Is ECM Ready for Enterprise 2.0?

With a sea change of influence taking hold in the enterprise content management (ECM) landscape — open source, SaaS, enterprise search and all things web 2.0 — I can’t help but wonder how they’ll affect the overall ECM ecosystem. The aforementioned are all things that are quickly coagulating to compose what many of us call Enterprise 2.0.

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Using Content to Make Sales, Drive Productivity

Most organizations do not properly understand or manage content. They fail to realize that quality content is now key to productivity, cost effectiveness, sales, and customer satisfaction.

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Opera browser now has phishing filter

The latest version of the Opera Web browser incorporates a technology that warns users when they visit a fraudulent site.

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Information Streams in the Enterprise

Enterprise RSS is poised to become the focal point that employees turn to for information, eclipsing individual aggregators plus systems such as portals, intranets, and enterprise applications.

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What Can’t Open Source Achieve in the Next 10 Years?

Exactly ten years ago I was sitting in a small but cosy flat in the west of Helsinki, waiting to interview its owner. He was busy in the tiny kitchen, which lay just past the entrance hall decked out with dozens of cups and shields won at Karate competitions, preparing a cappuccino for each of us. As you’ve probably guessed, his name was Linus Torvalds - the trophies belong to his wife.

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Google’s Search For Patents

Google today rolled out a new search to add to the pile. In a blog post, the company said Google Patent Search is a natural extension of its mission to make public domain government information more easily accessible.

And you can use it to find patents for historic inventions such as adhesive tape or contact lenses. There’s even a patent for a shark protector suit, Google said.

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webMethods adds AJAX to SOA suite

WebMethods on Monday will roll out the webMethods Fabric 7.0 suite for business process integration and SOA, adding a registry, metadata management and an AJAX developer tool.

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SOA: Redrawing the Business Processes

“Security doesn’t get enough attention in SOA,” warns Dennis Gaughan, senior analyst at AMR Research. Early efforts tend to focus on defining service and messaging interfaces, or on separating business and data logic from each other and from execution and presentation. But as services become widely used and adopted, retrofitting them to accommodate access control and authorization becomes very difficult.

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Data Centers: Consolidate or Outsource?

Outsourcing applications also makes sense in cases where you need to quickly fill gaps in your existing applications, in which case you need to make sure the provider can easily integrate with your back-office systems. It can also be an effective way to release I.T. staff from noncore resource intensive functions.

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VoIP market growing “every quarter”

The market for enterprise IP telephony infrastructure in Western Europe continues to grow.

Sales for IP phones and switching systems both increased during the third quarter of 2006 with total revenues rising by 4.3 per cent to around $580m.

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