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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…

Will BPMN 2.0 make BPEL irrelevant?

By Dick Weisinger

As technology is speeding up, the lifecycle of standards is shrinking.  Business Process Execution Language or BPEL is one good example.  BPEL has its origins in competing standards sponsored by IBM and Microsoft, WSFL and Xlang.   The two languages were…

Retention Management is Central to Corporate Record and Information Management Policies

By Dick Weisinger

Compliance comes in many flavors.  In the US, regulations include Sarbanes-Oxley, 5015.2, HIPAA, and SEC Section 17a.  Central to these many different kinds of compliance is the concept of Retention Management.  Retention management refers to company policies that are created to…

Ad Hoc Workflow and ECM

By Dick Weisinger

The terms Ad-hoc workflow and Ad-hoc routing describe a type of business process that defies easy capture and description.  They refer to business processes that are created in a dynamic and flexible manner.  An Ad-hoc workflow describes the creative work process…

Adobe's Flex Challenges Web 2.0's AJAX

By Dick Weisinger

After a year of consolidating Macromedia assets, Adobe is beginning to move forward aggresively with their FLEX product.  Yesterday they announced an updated FLEX 2.0 with a much more attractive pricing model. As an Adobe Solution Network Developer member, this announcement…