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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 Access Services will Re-Shape Application Development in 2010

Ed Alexander — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:34:01 +0000

With the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010 and Access 2010 the barrier to complex application development in the SharePoint platform will be simplified to point and click. Do you remember the days when an access DB could satisfy departmental solution needs? Those days are returning in 2010 and carry significant advantages to those who opt for SharePoint Online.

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.

Free CMS Tools are Changing Client Expectations…

Ed Alexander — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:15:03 +0000

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".