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April 24, 2005
Future of Content Management debate in Amsterdam
Our opening keynote panel at our Amsterdam conference on 25 May, The Future of Content Management will be looking at strategic technology issues businesses, governments and NGOs need to be thinking about. Our panel is made up of technology executives who are responsible for a huge number of installed tools, and for strategic technology development at their respective firms. There will certainly be strong differences of opinion, but where this panel agrees on something, it will be worth knowing.
Some of the questions (with a few links to some of our views) we expect to ask the panel are:
- There is a lot of debate about ECM (enterprise content management) suites vs. individual content applications. What is an "ECM suite", and which approach makes the most sense, and why?
- The proliferation of content applications and repositories has created a huge integration challenge. How will this get resolved? And when?
- How will blog, wiki, and RSS technology affect content management applications?
- Will taxonomies or "folksonomy" tagging technologies have a major impact on future CMS applications?
- What is a content platform? Is it a repository? an index? a database, a file system? Does the concept of a content platform even even make sense? Will Longhorn's WinFS change the game?
- Are Portals dead for good? If so, what will take their place?
- How will compliance requirements affect content technology, or digital/enterprise rights management products?
- How will open source content management related software affect future content management implementations? How should it?
- Are some open source software technologies more appropriate for enterprise content applications than others? If so, which ones and why?
- Where in the software stack is the best place to provide basic content management functionality, e.g., management of content elements with attributes and metadata?
- What percentage of enterprise content do you estimate is currently stored in XML? How do you see this changing in the next 12 -18 months? How will this affect technology development?
- How will enterprise search and content management technology be integrated in the next 12 - 18 months?
- What will be the most exciting content technology in the next 12 - 18 months?
If you have a question you would like to see us address, comment on this post, or send me an email.
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Posted by Frank Gilbane at April 24, 2005 4:50 PM
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From John Newton:
At a glance, I would say that there are three key issues facing a number of enterprises today:
- Is content management a commodity? What really is the difference between all the different offerings that are available today? If there is a difference, is it really a difference in category (web content management vs. document management) rather than true competitive advantage?
- If it is a commodity, what role will open source play in that commoditization? We have already seen Linux overtake all other Unix variants in popularity. Jboss is on the verge of claiming dominance in app servers. What is the implication in content management. You already have some sessions addressing this. (although not the dominant players in the space.)
- Web service promises to change enterprise computing. Content management vendors are largely silent on this. In fact, they should be at the heart of the change. Records management is a perfect receptacle for a lot of web services based transactions. Content in web sites should be served up increasingly from web services rather than copied in place from one site to another to be served up to end consumers of information. I think this may have tremendous implications for standards as the only way to get the Java and Microsoft worlds to communicate content.
-john
Posted by: Anonymous at April 29, 2005 6:40 AM
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