Using Wikis to Document UI Specifications - Boxes and Arrows: Th. How your design team can benefit from wiki collaboration while avoiding its pitfalls Introduction The role of the interaction designer is to specify the interface’s behaviors and elements, so that engineers know what to build and how the product should operate. This documentation is commonly known as a UI specification or UI spec. There are several applications for authoring a UI spec, with wikis being a relatively new tool. However, designers should be aware of a wiki’s benefits and drawbacks for documentation, since UI specs uniquely reflect a project and its context. Description of the Problem There are many product development processes and one that has garnered much attention is agile. The Agile Manifesto[1]: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a strict plan Wiki Overview Benefits Collaboration Speed Flexibility Reversible Archives Syntax.
8 Things to Consider when Implementing SharePoint with Another E. Michael Elkins (melkins@kestralgroup.com) is an independent consultant with over 17 years of experience helping global clients with the design and deployment of enterprise wide content management systems. His clients benefit from his ECM experience including strategic guidance, information architecture and ECM/data governance programs. His company, Kestral Group LLC, is based in Denver, Colorado. With any ECM deployment, it is important to have a solid implementation plan to be successful. When combining multiple content solutions, it is critical. Unfortunately, many SharePoint implementations are more organic than well thought out.
SharePoint sites are often created with little thought with respect to long term use. 8 Things to Consider when Implementing SharePoint with Another ECM engine 1 -- Determine SharePoint’s role in the organization. For some companies, SharePoint is the chosen collaboration and social networking engine and all collaborative content resides in SharePoint. Lotus Quickr and ECM. 10 points workFile ECM has over SharePoint « Andrew One Degree’ This is a post really looking at our own workFile ECM platform and comparing it with Microsofts SharePoint. Microsoft have been getting into the ECM marketplace for some time now, and with SharePoint 2007, many potential customers of ours (workFile ECM) have asked why should they purchase an ECM platform when they have access to SharePoint for next to nothing purchase price (though many do then look at their licensing terms).
Well here are 10 key fundamentals that separate workFile as a true ECM platform compared to SharePoint. Persistent objects – This is something all ECM platforms have, it is simply a unique pointer to an object within the repository that is there forever, it doesn’t and cannot change. It means that unique ID is that, it is unique and always will be in the case of workFile at pointing to that one object. In SharePoint 2007 often a links are broken when you rename or move a file. Like this: Like Loading... Trends: Should you buy Social Software from your ECM vendor? One of the questions at a "town hall" debate I facilitated at last month's Enterprise 2.0 conference addressed the topic of information lifecycle management for enterprise social spaces.
Most of the attendees didn't seem to think it was necessary. I disagree. All information -- be it official enterprise documents or social content -- follows lifecycles, and you shouldn't just publish-and-forget, on your intranet or any public website. This same lifecycle mantra is promoted heavily by enterprise content management (ECM) vendors looking to get into the social computing game. But does that mean you should buy Social Software from your ECM vendor? Open Text Social Media Open Text was demonstrating a new product called "Social Media," still in beta, due out later this quarter.
But Open Text is really touting its "candy and aspirin" approach: sweet social with an analgesic back-end. Maybe there's more there I didn't see. Documentum CenterStage The Marketplace. Five Reasons Your ECM System May Never Be Deployed. AIIM's research and publications provide neutral and unbiased market research reflecting the wisdom of our 80,000 community of information professionals, helping you match and measure your ROI and implementation issues. AIIM's new research on "Content Collaboration and Processing in a Cloud and Mobile World" finds that business leaders see collaboration as ‘crucial,’ but are confused by the rapid convergence of tools.
In this research report, 89% of respondents said that a formal collaboration system was a vital piece of infrastructure, yet 54% found the rapid convergence of collaboration and social tools to be very confusing. External collaboration was particularly problematic, with 71% feeling their organization has shortfalls in technical support for external and four in ten feeling strongly that external collaboration is badly supported. Download Report Recent Industry Watch reports: Recent AIIM White Papers: Recent AIIM Infographics: Congratulations to our prize winners: Trends: Some lessons out of ECM vendor demo hell. Self immolation is a rare, some may say mythical event. Yet in the world of content management it is more common than you might think.
For example, I witnessed three major ECM Suite vendors burst into flames of their own earlier this year during a week of day-long demos for a large customer. Many lessons came out of the week, both for vendors trying to sell high-end systems in a tough market, and for buyers ensuring they don't commit to the wrong technology or supplier. And in ECM you do commit: for a very long time and a hell of a lot of money. To give a bit of background to this story, while protecting client confidentiality and the innocent (if there were any innocent parties), let me give you the following details.
Due to complex legacy application dependencies and various in-house technical complexities, Acme shortlisted Alfresco, Oracle, IBM, Objective, and EMC Documentum. Acme wrote an excellent RFP: concise, focused on scenarios. Could things get any worse? Then came Vendor B. Full Registration Page. Trends: EMC Documentum opens the kimono. EMC has made a developer edition of Content Server freely available, and they have also provided a similar free developer environment for xDB. At the same time, each free developer edition will have an accompanying online community that provides code samples, tutorials and full documentation.
All in all, this represents quite a significant turnaround for EMC Documentum and one that is to be applauded. I can speak from personal past experience of the nightmare of finding basic technical advice regarding Documentum releases, and being reduced to scouring the web for potential (and often unreliable) information. This announcement will also provide a sigh of relief for those who have had to pay license fees for Documentum development environments. More importantly it shows EMC 'opening the kimono' (as that awful phrase goes) more widely than we might have expected. IBM FileNet ECM Roadmap. Enterprise Content Management. Enterprise Content Management. Download details: SharePoint Designer 2007. North American ECM Community. Welcome to The Worldwide IBM ECM Community. Our community brings together IBM ECM professionals, such as our Clients, Business Partners, and other IBMers for the purpose of Learning, Sharing, and Engaging.
The community allows you to participate in Forums, read and edit Wikis, and share and collaborate on Files. Also, visit the official IBM ECM Team Blog for posts from the leading IBM ECM experts and thought leaders. IBM Enterprise Content Management software enables the world's top companies to make better decisions, faster. By controlling content, companies can use industry-specific solutions to capture, manage. and share information. We look forward to your comments and questions. Trends: Christening your ECM project. It has always surprised me how many firms name their internal ECM applications and systems after the product that it runs on.
For example, I have come across many organizations over the years that tell me things like- "Well when I go into LiveLink I.... " " I logged my information into Oracle " "We put our documents into WorkSite" It might sound like the ultimate in pedantry (making me the ultimate pedant - though that in itself is probably a little pedantic to point out), but in my experience, naming your application after the technology it runs on usually delivers unexpected consequences.
First off, any moans and groans about "the system" are focused on its namesake and over time it becomes easy to believe that "the system" is to blame for all your ills, whether in fact it is or not. If you simply blame the technology and fail to address these issues, then in time you simply end up staggering from one clunky system to another -- basking in the fun of something new, til it too fails.
CMS Watch Subway Map of Content Technology Vendors -- CMS Watch. ECM Maturity Model Musings. How to justify the implementation of a document capture and rout. Eventbrite - World Plone Day Toronto. Invalid quantity. Please enter a quantity of 1 or more. The quantity you chose exceeds the quantity available. Please enter your name. Please enter an email address. Please enter a valid email address. Please enter your message or comments. Please enter the code as shown on the image. Please select the date you would like to attend. Please enter a valid email address in the To: field. Please enter a subject for your message.
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Recognizing the need for more nimble, adaptable technology, IBM’s agile ECM portfolio provides improved flexibility to help business users respond faster to changing business requirements. The new solutions will allow customers to optimize content-based operational and compliance processes. Unifying content, process and compliance capabilities in a new composite application framework, IBM’s agile ECM enables clients to quickly solve increasingly complex business problems. Using a flexible, services-oriented environment, clients can now deploy solution applications within days instead of months.
With this new offering, IBM is helping clients accelerate time-to-value, improving end-user accessibility and allowing business professionals to optimize their content-based processes. EMC, IBM and Microsoft Jointly Create First Web S. Skip Navigation My Account Welcome, Log out View or Edit Profile About EMC Newsroom EMC, IBM and Microsoft Jointly Create First Web Services Interface Specification for Greater Interoperability of Enterprise Content Management Systems Trio joined by Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle, and SAP in Development of the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Specification.
Contacts News Summary HOPKINTON, Mass., ARMONK, NY, and REDMOND, Wash.– September 10, 2008–EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced a jointly developed specification which uses Web Services and Web 2.0 interfaces to enable applications to interoperate with multiple Enterprise Content Management (ECM) repositories by different vendors. The ultimate goal of CMIS is to dramatically reduce the IT burden around multi-vendor, multi-repository content management environments. Key to the new specification, EMC, IBM and Microsoft worked together to define an interface that: Photos About EMC. Trends: The ECM Suites Report 2009 released today.
Today I'm proud to announce the release of the 2009 edition of The ECM Suites Report. Expanded out to over 400 pages, I believe this constitutes the most comprehensive ECM product evaluation report of its kind. In this edition we have added some new vendors, dropped some old, and revised all 30 product reviews. This churn reflects a vibrant and extremely healthy global ECM market. As we note in today's press release, there probably has never been a better time for buyers, with a wide range of strong products to chose from, especially in the mid market. If there is one thing in particular this latest research has shown us, it is that SharePoint did not (as many predicted) kill the ECM market, but rather the ECM market has embraced SharePoint -- and we are all the better for it.
Of course there are some stinkers out there, and as buyer you need to exercise caution, but we hope the advice, critiques, and "insider" detail we provide in this report will help mitigate your risks. Burton Group Inflection Point: Hitting the SharePoint Wall. News - Open Text Corporation. 2008-3-3 – AIIM Conf. & Expo 2008, Boston; CeBIT 2008, Hannover - Open Text™ Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), today unveiled its Enterprise 2.0 strategy designed to help customers transform their organizations with powerful social computing tools. Open Text is taking its collaboration and Web solutions offerings to a new level, providing 2.0 capabilities -- wikis, forums, blogs, tagging, moderation, communities and real-time collaboration -- that are persuasive, productive and integrated into business processes, while still respecting compliance initiatives.
Web 2.0 technologies have redefined the Web as a platform to harness collective intelligence. Applied in the enterprise, organizations can achieve a future desired state of Enterprise 2.0, where its internal and external web sites and applications get better the more people use them. The fundamental elements of Open Text's Enterprise 2.0 strategy include: AIIM.