Recently, Robin Bew, Chief Economist in the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research division of The Economist magazine, posted the results of an EIU survey of large businesses. With such a complex system as the world economy, I always have my doubts as to how useful research like this is, but an interesting statistic called […]
Information Architected Market Alert (IAM Alert): On July 28th, 2010, Adobe announced it’s intention to acquire Switzerland-based Day Software for approximately $240 Million USD. (see press release from Adobe) The Past, Present and Future of Adobe With the acquisition of Day Software (highly scalable, standards and open source-oriented [not as deployment/sales model, but as underpinnings]), […]
Readers of my work know that one of my more favorite aspects of ECM is content delivery. Along with mobility, the ability to re-purpose modular “chunks” of content in a variety of formats and contexts significantly enhances the value derived from ECM, increases the effectiveness of communication and quite frankly is just plain fun. I […]
It has been weeks since I blogged, or even Tweeted on a regular basis. Where have I been? Dan and I are on the road, consulting on a very complex, grand and most interesting ECM project. A Fortune 100 company that remains successful and growing in spite of the economy, has managed to achieve such […]
Last week the Enterprise 2.0 Conference was held right here in my hometown, Boston MA. As usual, the E2.0 community was abuzz with Twitter (#e2conf). But, now, with the show a happy memory, many of us attendees reflect more deeply than 140 characters allows, in our blog posts. The blogosphere is ripe with conference coverage. […]
Two weeks ago I spoke on a webinar hosted by SpringCM. My presentation focused on how to take a structured and methodical approach to defining and executing an ECM strategy. You can download the slides I used slides below, and/or if you prefer listen to the recorded webinar here. ECM Strategy Development View more presentations […]
Even if you are not a techie or ECMer, it would have been hard to miss all the marketing and press that has surrounded the iPad lately. Numerous articles have weighed in on whether or not Apple will be a success both long and short term, what this means to Amazon, etc. Relevant? yes. Interesting? […]
On February 23, 2010, I was a featured speaker on the SpringCM webinar entitled “Making SharePoint Work.” The slides from the presentation can be found here. SharePoint Extending into the Cloud View more presentations from Carl Frappaolo. Additionally you can listen to the archive of the webinar. In the webinar, I reference a survey and […]
Yesterday I tweeted (@carlfrappaolo) about a Boston Globe on ECM search company, Endeca. I was going to let it go at that; congratulations Endeca for getting the attention of the Sunday Globe and for having the popular press cover the fact that search is more than just findability and Google, that search can be used […]
In 1964, Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase ” The medium is the message.” I have often quoted McLuhan in my writings and presentations, in agreement. But, I fear far too many take his message the wrong way, which can and has lead to serious repercussions. Yesterday I was watching to a video podcast interview between […]
