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e-Discovery: Dramatic Savings with Categorization

By Dick Weisinger

Emails and electronic documents now dominate today’s business communication. As a result, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) includes requirements for how to handle electronically stored information during litigation and regulatory investigations. The process of forensic inspection of electronic…

ECM: Virtual File Systems Target Unstructured Data

By Dick Weisinger

Unstructured data, the documents, files, audio and video that don’t fit well into structured database rows and columns, is growing at an incredible pace across enterprises. In a recent report from the Taneja Group consulting firm titled “Next Generation File…

Alfresco: A Billion-Document Benchmark in 2008?

By Dick Weisinger

Alfresco 1.4 system was benchmarked in 2006 against a system with 10 million documents. At that time the benchmark was made against a dual-processor, dual-core 2.6 MHz Opteron system with 12 GigaBytes. Reasonable hardware, but not really “enterprise class”. But…

ECM: What's in Store for 2009?

By Dick Weisinger

With the economy expected to be down for some time going forward, new twists are ahead in the ECM market. CMS Watch has made some predictions about what we might expect. Expect consolidation, especially around Web Content Management:  WCM companies…

ECM: Alfresco Turns Three

By Dick Weisinger

John Newton and the Open Source Alfresco ECM team are celebrating their third birthday this week. Newton’s Alfresco is the scrappy low-budget high-quality challenger to EMC’s Documentum, a company Newton founded, and other behemoths of the commercial ECM space. In…