Records Management and Cloud Storage

Alan Pelz-Sharpe brings up an interesting topic about Records Management in the cloud and concludes that the cloud is “dangerous” to RM. I’m no expert in the intimate details of RM, but I must observe that Alan made certain blanket assumptions about cloud storage that are not accurate and in the least, cannot be broadly [...]

I’m Befuddled…

I just got back from a business trip where I chatted with the technical team from a prospect about their product selection process for a content repository and although they’re very interested in Alfresco, the business users opted for a “traditional”/”closed source” CMS instead of Alfresco. It seems that there’s an impression that Alfresco, being [...]

Applying Web 2.0 Paradigms to ECM

In his blog posting of March 29th titled “Making Enterprise Content Management Easier“, John Newton, Alfresco’s CTO and co-founder noted:

End users, especially high-paid end users, refuse to use enterprise content management. Instead they just put documents on shared file drives and send out emails to their colleagues on where they can that information. Can you [...]