Data Conversion

Okay so another year comes to an end and while we welcome the new year, here's a look at some of the themes (in a random order) of the year gone by that might have an impact on the Content Technologies next year. Verticalized Applications Content Management Systems as horizontal solutions have been there for long and most known vendors provide similar features.

When I read about this here, I initially thought that it's yet another incarnation of what Fatwire used to call Integration Centre. But then I noticed that as part of this platform, they have included an EMC Documentum connector with plans of more such connectors. I recently heard

Alfresco and Adobe announced a new partnership in which Adobe will embed Alfresco's ECM in its LiveCycle ES. This will create an offering that provides a more complete solution integrating Content Management with Document Composition (or Document Output Management), something about which I have written

There are enough statistics floating around that show big numbers for Software as a Service (SaaS). Many people are interested in experimenting with SaaS because of promised cost savings. So

2007 has been a good year for portal and content technologies. Here's a summary of some themes that became popular and will probably be discussed in 2008 as well. Web 2.0: There's nothing new about it as we've been seeing the impact of web 2.0 for quite sometime now. What's new is the fact that Web 2.0 is also increasingly becoming

Next week, I will be at AIIM, participating in a panel on Convergence moderated by Tony Byrne. Here are some of the things that I've been thinking about convergence. They are not in any particular order (as

There is a funny online video ad that was sent to me via a Microsoft newsletter about two programming interns and their cubical wars. Yes, it did strike a chord with me harkening back to my early days when I was a fresh out of school programmer who did partake in some of the usual cubicle pranks. Someday I'll get back at Jim for taping my phone so that when I pick up the receiver, it keeps ringing! Here

In my last couple of assignments, I've noticed a trend. Clients who are considering implementing a CMS or Portal product have started putting more focus on a particular set of functionalities among their requirements. These requirements go under the category of "flexibility" and require that instead of using a specific feature of the product, it should be possible to decouple it from the product

Yesterday, Red Hat announced that it will acquire JBoss. A couple of things that come to my mind though:

1. Impact on Proprietary software: Lot of enterprise customers were deploying commercial products on Linux (Red Hat or otherwise). With JBoss bundled with Red Hat, It'll make things slightly difficult