I was one of about 30 people to be fortunate enough to attend one of the more interesting sessions at EMC World for Documentum.  Interesting in that it was all about implementing Web 2.0 solutions on top of the platform.  Fortunate enough in that, for some reason, the session was scheduled for the last session of the last day.  This meant for east coasters like me taking a red-eye home after losing more money at the tables.  

“Taking Advantage of Social Computing with Documentum” presented EMC’s architecture in a light that would use it’s libraries for that would allow vendors to develop WIKIs, BLOGs and 360 networks that take advantage of the platform.   (more…)

EMC World was exhausting but very productive and a good time was had by everyone I spoke to. By all accounts from the many postings I’ve read this has been far more informative and newsworthy than in recent years for CMA. (more…)

Three days of EMC World has had both its highs and lows.  I learned some great new things, reconnected with old friends, and made new friends.   I thought I’d share my closing thoughts.

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The biggest surprise of EMC World so far was presented in the Tuesday keynote but for some reason the buzz wasn’t going around.  I was asked last night if I had seen the Magellan demo but as I had only arrive that afternoon I had missed it.  I also didn’t know that the keynotes were being published on YouTube.  Had the question come from anyone else I would have thought “ho hum”, but when this gentleman makes an enthusiastic statement you pay attention.  So I had my quest for Wednesday.  What I found brought me back to Documentum circa 1999.   

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Well I’ve been roaming around EMC World for the past two days as an “Independent”.  Unfortunately Lee is finding himself tethered to a booth but tells me he’s having a great time talking tech with everybody and playing with the BMOC mascots. 

The conference in general has been good and I’m learning some new things that I plan to add as posts of their own.  Expect an update on EMC’s OEM strategy for the CEVA series.  But I thought I’d give an overview of the conference in general.  My comments will come from a CM&A perspective rather than ECM in general.  Pie’s been doing a great job commenting on the individual sessions, so I won’t focus there.

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I was inspired by two recent posts. Pie’s invitation to meet him at EMC World and Chuck Hollis’ post on transparency in blogging.

I’ll be manning the Armedia booth (#336) at EMC World in Las Vegas this year and I’d love for you to stop by and visit. I’d like to tell you that I have lofty goals to investigate the inner workings of EMC and uncover some remarkable technical insight. The truth is I’ll be there for 4 days of shameless self promotion. I hope you’ll stop by and chat a while about how much we miss Workspace, swap war stories and talk about how bright our futures look with all things EMC. (and SharePoint)

Marko will be prowling the floor in his BMOC shirt. I’ll try to come up with some sort of fitting reward for anyone who hunts him down and says something witty and insulting.

At heart, I’m still a geek though and I hope to learn quite a lot this year. I am most looking forward to learning as much as I can about what they plan on doing with eRoom, what their strategy really is for SharePoint and seeing what others are doing with Documentum and RIA’s.

We’ll see you in Vegas.

Lee and I were talking and one of the most common questions we hear from clients implementing or managing a content management system is how to calculate a return on their system.  Companies end up spending hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars on a CMS system with no idea of how to track the value it is bringing to their organization.

There is no one simple formula to calculate ROI for a CMS system.  Instead what we have discovered is there are a series of calculations one can make to understand the costs and saving of the system.   These numbers can then be used to calculate the return on the implementation.  To introduce these calculations we decided to start a series of posts, with this being the inaugural issue.  Being the first one we’ll start with a simple, yet regularly asked question, how much storage do I need?

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I am amazed at how (at least in public) old time “Documentum” people continue to be dismissive of Open Text. I’ve written here before that it seemed that OT’s acquisition strategy and close ties to Microsoft seemed at odds with a takeover bid but In case you haven’t noticed, Open Text is making money. A lot of it. With a market cap approaching 1.9 billion and license revenue up, they are trending much better than Documentum and it is  just too much cash to ignore. (more…)