Snowed in at the @OpenText Analyst Summit 2019
Mark Barrenechea, OpenText’s CEO and CTO, kicked off the analyst summit with his re:imagine keynote here in Boston amidst a snowy winter storm that ensures a captive audience. He gave some of the current OpenText stats –100M end users over 120,000 customers, 2.8B in revenue last year — before expanding into a review of how […]
Integrating process and content for digital transformation: my upcoming webinar
As much as I love chatting with the newer crop of entrepreneurs about their products and ideas, sometimes it’s nice to have a conversation with someone who remembers when OS/2 was the cheapest way to buy 3.5” high density disks. You know who’s been hip-deep in the technology of content and process as long as […]
Integrating your enterprise content with cloud business applications? I wrote a paper on that!
Just because there’s a land rush towards SaaS business applications like Salesforce for some of your business applications, it doesn’t mean that your content and data are all going to be housed on that platform. In reality, you have a combination of cloud applications, cloud content that may apply across several applications, and on-premise content; […]
AlfrescoDay 2018: digital business platform and a whole lot of AWS
I attended Alfresco’s analyst day and a customer day in New York in late March, and due to some travel and project work, just finding time to publish my notes now. Usually I do that while I’m at the conference, but part of the first day was under NDA so I needed to think about […]
AIIM18 keynote with @jmancini77: it’s all about digital transformation
I haven’t been to the AIIM conference since the early to mid 90s; I stopped when I started to focus more on process than content (and it was very content-centric then), then stayed away when the conference was sold off, then started looking at it again when it reinvented itself a few years ago. These […]
Insurance technology: is this very conservative industry finally ready for its close-up?
I’ve worked with insurance clients for a long time, first helping them with automation in their underwriting, policy administration and claims processes, and now helping them with digital transformation to create new business models and platforms. One thing that has always struck me is how behind the time most insurance companies are: usually old companies […]
Integrating process and content: exploring the use cases
I recently wrote a series of short articles sponsored by Alfresco and published on their blog. Today, the third of the series was published, discussing some use cases for integrating content into your processes: Document-driven processes Case management Document lifecycle processes Support documentation for exceptions in data-driven processes Classification and analysis processes for non-document content […]
Vega Unity 7: productizing ECM/BPM systems integration for better user experience and legacy modernization
I recently had the chance to catch up with some of my former FileNet colleagues, David Lewis and Brian Gour, who are now at Vega Solutions and walked me through their Unity 7 product release. Having founded and run a boutique ECM and BPM services firm in the past, I have a soft spot for […]
OpenText Enterprise World 2017 day 2 keynote with @muhismajzoub
We had a brief analyst Q&A yesterday at OpenText Enterprise World 2017 with Mark Barrenechea (CEO/CTO), Muhi Majzoub (EVP of engineering) and Adam Howatson (CMO), and today we heard more from Majzoub in the morning keynote. He started with a review of the past year of product development — specific product enhancements and releases, more applications, and […]
Cloud ECM with @l_elwood @OpenText at AIIM Toronto Chapter
Lynn Elwood, VP of Cloud and Services Solutions at OpenText, presented on managing information in a cloud world at the AIIM chapter meeting in Toronto. This is of particular interest to Canadians, since most of the cloud service offerings that we see are in the US, and many companies are not comfortable with keeping their private […]
