AIIM: The ECM Association Releases Electronic Management Survey

Hat tip to John Mancini. He sent me the link to the recent study; Electronic Records Management: For Most, It’s Still “Waiting for Godot” this evening. Normally the full survey is only made available to AIIM Professional Members but John is making the complete study available to everyone. You can download the survey from his post here.

Some of the key findings from the study include:

• Managing Electronic Information Still #2 Priority in Most Organizations (vs. Paper)
• Many Records Management Programs Just Cover the Tip of the Iceberg
• Organizations—Especially Medium Sized Ones—Are Vulnerable to New e-Discovery Rules
• In Searching for an Electronic Records Solution, Organizations Stress the Basics
• RM Outsource Opportunities Exist, Especially as RM Requirements Grow More Complex

Thanks John!

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Alfresco: Evolving ECM At Warp Speed

Alfresco made another big announcement this week but it was mostly unnoticed by the typical technology focused blogs and traditional media. The announced their First Embedded Enterprise Content Management System.

From the press release:

This offers application vendors a low-cost, scalable platform, which is standards based, to OEM as part of their application. Traditionally application vendors have had to manage the high cost, of either developing their own repository, or using an expensive, proprietary offering from an ECM vendor.

What is significant about this announcement and the others that Alfresco has been regularly making over the last year is that they are significantly increasing the velocity of developing improvements and enhancements to the Alfresco ECM platform. Most traditional ECM vendors take months and up to  year or more for delivering a new release or version. Since the beginning of 2006 they have released three four versions of Alfresco ECM along with other major enhancements like web content management, DoD 5015.2 records management, and now embedded ECM.

What do you think? Is Alfresco going to force the big guys to become more nimble? Or is it just impossible for them to move any faster?

Update: After reading John Newton’s post Looking Forward to Alfresco in 2007, I noted that Alfresco had four releases in 2006!

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