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IT RESELLER – SEPTEMBER 2007
The ‘YouTube’ factor
The
past decade has seen some In this increasingly fast-paced world of
truly astounding developments business, solutions need to be installed far
in the world of document more quickly and be far more intuitive to the
management. We have seen everything from user community than many systems of yore.
major technological shifts to a fervent period of
market consolidation post the dotcom bubble End-users may be becoming more and more
era and into the present. There may be some demanding of their DM solutions because
debate as to whether, on balance, of their need for greater storage capacity,
technological advance drives enhanced security, easier document retrieval,
demand or whether the demand etc. However, there is perhaps more to it
for ever simpler, more secure than that. Consider that many end users are
and convenient file storage and now of a generation raised on a diet of the
retrieval drives the pace for Internet, Google searches, PlayStation, Xbox,
technological change. However and more recently YouTube, Facebook, blogs
there can be little doubt that and wikis. This is of course likely to imbue
ever increasing legal/legislative them with a heightened level of tech-savviness
demands, inter alia, have to be and an unwillingness to take anything but
piling on the pressure for more the ‘state of the art’ seriously. As Alfresco
efficient, more affordable and Software’s Dr Ian Howells has said, if these
more user-friendly solutions. people work in an environment where
legacy DM and collaboration systems are
Indeed, Oceanus’ Nick Rowley still being relied upon, they are hardly
has said there is currently an going to consider this an attractive working
increasing desire to have more environment.
‘productised’, rather than
bespoke, solutions so that the user can more But here I have only scratched the surface
easily and conveniently benefit from on-going of the debate. Turn to page 6 for our special
technological developments as soon as they 10th Anniversary Report – and our regular
occur. Indeed, there is, arguably, an economic section on DM beginning on page 47 – to
benefit of pursuing product-based systems get more fully in the picture …
rather than more costly bespoke alternatives.
Ed Holden
Editor »
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SEPTEMBER 2007
10th Anniversary Report:
Document managementDocument management
ADC:
The critical link
Print:
Identifying opportunity
Document management:
It’s elementary
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