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ECM: Governance Lacking around Unstructured Data

By Dick Weisinger

Unstructured data refers to data that does not fit neatly into a structured schema of a database. It typically refers to files or documents that include things  like e-mail files, word-processing text documents, PowerPoint presentations, JPEG and GIF image files,

ECM: Alfresco Threatens SharePoint

By Dick Weisinger

In an interesting twist, Open Source Alfresco has announced a beta offshoot of their Alfresco Enterprise Content Management repository that is compatible with Microsoft SharePoint. It’s included with the Alfresco 3.0 Labs release. Alfresco was helped in engineering SharePoint support

ECM: Blow it Up?

By Dick Weisinger

AIIM coined the term Enterprise Content Management in 2000. Over the last eight years the scope of ECM has grown. ECM has grown so big that no one company does every category of ECM well and companies like IBM and

ECM/SaaS: On-Demand ECM Open Up Workflow Barriers

By Dick Weisinger

12 percent of companies survey in 2007 are planning to adopt an on-demand content management application. Their reasons: on-demand applications are faster, cheaper, easier to deploy, ansd offer greater flexibility. That’s according to a survey from Nucleus Research and reported

ECM: Document-centric SOA

By Dick Weisinger

SOA is tool for knitting together processes into something that is much more solid that the sum of its components. SOA services often expose data stored in structured data repositories like relational databases. But SOA can also unite unstructured data