Ed Alexander Consulting » BPM

Has EMC Documentum Lost Its Way?

Ed Alexander — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:47:02 +0000

EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint reveal a vast divide in both resolve and vision. EMC will tell you that Documentum is the obvious choice for enterprise implementations managing very large data and content inventories. EMC begins in the basement (with disk and server) and provides infrastructure that content-able implementations can exploit for the end-users benefit. …

SharePoint Online 2010 Standard is Evolutionary

Ed Alexander — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:08:38 +0000

Microsoft follows a now familiar pattern with evolving technologies. Initial product releases are simplistic and target core functionality only. As the business model and market needs are discovered major releases transform the product into a power player. SharePoint has followed this recipe to a tee and the 2010 release should be considered the first highly …

Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS)

Ed — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:45:13 +0000

I can remember dealing with clients that were struggling with over 100 Lotus Notes/Domino servers just to keep basic collaboration and email up and running… These same clients were installing 40Meg thick clients to access the proprietary dinosaurs that were increasingly strangling their IT departments and slowing response to business needs. Sad, scary stories that led to many career "changes" in those organizations. Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services provides messaging, collaboration, customizable workspaces and infrastructure .

SharePoint 2010 is a Mover and a Shaker

Ed — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:32:20 +0000

SharePoint 2010 provides the necessary infrastructure improvements to solve the issue of unbridled growth (nice to know where the horse is headed too). Properly implemented, SharePoint 2010 should allow large and small companies to create thousands of sites and collections that all share a consistent data model. What happens when products are capable of providing infrastructure and implementation frameworks for companywide IT? IT departments shrink as support and SME needs are consolidated around the new user driven technology.

In-Context Content Creation/Active Governance within CMS Tools

Ed — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:24:48 +0000

I was working with a major pharmaceutical company that wanted to consolidate web content into a single CMS system (in this case Documentum, but later moved on to SharePoint). When the client did their due diligence to discover all the content that had been created and was being maintained they found over 400 internal web sites dedicated to things like bowling and other non-essential topics. Money well spent? Probably not in this economy.