Back from the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference and I should be able to start posting more regularly now. It was a busy week and very interesting to see the way Microsoft intends to go to market with ECM. More about that later this week.
Speaking of ECM and Microsoft, Open Text was named as Microsoft’s Global ISV (Independent Software Vendors in Microsoft speak) of the year at the Worldwide Partner Conference last Wednesday evening.
So why is this newsworthy. Well until late last year (November 14, 2005) when Open Text announced a new strategic relationship with Microsoft they have competed very directly and aggressively with Microsoft. Well, it has been eight months since that announcement and what is interesting to me is I am not completely convinced that a whole lot has been accomplished yet on the next generation of SharePoint. Just two months ago at the AIIM Conference in Philadelphia Open Text exhibited in the Microsoft booth but was unable to show any preliminary examples of LiveLink working with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Also, integrating ECM products with SharePoint and providing a mechanism for transferring content from the SharePoint repository into an ECM system is nice but not noteworthy. I would have been much more impressed if Open Text had announced plans to use the SharePoint V3 repository to store their content and extend the additional LiveLink functionality to content stored in the SharePoint repository.
I will have to wait and see if I agree that the award was really well deserved…
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