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eDiscovery: Five Trends for the New Year

By Dick Weisinger

Clearwell Systems has released a list of the Top Five eDiscovery Trends in 2010.  (Clearwell is an eDiscovery vendor.) One difficulty with vendor-biased lists like these though is that, more often than not, they  correspond closely to the list of…

Technology: Is Software Integration Always Necessary?

By Dick Weisinger

The need to integrate software is often taken as a given.  The benefits from connecting silo-ed repositories and databases can often dramatically increase productivity and consistency of data — and those benefits are very compelling. SOA and Web Service technology…

Content Management: Interoperability API Edges Towards Standardization

By Dick Weisinger

It’s been a little more than a year since Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification was announced last September.  The OASIS CMIS Technical Committee (TC) has recently approved CMIS Version 1.0 as a Committee Draft.  It is now in its…

SaaS and RM: Not Anytime Soon

By Dick Weisinger

The last couple of years have seen growing interest in on-demand computing.  The benefits can be compelling and include shorter development time, elimination of client rollouts, global availability, constant and continual upgrades, fewer internal IT resources required, etc. Certain application…

ECM: Forrester Names Top ECM vendors — Open Source Breaks Through

By Dick Weisinger

In a break from the normal, but then not too much of a surprise, the 2009 4Q Forrester Wave for ECM report includes open source vendor Alfresco in the ranks of the top eight vendors in the ECM arena.  Open…