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Content Management: CEVAs – Content Enabled Vertical Applications

By Dick Weisinger

In an attempt to describe information-heavy applications that focus on a specific area or industry, Gartner coined the term CEVA (Content enabled vertical application) a few years back.  CEVAs are are a new generation of content applications that are now…

Content Management: Privacy Considerations When Managing Data

By Dick Weisinger

Content Management systems are typically designed and built around capabilities like categorization, search, and accessibility.  These goals of openness and data sharing on the surface seem to be at odds with the ability to include and secure personally identifiable information…

Engineering Data Management: Building Information Modeling (BIM)

By Dick Weisinger

The latest buzz in the architectural and building design sector is BIM — Building Information Modeling.  BIM is souped-up 3D building design software.  The BIM model includes all building and design data, geometry and geographic information, a quantity list, and…

ECM: CMIS Spec On Track For Year End

By Dick Weisinger

CMSWire is reporting that the CMIS spec for ECM repository interoperability is on track and still expected before year end.  That’s great news for the ECM community. The CMIS Technical Committee met in early August for three days to discuss…

Records Management: Obstacles in Getting It Right

By Dick Weisinger

Less than 20 percent of records managers have confidence that they would be able to adequately respond to an eDiscovery request.  That’s the finding of a joint survey from Forrester Research and ARMA International.  Most managers felt that their response…