by Darin Stewart | May 24, 2013 | Submit a Comment
Introducing the notion of Big Content has been an interesting study in reactions. To many, it has resonated and the possibility of more fully exploiting documents, social content and other unstructured resources has clicked. For others, it has been like fingernails on a chalkboard. A lot of us never liked the words “Big Data” in [...]
Category: Big Content Enterprise Content Managment Tags: Big Content, Big Data, catalyst, ECM, PCC, Symposium
by Darin Stewart | May 15, 2013 | 1 Comment
In recent posts I’ve introduced the notion of Big Content as shorthand for incorporating unstructured content into the Big Data world in a systematic and strategic way. Big Data changes the way we think about content and how we manage it. One of the most important areas requiring a fresh look is metadata. Big Content [...]
Category: Big Content Enterprise Content Managment metadata Tags: Big Content, Big Data, ECM, Metadata
by Darin Stewart | May 13, 2013 | 1 Comment
In recent years large, data-centric vendors acquired smaller enterprise search companies at an astonishing rate. Oracle purchased Endeca. IBM purchased Vivisimo. Hewlett-Packard purchased Autonomy. Microsoft purchased FAST. There is a reason for this feeding frenzy of corporate acquisitions. Big Data is the current killer application and search provides a ready entry into the Big [...]
Category: Big Content Enterprise Content Managment search Tags: Big Content, Big Data, Metadata, Search
by Darin Stewart | May 1, 2013 | 4 Comments
The age of information overload is slowly drawing to a close. The enterprise is finally getting comfortable with managing massive amounts of data, content and information. The pace of information creation continues to accelerate, but the ability of infrastructure and information management to keep pace is coming within sight. Big data is now considered a [...]
Category: Big Content Enterprise Content Managment Open Data search Tags: Big Content, Big Data, ECM, Search
by Darin Stewart | September 7, 2012 | Comments Off
Content is moving into the cloud. This trend seems both undeniable and inevitable. As the amount of content we need to store and the length of time it must be retained both continue to grow, so do the options for managing and maintaining that content outside of the enterprise data center. Continually expanding the infrastructure [...]
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Category: cloud Enterprise Content Managment Tags: ccm, cloud, cloud content management, file sharing
by Darin Stewart | August 8, 2012 | 2 Comments
For the past few weeks I’ve been immersed in work on open innovation, linked data and expertise sharing. I’ve managed to sneak out a couple of related blog posts during that time but most of my effort has be focused on writing a new research report, “Radical Openness: Profiting from data you didn’t create, people [...]
Category: Enterprise Content Managment Tags: catalyst, content management, Metadata, semantic web
by Darin Stewart | May 25, 2012 | 3 Comments
I recently copied my music library from a server sitting in my garage to Google Play in the cloud. Well, most of it anyway. After a week of round the clock uploading, I still had a few thousand tracks left on my hard drive when I hit Google’s quota limit. I didn’t go through this [...]
Category: cloud Enterprise Content Managment Tags: cloud, cloud content management, dropbox, google, senduit
by Darin Stewart | May 4, 2012 | 3 Comments
I talk daily to companies from a broad range of industries. These organizations run the whole gamut of company sizes, from small boutique operations to huge distributed enterprises. Even with that diversity, everyone wants to talk about content management. That’s probably for two reasons. First, regardless of your industry or company size, you depend on [...]
Category: Enterprise Content Managment Tags: content lifecycle, content management, ECM
by Darin Stewart | May 2, 2012 | 1 Comment
I am not yet fully converted to the gospel of Cloud Content Management. The data center is undeniably in decline, but it’s not quite dead yet. Despite the evangelism of cloud-oriented vendors, moving things off-premises is not always a good idea. This is especially true for content management. Don’t get me wrong. In many cases [...]
Category: Collaboration Enterprise Content Managment web content management Tags: cloud, cloud content management, content management, SaaS, WCM
by Darin Stewart | October 12, 2011 | 4 Comments
I’ve been writing and speaking about taxonomies and metadata for a little over a decade. In the early days, my audiences consisted mostly of library science refugees seeking shelter in corporate IT departments. I considered myself lucky if there were a dozen people in the room. Last week I attended the annual Microsoft SharePoint Conference [...]
Category: Collaboration Enterprise Content Managment metadata taxonomy Tags: managed vocabularies, Metadata, microsoft, sharepoint, Taxonomy
