Author: Recent Blog Entries

It’s been a year now since we launched our ECM Maturity Model under Creative Commons, and it seems to have proven comprehensive as well as extensible for different groups adapting it for their specific environments

I recently had the opportunity to publish in Information Management magazine some thoughts on collaboration and social computing architectures for larger enterprises

I’ve noticed while acting as an advisor on several recent digital asset management procurements that there is often confusion on the part of buyers as to the difference among what I call the "three tiers" of DAM end-user applications

This week, we’ve updated all 20+ of our search vendor evaluations. My colleague Adriaan Bloem, who obsessively tests search tools and interviews end-users of search systems

The annual Internet World UK event in London is always one of my favorite shows to attend each year.

Apparently Wednesday, March 24th was the second annual Ada Lovelace Day, which celebrates women’s contributions to technology. I confess complete blindness to this fact, until I was kindly mentioned

When Oracle acquired Stellent in 2006 I thought the best piece of technology they got their hands on was the imaging tools that Stellent had themselves previously acquired from Optika

Last month marked the one-year anniversary of the open source ECM Maturity model, "ECM3"

Is it a buyers’ market for content technologies? Some enterprises believe that technology suppliers are so hungry for business that they will line up for kilometers to respond to an RFP.

Whether the economy has begun to turn the corner, we don’t know, but if this graph from Indeed.com is any indication, times have at least not been getting any worse for job-seekers with "content management" on their resumes

I almost had a heart attack today when I realized that Info360 (previously AIIM Expo) is less than a month away. This year will be particularly busy for me as

If you live in North America, it’s easy to forget that Facebook’s global competition may not be MySpace or LinkedIn. Instead, it’s a plethora of local competitors. For example, Hyves, here in The Netherlands, has some 7.6m users

There are many ways to measure success of an information management project. Project leaders typically want to “help” your colleagues, but how do they know they’re successful?

As part of our SharePoint Across the Enterprise research stream, we evaluate about thirty Microsoft partner offerings across eight categories. This week we released the first in a series of updated assessments that take into account 2010-related developments

Google bought DocVerse two weeks ago — but that was hardly a surprise. DocVerse allows people to collaborate on the same Office document via special plug-in. The software syncs

Whilst recently working on a change management initiative for one of our multinational clients, I had a bit of an "aha!" moment. I was in the midst of explaining to the assembled team members how their future information management system

Whilst recently working on a change management initiative for one of our multinational clients, I had a bit of an "aha!" moment. I was in the midst of explaining to the assembled team members how their future information management system

Yesterday we released a new advisory paper on workflow. The briefing focusses in particular on what you need to look for (and what you can dispense with) in Web CMS and Digital Asset Management environments

I hope you can join us Tuesday, 6 April, for a free, one-hour webinar featuring SharePoint Watch guru Shawn Shell

As you may know, a lot of our work at the Real Story Group involves helping people make the right information management buying decisions. Not surprisingly, one of the most common areas where our customers seek our counsel is with vendor scoring and assessment methodologies