Archive forJanuary, 2006

Should BPM be a part of ECM?

January 27, 2006 @ 6:15 pm· Filed under Document Management, Enterprise Content Management, Trends, Web Content Management

With all this consolidation happening and niche vendors going down under, this is something that a lot of people are considering. James McGovern had also asked this question sometime back.

Most content management implementations have some kind of workflow requirements. For web content management projects, it is mostly “create-edit-review-publish” paradigm whereas for document centric requirements, it is more involved. There are requirements like scanning,
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Beyond Human Computer Interaction

January 19, 2006 @ 11:32 am· Filed under Enterprise Content Management, Portals, Trends

Kashyap has posted a very interesting take on Human Computer Interaction. In fact, he takes it to a new level and calls it Human Device Interaction (HDI).

Kashyap observes:

The field of HCI is reasonably mature and it is safe to say that the rules of the game are well understood.

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Outstanding questions regarding ECM

January 18, 2006 @ 3:02 pm· Filed under Enterprise Content Management, Web Content Management

James McGovern has raised some very pertinent questions about ECM. I’ve been thinking about them and here are my views on some of those.

Several vendors have came up with the notion of eContent Integration (ECI) that sit on top of ECM platforms. Many vendors in this space are now being acquired. The real question is whether the ECI layer can/should be replaced with say JSR-170. Any thoughts on the pros/cons of using JSR-170 vs ATOM vs SCA vs JBI for this type of functionality?

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Portal or CMS - Which product do you choose?

January 14, 2006 @ 11:50 pm· Filed under Enterprise Content Management, Portals, Web Content Management

So should you use a content management system with delivery capabilities or a portal server with content management features or should you use a totally different products for delivery and content management? This is a question that I’ve faced many times.

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From Vignette to OpenCMS

January 7, 2006 @ 12:08 am· Filed under Enterprise Content Management, Open Source, Product Reviews, Web Content Management

Based on a recent project for redeveloping a Vignette based site using OpenCMS, here are some observations:

OpenCMS is infinitely extensible even though it takes some time to figure out things. So, though there were technical challenges, all of them were sorted out.
One major area in which OpenCMS (and other open source products) lags behind Vignette (and other proprietary products) is the ability to replicate content. This has the following implications:

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