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ECM Trends: Faceted Search Improves Findability

By Dick Weisinger

A new buzz word has entered the ECM lexicon:  Faceted Search.  Alan Pelz-Sharpe of CMSWatch names faceted search as his number two expected trend in ECM for 2010.  Alfresco is also considering added faceted search capabilities to their Open Source…

Social Media: Dilemma for the World of Finance

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses have been trying to come to grips with how to deal with Social Media/Networking and the workplace.  Financial institutions, even more so than other types of business because of their greater regulatory oversight, have been unsure of what to…

Records Management: How do RM and DM differ?

By Dick Weisinger

There is a lot of confusion about what the differences are between Records Management and Document Management. CMSWire recently summarized some of the differernces between the two types of systems: Document Management Records Management Stored Objects A Document is stored…

Engineering Data: Online Database of Vehicle Schematics

By Dick Weisinger

There is an online database of blueprints with more than 37,000 blueprints and drawings.  The database includes trucks, planes, ships, tanks, and other categories like science fictions.  If you haven’t registered, all the blueprints are available at 500×500 resolution.  After…

ECM: Avoiding Paper in Processes that Require Signatures

By Dick Weisinger

Digital signatures are used to guarantee that an electronic document is authentic.  The signature of the document ensures that the person who says they created the document actually did, and it also ensures that no other person has altered the…