Socializing business is a revolution in the way we do work. The days when you can control your brand through your website are long gone. Customers are getting information about your brand and products through a number of different channels and if you aren't listening and engaging these channels,...
I had a briefing on the latest version of Alfresco’s Activiti BPM a couple of months back, but decided to wait until the news about their new partners – BP3 and Edorasware – was released before I posted. This strong showing of enterprise support partners is crucial for them following the defection...
It’s Entrepreneurship Week on Bdaily. David Gildeh, director of Cloud Services at Alfresco and fomer founder and CEO of cloud collaboration start-up SambaStream here comments on a culture of entrepreneurship in the high-tech industry, and how the UK compares to Silicon Valley.
Software architects want to leverage big data and the cloud, while chief security officers opine over the various regulatory and security requirements that can only be addressed by storing documents on-premises. The solution? More and more enterprise organizations are embracing a cloud and on-...
Believe it or not, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) was around long before the iPad appeared. When I was a consultant at Accenture eight years ago, we would bring our own devices into the client’s workplace to deliver projects for them. Only in the strictest, most regulated clients (like defense and...
The first time I heard the term Big Content, I thought “Oh brother, Are Web CMS and ECM vendors actually sticking the word 'Big' in front of 'Content' in an attempt to jump onto the Big Data bandwagon?”
I've called cloud-only vendors' bluff that everything can be managed in the cloud. The other option? Legacy vendors who are inept to meet the needs of securely sharing content outside firewall constraints.
The open source Crafter content management system (CMS) is getting a new life as a standalone operating entity. Crafter will now have commercial support from the newly-formed Crafter Software Corporation.
The capital markets in the UK are not ready for growth in high-tech companies, according to John Newton, CTO and founder of open-source content management firm Alfresco.
In spite of efforts to introduce a new market segment for fast-growing companies in order to attract more technology IPOs, the...
Of course you've heard of the coveted Aragon Research Hot Vendors report, and only the most compelling new technologies or those leveraging cloud, mobile, content or video can pass muster. This year, Alfresco, MZinga, Accellion and SpringCM, among others, have been named in the second annual report.