Content management projects can range from small and tactical to high budget and strategic, and just about anything in between. One of the common denominators of highly successful and valuable content management projects, wherever they lie on the complexity spectrum, is the careful planning and analysis of the business context and processes prior to the development and deployment of a solution. That’s where Steve Weissman comes in.
Steve Weissman, CIP, ECMm, BPMp, has been in the content technology business for the past 20 years. Currently President of the AIIM New England chapter and a sought-after independent consultant, Steve has … Read more
A purely community driven enterprise-grade Content Management System?
While asking the previous question, I was thinking about how, in the CMS (ECM or WCM) space, we’ve ended up in a situation where Open Source now holds a very important position in the market as opposed to proprietary solutions and is often cited as a major requirement. However, unlike lower levels of the software stack, I’ve also noticed that almost all projects are now backed by a software company and that there are no community driven projects, well, at least none of importance! This was then my next question to … Read more
Balancing community with business
Last week we touched on some initial topics concerning community management, especially how it may be organized internally. But what about the other side of the coin? Ideally, a community has broad support, but garnering it involves looking beyond the sole interest of the business. Or does it? With that in mind, I asked our panel of professionals how community can help, but also sometimes be in opposition to the company that fosters it.
More Pizza, here at a Nuxeo Development Sprint, an event where community members are invited to contribute.
My initial question came down … Read more
Organize!
Have you ever wondered what’s the best way to manage your community? I have, and to some extent I am still figuring it out… I am convinced that not only is community management important, but that it is a key piece of the puzzle for a successful software organization. Community organization promotes your solution to a wider audience where it will be recognized and used on a larger scale.
Engaging the user community is just as important as sales, support, and other the other functions that are your bread and butter. I have always advocated allocating the necessary time … Read more
Put simply, a content management software lives or dies on the strength of its APIs. The API-as-afterthought approach might have been possible in the early days of the web, pre-web 2.0 and pre-social Web revolution. Today however, organizations are not “using content management systems out-of-the-box” so much as they are building content-centric apps to fit their specific needs.
Source: Geek and Poke
In this new, evolving context a content management solution must provide a set of features for reuse and re-purposing. Organizations are under pressure to customize and extend applications to integrate with other Enterprise Applications, as well as with … 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?
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
