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Blogs and Wikis to Disrupt Content Management & Collaboration?

October 2, 2005 / Frank Gilbane / 3 Comments

The question is from Charlie Wood’s entry where he references a couple of reports by James Governor on Traction beating Lotus out at a European pharmaceutical organization, and Movable Type beating Lotus out at Alcatel. There is a free case study written by Suw Charman for the former on her blog.

Socialtext also has some increasingly interesting enterprise apps at e.g., Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Nokia, and has recent investment and a new board member from SAP.

We’ll be looking at some more detail on exactly what organizations like these are doing with blog and wiki tools in a follow-on report to Lauren’s earlier article, so let us know of any interesting case studies.

In answer to Charlie’s question, I would say ‘yes’ to collaboration and ‘partially’ to content management.

Gilbane Boston Conference

September 8, 2005 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

The brochure for our Fall conference is at the printer, but there is a PDF available and the site with the program schedule, session descriptions, exhibitors-to-date, registration, etc., has been live for a few weeks.
Note that the CM Pros Fall Summit is once again co-located with our event, so it will be a jam-paked few days.

WinFS Beta Released

September 6, 2005 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

It is good to see that MS is plugging away at this and now providing a way to really take a look at it. I am not qualified to comment on its technical merits, but the idea is important (to content management but more to computing in general) and something we have been watching for a long time. Dan Farber’s entry on this release has some useful links, and Wikipedia has an accessible intro to WinFS

Oracle, Context Media and the EII or ECI Market

August 3, 2005 / Frank Gilbane / 1 Comment

Although not officially announced, a number of trade publications have reported on Oracle’s acquisition of Content Media, and Tony Byrne succinctly captures what is of immediate interest to followers of the content management market.

What we started calling EII (Enterprise Information Integration) a few years ago, and what many vendors called ECI (Enterprise Content Integration) remains one of the biggest challenges organizations face – too big to be served by a small niche market, as evidenced by Oracle’s move, as well as by the earlier IBM and EMC acquisitions. For a more in-depth look at the problem, players and the market see our article on What is Enterprise Information Integration (EII)?

ECM Acquisition Week

June 23, 2005 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

Lot’s of merger and acquisition news this week!

Hummingbird & RedDot
Trados & SDL
Infodata & McDonald Bradley
Stellent & e-Onehundred Group
and also a consortium merger: Compliance Consortium & OCEG.

Microsoft does the right thing with Office & XML

June 2, 2005 / Frank Gilbane / 0 Comments

Microsoft announced that XML will be the default file format for Office 12. I’ll look more at the details and what this means to OpenOffice etc. when I get a chance, but this is certainly great news and another major step forward for XML in general and Microsoft’s support for it. It looks like Microsoft has addressed (full Microsoft press release) the main concerns that critics exposed during the OpenOffice debate we have been covering here and in our conferences. Tim is impressed!
Update: Dan Farber has some additional info from Microsoft.
Update 2: Dan points to info from Rick Schaut on Office 12 Mac XML support.

OpenDocument an OASIS standard, but …

May 23, 2005 / Frank Gilbane / 1 Comment

It is excellent news that OASIS has approved OpenDocument as a standard. Hopefully it will also become an ISO standard. However, neither of these mean that it is necessarily the right approach for you. A single schema, no matter how well-designed, will not work for everyone. James Governor is quoted in the release: “One key to success will be the royalty free status of the spec; there are no financial penalties associated with developing to it.” Very true, but Microsoft’s schema is also royalty and cost free, and I believe they have committed (contractually even I think…?) e.g., to the EU, to keep it that way. See more on this here and here.

DITA Breakfast Seminar in Amsterdam

May 19, 2005 / Frank Gilbane / 1 Comment

A complimentary breakfast seminar and discussion:
“Technology Directions: Driving DITA Adoption in Europe”, has been added to next week’s conference in Amsterdam on Friday, May 27, 8 – 10:00 a.m. IBM, Idiom and Nokia will present on DITA and its practical applications, while leading an open discussion focused specifically on the adoption of DITA-based publishing initiatives in Europe through establishing regular meetings, networking opportunities and education events. Panelists from Thursday’s presentation will be on hand, with the addition of Indi Leipa, senior information architect, Nokia.