Q&A with Julien Stern, CEO & Founder of Cryptolog

Julien SternDuring 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

About Standards

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

Requirements and Challenges for a Modern Content Platform #5 – Agile

Release early, release often

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

Q&A with Laurent Dreuillat, ECM Guru in France

Laurent Dreuillat, Technical Director, Sword

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

Requirements and Challenges for a Modern Content Platform #4 – Running Anywhere, Including the Cloud

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

Requirements and Challenges for a Modern Content Platform #3 – Supporting More Than Just the Server Side

supporting client side as much as server side

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

Content Management Platforms in the Cloud: What it really means

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

Requirements and Challenges for a Modern Content Platform #2 – Providing Modularity and Extensibility

Challenges of a modern content platformWhile we saw in our last post, as a primary requirement and challenge, the need to really enable the building of content-driven processes and applications, we’ll look now and in the next posts of this serie at some more technical requirements.

Providing Modularity and Extensibility

No vendor can anticipate every use case that must be supported for managing enterprise content. New content types, standards and business models are constantly being developed; therefore, it is important to select an ECM platform that is architected for interoperability, customization and extension – not something all vendors support. Lack of extensibility can have … Read more