Crime Scene Investigation: Content – Who killed Enterprise Content Management? As consumer technology takes more attention, enterprise content management seems to have disappeared, particularly ECM. Presentation by John Newton was made at the Technology Services Group led by Dave Giordano at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center on 8 June 2011.
Crime Scene Investigation: Content – Who killed Enterprise Content Management? As consumer technology takes more attention, enterprise content management seems to have disappeared, particularly ECM. This is a presentation by John Newton was made at the Technology Services Group led by Dave Giordano at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center on 8 June 2011.
Main point here is that Alfresco is a professional, experienced software company that is safe to do real enterprise business with, etc.
Over the past decade, there has been a fundamental change in the axis of IT innovation. In prior decades, new systems were introduced at the very high end of the economic spectrum, typically within large public agencies and Fortune 500 companies. Over time these systems trickled down to smaller businesses, and then to home office applications, and finally to consumers, students and even children. In this past decade, however, that flow has been reversed. Now it is consumers, students and children who are leading the way, with early adopting adults and nimble small to medium size businesses following, and it is the larger institutions who are, frankly, the laggards.
The challenges here are enormous. Expectations of Enterprise IT are rising. The business, still reeling from the crash of 2008, is questioning the rigidity and cost of legacy systems. The focus of IT is changing from a traditional focus on standardizing and automating back-end manual processes – a focus on CONTROL – to a focus on empowering and connecting knowledge workers and improving knowledge worker productivity and innovation.
HUD needed to image 3.2 million pages of case records and support tele-working while providing faster response to FOIA requests. Armedia imaged the backlog of paper in the base year and provides a hosted Document and Records Management solution for HUD leveraging Alfresco ECMS and Daeja for redactionFOIA and RecordsSpeed of responseControl and RedactionThe Army National Ground Intelligence Center has been using Alfresco Enterprise in a large scale, production deployment for more than two years. Alfresco was selected to replace a custom developed, legacy application. A member of the implementation team will present the benefits realized by the transition to Alfresco. The presentation will also discuss their integration approach, product customizations, and lessons learned.Lessons learnedIntelligence, Sharing, OrganizationStruggling under a homegrown CMS that lacked robust functionality, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) sought a next-generation solution to enable a major site redesign. Rivet Logic helped NAS implement an Alfresco WCM solution that helped streamline operations, resulting in faster publishing cycles, increased productivity, and a much richer site experience. This presentation will feature a guest speaker from NAS and address the solution in detail – including how a decoupled content delivery approached offered presentation-tier flexibility and dynamic site functionality.Faster publishing cyclesIncreased productivityRicher site experienceDecoupled content deliveryFlexibility and dynamic sitesCity of Denver has improved efficiency of existing systems, saved licensing and maintenance costs all while expanding the City's services to its citizens.Documentum MigrationPaper to electronic recordsRevamp business processesImproving CRMMobile
FarmvilleMafia Wars
350,000 apps in the iStoreOver 10 billion downloads
The implications of this for Enterprise IT are profound. We grew up with letters, phones, telexes, and faxes, and grew into email, shared text databases like Lotus Notes, portals, web sites, and mobile phones. Now we are going through a massive transformation based on 1) connecting people in real time; 2) smart and geographically-aware mobile devices; and 3) ubiquitous and cheap bandwidth.
The users are in the middle of the enterprise – the Information WorkerThe benefit is greater customer intimacy and employee productivity
Document and Records ManagementDynamic Information PublishingeCommerce SitesUser Generated Content SitesWeb-based CollaborationMedia-rich Corporate IntranetRegulated ApplicationsTransactional or Complex Systems with User GuidanceMedia and Image Capture
Engagement Compelling content or images engage usersParticipation Users participate through Content as the object of conversation (e.g. photos, web pages, presentations) Explanation Content distills or explains complex information and guides the userQuality Content processes insure accuracy and delivery of information and improve quality of executionCompliance Regulations require explanation of procedures and records of what has been seen or delivered to users and customersExecution Documents, Images and Records are critical to business execution (e.g. contracts or invoices)Results Collaboration usually results in Content (e.g. Plan, Report, Presentation)
The challenges here are enormous. Expectations of Enterprise IT are rising. The business, still reeling from the crash of 2008, is questioning the rigidity and cost of legacy systems. The focus of IT is changing from a traditional focus on standardizing and automating back-end manual processes – a focus on CONTROL – to a focus on empowering and connecting knowledge workers and improving knowledge worker productivity and innovation.
Over the past decade, there has been a fundamental change in the axis of IT innovation. In prior decades, new systems were introduced at the very high end of the economic spectrum, typically within large public agencies and Fortune 500 companies. Over time these systems trickled down to smaller businesses, and then to home office applications, and finally to consumers, students and even children. In this past decade, however, that flow has been reversed. Now it is consumers, students and children who are leading the way, with early adopting adults and nimble small to medium size businesses following, and it is the larger institutions who are, frankly, the laggards.
Target the Middle of the Organization – Knowledge WorkerInformation Worker Applications = Systems of EngagementConsumer-like Interface, SMB-style monetizationEnhance the collaborative experienceIntegrate with Social Business SystemsReal-time communications, Mobile, Video, Social NetworksJive, Lotus, Cisco, Skype, etc. in the enterpriseManage Social-rich Content: Video, Blogs, NewsBecome the YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare and Scribd for the EnterprisePublish to Social ChannelsYouTube, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, SlideShare, ScribdDeliver in the Cloud and on Premise
IT as an end-to-end nervous systemLocation basedPresence basedTime basedRole basedTeam basedDocument basedTopic basedSituation basedPermissions based
First implementation CMIS 1.0Both SOAP and REST protocolsBasis for all future public APIsPlatform of choice for most new CMIS developmentDriving OpenCMISBe the FREE platform to build portable applicationsGet apps to pull Alfresco
We aren’t the only ones who are seeing a shift in ECM to handle these new requirements. Here is how Gartner now views the ECM market – broken up into four areas.Explain each of the areas – and talk about Alfresco’s historic success in transactional and online.However, our focus going forward is going to be Social Content Management and Content Management as infrastructure. We want to be the de-facto platform for managing content in a social world.
Here is another, simpler way to look at – Social Content Management is at the intersection of where typical ECM functionality meets the functionality of social software, in general. Or, as John Newton mentioned in the video: Go on and discuss content – then capture the results of that discussion inside your ECM solution in order to retain it and make it findable, or to kick-off workflows, etc.Now – all of this strategy is great. But I want to bring it down to earth a bit and make it real. The fact is – Alfresco was BUILT for a time such as this, and the work that we have been doing around CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Standard), our huge set of RESTful APIs, Portal Standards, etc. Are the underpinnings for Social Content Management to really happen. Let me show you some proof points for this…
Many enterprises will want to use their CMS AS a social business system – or at least take advantage of social features when they are focused on content creation & collaboration. Think of Alfresco Share as a social business system for collaboration, with content as the focus. TODAY, in Enterprise 3.4 (which you will see a demo of later) we have {talk about the features listed}. And, most of these are available as APIS in the platform, so that you can build social features into your app without recreating the wheel. For example, the voting API (favoriting content, seeing what others have favorited, etc.) is available today in the platform for developers (just not exposed yet in the interface).Just as importantly – we continue to lead in making sure users can use Document management without changing their behavior – so our support of the Sharepoint Protocol and WebDav & CIFS continue to evolve. Check-in a document, discuss it inside Share, and then publish it to the web – all with Alfresco. You will see a demo of Share later on today.GIVE ANY ANECDOTAL EXAMPLES HERE: (I’m going to talk about how I use Adobe Creative Suite – PS, Illustrator, etc.). In a matter of minutes, I downloaded Adobe’s CMIS connecter for Adobe Bridge – linked it up to ts.alfresco.com – and now I can check-in and out Adobe files to Share, have discussions about them inside of Share, and kick-off workflows inside of Alfresco.
Here is a picture of social content management in action. On the bottom are the core capabilities of the Alfresco Platform… over the past 24 months, we (and our partners) have been working on proof-of-concepts and real-world implementations of Alfresco Content Management being able to manage content and expose repository functionality INSIDE OF social business systems. For example:Liferay, Jive, Lotus QuickR, Drupal, Google Docs(INSERT YOUR OWN CUSTOMER EXAMPLES HERE – IMPROVISE A BIT, IF YOU WANT).Three main points:Social content management is real, and we are already executing on itCMIS (and open standards) are the KEY to making it happenYou can have multiple Social Business Systems – and one Alfresco underneath. You could set a workflow to kick-off in Jive, for example, that would execute to publish something in Drupal – using Alfresco workflow.But wait – there’s more…. We aren’t JUST talking about platform here. We have been working to put more Social features in our own Apps… and more are coming. See next slide…
So – to sum things up – you will see Alfresco’s public positioning really evolve in 2011 – and I hope that, as you think about integration social systems into your enterprise – or integrating social features into your next applications – that Alfresco will be at the top of your list to consider for an underlying Content Management platform. Coming up – you will see a presentation on our roadmap – including a lot of new enterprise features that are coming out with Enterprise 3.4 – a demo of Share by {PARTNER NAME}, and a case-study about a solution that {PARTNER} has built on top of Alfresco’s open platform.