There’s no shortage of predictions for enterprise content management in 2012: ECM will move to the Cloud, mobile and tablet devices will drive product innovation, and social business solutions will increasingly be in demand. These will certainly be key trends in the ECM market this year. But what if 2012 was simply the year that saw usability take priority over technology when it comes to enterprise content management?
In the not-too-distant past, user experience (UX) was considered an annoying afterthought for enterprise application development and deployment. User adoption was often disappointing, and the disconnect between business and IT seemed like … Read more
ECM, WCM, EWCM…the acronyms related to Content Management are growing just as quickly as the technology designed to provide business solutions for your organization. Following an introduction on the topic of Web Content Management during the Lightning Talk session at Nuxeo World 2011, we’ve taken a few moments to sit down with Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer, CMO and Co-Founder of Hippo, and delve further into how the worlds of Enterprise Content Management and Web Content Management co-exist.
CG: We’ve been talking a lot about Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and content technology and as you know, ECM has evolved quite a … Read more
Poorly estimated maintenance cost negatively impacts ROI
On this last post of this series, we will look at different ways to evaluate the real business value of a content management platform technology. This can of course be seen in many different ways, qualitative and quantitative ones, and this article provides insights for that, in order to help any user to make its own business analysis.
Most architects know, or at least suspect, that implementing a platform centric approach to building content-driven applications has some organizational value. Ad-hoc processes, multiple tools and inconsistent practices are rarely in the best interest of … Read more
During the Lightening Talks at Nuxeo World 2011, Julien Stern, CEO & Founder of Cryptolog took a few minutes to share how Cryptolog’s set of tools and services can be integrated into a comprehensive ECM strategy. Today, we have a chance to delve into this subject a little deeper and learn more about how document security plays a pivotal role in the future of content management and go one on one with a man who has helped raise the bar for document data integrity.
CG: Your company provides electronic signature, timestamping and cryptographic archiving solutions. Can you tell us … Read more
Standards matter, but don't be blind
Last but not least in this series of posts, while all software platforms are somehow made on standards, for Standards, most of them are showcasing this as a strong selling point, we will try to explore why standards really matters and try to give some hints on how to look at standards’ support in a content management platform in a pragmatic and meaningful way!
Why Standards
Non-technical users really don’t care about which standards exist and which are emerging. They care that platforms play well together; they want interoperability. They want solutions that can … Read more
Release early, release often
While we talked about deployment capabilities as a strong requirement for ECM platforms, another area very close to that one is development methodology and tools. No doubt there are major opportunities here for whoever wants to develop a content-centric app efficiently. The traditional waterfall model of software project development has definitely demonstrated its limits and new methodologies, as well as new tools, can bring substantial value, to the extent that the platform is well suited to these models and tools!
Modern Development: Agile and Soon in the Cloud
The new requirements of ECM mean that “out … Read more
Laurent Dreuillat at Nuxeo World 2011
We recently caught up with Laurent Dreuillat, Technical Director of the SI Sword Group in France (West Agency). He stays busy managing complex projects with French government agencies, but he was kind enough to take some time on a Friday to answer some questions for CG.
CG: Usually, big systems integrators cover a broad spectrum of projects in many different domains. Sword’s strategy seems to be more focused, centered on Enterprise Content Management and Information Management, and it has grown into a very solid and quite large company. It is rare to find systems … Read more
Benjamin Franklin's early cloud deployment experiments
Our last article of this series was focusing on the requirement to not only support the server side in a Content Management Platform. This article will focus on another requirement, certainly as important in today’s IT landscape: having the ability to run on all environments, including the Cloud.
Running Anywhere, Including the Cloud
Traditional enterprise software was designed to run on premise, and still today, a large share of ECM solutions are running on premise, managed by internal IT operations. In this scenario, it is important to leverage standard middleware. For example, in terms … Read more
supporting client side as much as server side?
In our last post of this series, we saw the need for modularity and flexibility. We will look now at how a platform should not only deal with the server side but also with the client side.
Supporting More Than Just the Server Side
Frequently, developers, architects and project managers evaluating enterprise applications focus on the server side features of the architecture. They examine how business data persistence is implemented, how business logic is designed and what APIs are available for integration. However, client side features are just as important as … Read more
Beyond the global trend towards cloud-based computing technologies, there is a real transformation around how enterprises are managing their IT needs. While much has been said about the cloud and even more left to speculation on how the technology will impact the content management industry, there’s little doubt that taking advantage of the cloud is a strategy that can’t – and shouldn’t — be ignored, no matter how difficult to decode.
Fresh off of the recent announcement of that Nuxeo has taken its enterprise content management platform to the cloud, this post will help decode what enterprise content management … Read more
There’s no shortage of predictions for enterprise content management in 2012: ECM will move to the Cloud, mobile and tablet devices will drive product innovation, and social business solutions will increasingly be in demand. These will certainly be key trends in the ECM market this year. But what if 2012 was simply the year that saw usability take priority over technology when it comes to enterprise content management?
