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CMIS 1.1: Smoothing the Interoperability between Content Repositories

By Dick Weisinger

With little fanfare or publicity, CMIS 1.1 was announced as an official OASIS standard near the end of May 2013. CMIS stands for Content Management Interoperability Services.   CMIS is an open standard that specifies a standard way to access

Enterprise Content Management: ECM at the Crossroads

By Dick Weisinger

A recent report by the AIIM looks at the current state of the ECM industry.   The AIIM report found that businesses are typically using ECM today for:   78 percent use it for standard document management or a file-share

ECM: Alfresco Workdesk: Focus on Transactional Content and Case File Management

By Dick Weisinger

Alfresco has recently acquired and begun selling the ECM application called Alfresco Workdesk. Formtek, a Gold-Integration partner of Alfresco since 2007, is now trained on WorkDesk and has added it to the list of Alfresco technologies which they support. What is WorkDesk? Alfresco

Facilities Management: Businesses Slowly Move Away From Management-By-Excel

By Dick Weisinger

A recent survey by the Service Works Group in association with the FMA and i-FM, identified emerging trends in the Facilities Management space.  One trend is a move from the use of spreadsheet management to the use of more-comprehensive targeted Facilities

Green Technology: Making the Paperless Resolution for 2013

By Dick Weisinger

The term ‘paperless office’ has been around since the late 1970’s and the introduction of personal computers. Office automation and electronic documents have the potential to significantly reduce the amount of paper documents.  But rather than reduce the amount of