This week’s article is from Howard Frear, Sales and Marketing Director at EASY SOFTWARE UK, on what he sees as shaping our market in the next 12 months. Despite current uncertainties, Howard remains optimistic about the sector’s prospects for 2017 and beyond. Howard argues that the drives of changes shaping the sector include consolidation of the DM market, …
Returning this week to #thedmcollaborators blog is Howard Frear, Sales and Marketing Director at EASY SOFTWARE UK. In this new post, Howard discusses the issue of procurement fraud. That’s where a company pays for materials never delivered, but it also means bribery or encouraging suppliers to charge an inflated price then raking off the difference. According to Howard,…
This week on #thedmcollaborators blog, Howard Frear, Sales and Marketing Director at EASY SOFTWARE UK, talks about the serious problem of CEO fraud. According to Howard, CEO fraud has risen by 270% since January of last year alone, costing the global economy at least $3bn over the past three years, while an invoicing company Tungsten Network says tricking…
UNDRSTND Group’s Managing Partner Brent Bussell has contributed this week’s #thedmcollaborators article. It it, Brent discusses why the ECM community needs to rally round and spread the word about its contribution better than it’s currently managing. According to Brent, rival technologies are encroaching on the core territory of Enterprise Content Management – despite the fact that ECM can (and…
By John Mancini, chief evangelist, AIIM Big Data is only going to get bigger as more information generated. As businesses and individuals generate such large amounts of data — and organisations come to depend on it even more — the business value of information is drawn more sharply into question. Should it have an economic…
This week’s #thedmcollaborators article is from AIIM’s Chief Analyst Bob Larrivee on ending the business process paper chase. As we gear up for another World Paper Free Day next month, global information management leadership group AIIM has come up with some timely research into the rate of progress AIIM members are making when it comes to the move towards a…
This week’s article from AIIM’s Chief Evangelist, John Mancini, is on ‘infonomics’, a way to conceptualise and measure the value of information assets. According to John the intriguing idea is something AIIM’s high-level industry Executive Leadership Council (ELC) has arrived at. The ELC points to a growing gap between the traditional ways we value companies in terms of the tangible and intangible assets reported…
News broke this week that opentext.com has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Dell EMC’s Enterprise Content Division (ECD), including Documentum. ECD offers a suite of leading Enterprise Content Management solutions with deep industry focus, including the Documentum™, InfoArchive™, and LEAP™ product families. You can read the full OpenText press release here Following this news, Cheryl…
This week’s #DMCollaborators article, from EASY SOFTWARE’s Howard Frear, is on the perils of poor contract management. Howard discusses the case of an employee in Western Australia who was responsible for an IT services contract that was meant to come in at AUS$44m but ended up costing the Australian taxpayer AUS$81m. You can read Howard’s article in full here If you have…
The latest #DMCollaborators blog is from AIIM’s new interim president Peggy Winton on why AIIM has revised its core certification, Certified Information Professional (CIP), to reflect the huge changes, driven by consumerisation, cloud, mobile, and the Internet of Things. According to Peggy, this ‘storm of changes’, that has taken place over the last ten years, has completely changed how the world…