One of the items our Documentum and Alfresco customers constantly struggle with is setting up their folder taxonomy in such a way that the taxonomy minimizes the requirement to jump between folders or open up search screens when performing a specific task within a folder. One of the very successful additions to our High Performance […]
Thoughts on the 2012 Alfresco Roadmap
Last month, Alfresco updated the 2012 Product Roadmap on the Alfresco Wiki, providing a rough outline of things to come for Alfresco. Aside from the core repository and Share interface, cloud and mobile are obviously a huge focus for this year. The following are some thoughts on some of the more interesting enhancements planned for 2012. […]
Documentum – EMC World/Momentum 2012 – TSG Recap
Thanks to all subscribers for making this one of our most successful weeks with the blog. We always get lots of feedback that our take on announcements and learning sessions at EMC World/Momentum is our most popular topic. Also, it was great making new friends face to face who opened with “I really like your […]
EMC World 2012 – Breakfast Discussion – The Partner and Solution Dilemma
With Rick Devenuti’s keynote focused on solutions, I had an interesting conversation over breakfast with some IIG consultants that was worth a post. Skipping the VMWare Keynote so I had some time to think it through.
EMC World 2012 – Rick Devenuti Keynote – Purchase of Syncplicity – Monday – May 21, 2012
One of the more telling presentations of EMC World is the IIG Keynote by Rick Devenuti. Typically the overall theme of the conference is presented with all of the presentations later building or supporting the theme. The biggest announcement this year was EMC’s purchase of Syncplicity but that wasn’t until the end of the keynote. […]
EMC World 2012 – Day 0 – EMC Commits to Documentum
The big discussion yesterday during the partner meetings was Joe Tucci’s commitment to Documentum. While there was only a small mention of IIG during Joe’s keynote today (Monday), in yesterday’s sessions Joe, at least through his statements, put concerns about the long-term future of IIG with EMC to rest.
Documentum Client Briefing – Final Agenda – June 7th – University of Chicago Gleacher Center in Chicago
TSG will be holding our 5th annual client briefing on June 7th, at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center from 9 to 5. Agenda will include EMC World Recap, State of Enterprise Content Management discussion lead by Doculabs, Client Survery Presentation and Benchmarking, Mobile Product Demonstrations and case studies along with TSG Product Roadmaps. If […]
Documentum/IIG Q1 Earnings – Down 4% – Thoughts on potential sale of IIG Division
EMC had a conference call on earnings on April 19th. While overall news for EMC is excellent – (grew revenue 11% year-over-year this quarter with non-GAAP EPS up 19% and free cash flow up 67%) – the news for IIG was something different (revenue down 4%). Previous posts about possible sale of the under-performing IIG […]
ECM Ownership at Successful Organizations
While working on a 2012 roadmap and strategy for a client, I was asked “How do successful organizations deploy and manage ECM systems?” Since it’s a question worth some thought, I took the opportunity to conduct an informal survey of TSG account managers. What follows are observations about what we see working at clients when […]