Consultants get a bad rap: out for their own gain, focused on billable hours rather than client value, willing to take on any project for a dollar (no matter how impossible to deliver), and beholden to their own success rather than their client’s.
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Busting 8 Robotic Process Automation Myths
My company, Doculabs, recently hosted its second client summit focused on robotic process automation (RPA), an area currently of great interest to many of our clients. During the half-day gathering, attendees spoke candidly about what’s working and what’s not with RPA at their respective organizations.
Continue reading...4 Information Security Trends for 2018
The last few years have been hot for information security (InfoSec), driven mainly by high profile breaches at Target, Home Depot, Anthem, the DoD, NSA, Equifax and others.
Continue reading...Enterprise Content Management at the Crossroads
OpenText's acquisition of Documentum has opened up a broader discussion of where enterprise content management (ECM) is today and where it may be headed in the coming years. My last few posts have laid out my thoughts on what OpenText's acquisition means for organizations currently using Documentum.
Continue reading...Planning a Documentum Exit Strategy
The dust hasn’t completely settled on the OpenText Documentum acquisition, but the initial shock has worn off. Any of my clients currently on Documentum are now focusing on their go-forward strategy for the platform. For most of them, this means an exit strategy, because none of them view Documentum as a platform worth investing in
Continue reading...All Content Is Not Created Equal
Enterprise content management is going through some changes — on that (under)statement we can all agree. My last few posts on where I think ECM is headed has resulted in some substantial conversations — I’ll spare you the gory details.
Continue reading...An ECM Plan for the Bumpy Days Ahead
Making decisions during times of uncertainty is challenging to say the least. This will particularly ring true for any organization currently looking to make progress with enterprise content management (ECM). The current ECM vendor landscape is in turmoil.
Continue reading...Stop Worrying About ECM Vendors: It’s All About Your Approach
We're in the middle of a sea change in how organizations choose to address their content.
Continue reading...Forrester’s ECM Wave Falls Flat
I just finished reading Forrester's 2017 enterprise content management (ECM) wave for business content services. The report is well written, thoroughly researched and thought provoking (as usual). And yet. Some of the key conclusions seem out of step with what I'm seeing in the wider world.
Continue reading...Is Office 365 Going to Eat Your Lunch?
It’s no secret Microsoft has been trying to take over the workplace for a while now — just ask WordPerfect. But with the advent of Office 365, it appears to be taking this to a whole new level.
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