’s fastest-growing server product in terms of revenue.
Product Review: the new SDL Tridion 2011 Web Content Management System
The new SDL Tridion 2011 has arrived at last! Since its acquisition by SDL in 2007, the Tridion platform has seen little in the way of innovation. But its product developers have been doing their homework. As a result, the platform has been completely renewed. Lots of features have also been added, once more making SDL Tridion the best of its breed.
Is Open Source passé?
At Amplexor, we are working with both commercial proprietary software and open source software for the realization of enterprise content management projects. Our expertise and neutrality towards both worlds explains why a lot of organisations turn to us to get advice about the respective pros and cons.
But last year or so, the number of inquiries on this specific topic seemed to be fading.
Enterprise Search: where do we go from here?
About five years ago, Enterprise Search was really hot. It was on almost every CIO’s radar, and leading vendors like Autonomy, Endeca, FAST and Verity were in high demand. Everybody agreed that organizations were drowning in massive amounts of digital content - from within and outside the enterprise. Different studies even showed that knowledge workers were losing up to 8 hours a week by searching for information to do their daily job. This definitely was a problem that needed solving, and out went numerous Requests for Proposals to the Enterprise Search vendors. Five years on, findability still is a major issue: Enterprise Search projects have caused a lot of headaches and frustrations within many organisations.
So what could we have learned from all this?
Mobile Document Management & Collaboration
The overwhelming success of the Apple iPhone has certainly caused a massive wave of innovation in the area of mobile applications and content. Add to that the explosive growth of Google Android based smartphones and the arrival of Microsoft Windows Mobile 7, and you’ll realize that there will be a significant shift in the way we interact with content and applications in the years to come.
So what about mobile document management? While it’s not exactly comfortable to read an MS Word file or review an Excel spreadsheet on your smartphone, it might come in handy to be able to do so.
The Web Content Management vendor market anno 2010
The Web Content Management software market has been quite stable in 2009. Which actually is a good result considering the economic downturn of the last 18 months. As a matter of fact, many people expected some kind of shake-out in the WCM market; with over a thousand WCM software solutions to choose from, the WCM-business is still a crowded, scattered environment and the vast majority of the players are relatively small companies with less than 50 employees.