Category Archives: Documentum

EMC|Documentum Responds to SharePoint Popularity

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Ed

This video goes a long way to describe how EMC views SharePoint as a competitor. Will SharePoint 2010 change the ability for Documentum to ride along? Continue reading →

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In-Context Content Creation/Active Governance within CMS Tools

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Ed

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. Continue reading →

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Free CMS Tools are Changing Client Expectations…

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Ed Alexander

Many PHP based CMS tools are now available for hosted web applications and provide many of the basic features found in SharePoint and Documentum WebTop. While it isn’t surprising to see folks attempt to build out a high quality, feature rich, affordable solution these days, there is an interesting twist on the story. Most of the open CMS tools have focused more on “composition” capabilities rather than extending core library services. In a nut shell, today you can register a domain, pay for hosting, select one of many CMS tools pre-installed by the host provider and create your web presence or application by simply clicking through the UI. Let’s equate “Composition” with “No-Code Solution”. Continue reading →

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