With the New Year nearly upon us, it’s no surprise that companies have begun releasing predictions for the technology industry in 2016. Independent technology analyst firm Ovum has joined in with its prediction that says the enterprise content management (ECM) space has entered a new period of rapid evolution. In its 2016 Trends to Watch report on Enterprise Content Management, Ovum outlines the major factors it expects will shape the ECM market in the coming year. These factors include content analytics, the security of content and increased concern over compliance and governance risks.
Before anything else, make sure you instil the following message into your company's culture and never, ever forget it: The purpose of documentation is to transfer the right information to the right people at the right time. Anything that interferes with this objective is at best a waste of time, at worst downright dangerous.
Working across a number of industries over the last few years it always surprised me that Big Data projects either struggle with meeting records management requirements or ignore them altogether. My surprise comes from the fact that not only is Records Management a compliance practice, but it is one that can literally pay for itself.
Disclaimer: I am a GUI guy by trade. I’ve worked in user interfaces since I was 6. Yes, I wrote code in BASIC back in junior high, but it was never “fun”. I like to just fire the thing up, look at it, tweak it, and run it. Code has to be remembered, researched, and formatted. It’s picky. It doesn’t like to be “just written”. Brackets have to be flawless. Case matters. So many things to think about.
As the world moves towards the big data era, society will undergo a major shift. Big data is already transforming many aspects of our life and forcing us to reconsider basic principles, as we evaluate how to best utilise big data while preventing potential harm. Simple changes to existing rules will not be sufficient to temper big data’s dark side.
Most documentation goes unread, for good reason: most documentation isn’t worth reading. It is rare to find an organisation where the documentation isn’t a shambles. Most often, you find a mess of documents that are badly written, incompetently edited, at least partly out-of-date, inconsistent, and boring.
Each platform and vertical industry “hires its own.” SAP teams want SAP people. Healthcare teams want healthcare experts. Salesforce teams look for SalesForce developers. Banks look for financial services people. It's the way of the workplace. SharePoint is no exception. Being a “SharePoint person” conveys membership in a deep-dive community of technical expertise that speaks its own language, from farms and site collections to Designer workflows and PowerShell scripts.
How many times a day do we hear or read the word “data”? Then it is changed for “information” to avoid being used too often. If we adopt the proposition that “All information is data but not all data is information”; what does a business need to do with either or both?
Sean Nathaniel, Chief Technology Officer of Upland Software and General Manager of the company’s FileBound ECM division, wants to foment a revolution in the way organisations plan, manage and execute work.
Each year ABBYY holds numerous International Technology Summits, where we share our latest product innovations and future technology roadmaps with our partners and developers.
