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Top 10 Trends in ECM

By Dick Weisinger

Here are 10 top trends in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space: Consolidation.  IBM/Filenet, Oracle/Stellent, Open Text/Hummingbird/Red Dot, EMC/Documentum/Captiva.  I’ve written about the consolidation trends here and here and here. Compliance.  Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FDA CPR-21, SEC 17a-4, and risk compliance are examples

Formtek + Dynatrek collaborate to unite Structured and Unstructured Data Sources

By Dick Weisinger

       Today Formtek and Dynatrek announced an agreement to collaborate in the creation of enterprise solutions that combine the expertise of the two companies in the areas of structured and unstructured data management.  Dynatrek, headquartered in Tokyo, has long-term expertise

Putting your finger on what Content Management is

By Dick Weisinger

There’s been a number of articles and blogs over the last week that show that the definition of ‘Content Management’ has become blurred and is continuing to change.  Jim Rapoza at eWeek says that things like collaboration, portals and wikis are ouside

Data Access up in the Air

By Dick Weisinger

Two announcements over the last couple of days stand in an interesting contrast to each other.  One is Google’s announcement of Google WiFi and the availability of free WiFi access across all of the city of Mountain View.  The second is Boeing’s announcement

Engineering ECM can help connect Engineering to Business

By Dick Weisinger

One would expect that an Engineering Enterprise Content Management ECM system would be used to store engineering documents.  And of course it does.  An engineering repository for electronic documents is agnostic to the authoring application and the electronic file format that data is