by Toby Bell | March 2, 2011 | 3 Comments
Later in March, I will be in Los Angeles for Gartner’s Portals, Content & Collaboration (& Social Media, & Mobile, & Context) Summit. You should be, too. As conference chair, I do a number of things to help promote the event – but haven’t mentioned it here. Given all the topics I’ve covered in posts, [...]
Category: Cloud Somewhat Serious Strategic Planning Uncategorized Tags: Auto-Tune, Case Management, Clay Shirky, ECM, Gartner, Web Content Management
by Toby Bell | January 13, 2011 | 11 Comments
It might be hard to determine given evidence of other interests in my blog, but my primary research coverage at Gartner is focused on enterprise content management. For those of you not interested in this (and you outnumber those that do by a nearly immeasurable factor) I will keep the technical micro-humdrummery surrounding standards to [...]
Category: Somewhat Serious Uncategorized Tags: CMIS, Content Management, DITA, ECM, NMR, standards, XML
by Toby Bell | March 14, 2010 | Comments Off
SharePoint overwhelms business intelligence as a top search term on Gartner.com, that is. On Google, the SharePoint yield back in May, 2008 was 19,600,000. Today, the number is 15,100,000 (I wonder if Google’s competitive instincts have infected its algorithm). What caused something to finally overtake BI among Gartner’s clients? A number of factors, not the [...]
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Category: Somewhat Serious Uncategorized Tags: Business Intelligence, ECM, Google, SharePoint
by Toby Bell | August 24, 2009 | 4 Comments
“The true course of every human journey that is set by money instead of by stars or better counsel is to meander inevitably toward misery.” This might be a real quote, albeit by a relatively wordy poor person. It’s more likely that it is a logline – perhaps one from a Greek tragedy written centuries [...]
Category: Somewhat Serious Tags: Dancing with the Stars, ECM, Media, Metadata, Neil Patrick Harris, Plastics, Reputation Management, Scream, Video
by Toby Bell | May 7, 2009 | 4 Comments
No – it’s not the name of a law firm. It’s a business model. The concept behind this is that seatholders represent the lasting value toward enterprise software vendor stability – that gathering and then holding onto as many of those end-users as possible will keep one vendor afloat on a stable sea of maintenance [...]
Category: Somewhat Serious Uncategorized Tags: ECM, Open Text, OTEX, Social Software, VIGN, Vignette
by Toby Bell | September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments
“Are you going to eat those peanuts?” It’s surprising how many great stories–mostly untold–begin with that line. Surprising, too, how many begin at 37,000 feet over Denver in airplanes where drinks have just been served and the squirrelly man next to me with the oversized glasses, poor complexion, and cheesy toupee leans over nervously, yet [...]
Category: Somewhat Less Serious Uncategorized Tags: BPM, CEVA, ECM, Not sure if Sega is a client, Not the actual GAO, Reputation Management, Some guy I call Spike, Welcome and hello, Workflow
