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ECM: Trends in 2008

By Dick Weisinger

AIIM has announced their list of top ten ECM trends for 2008. AIIM is the professional organization that sponsors vendor activities around ECM, a term that was coined by AIIM in 2000. Their list seems to be ‘right-on’: Microsoft SharePoint

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: 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

ECM: Top ECM Trends for 2008

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 ECM for the masses MOSS 2007 still has holes, but long-term Microsoft could become very strong in small and medium sized businesses Open Source ECM Alfresco continues to roll out impressive features like WCM Alfresco steams past