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ECM Briefs Editor 18 hours ago
Not a whole lot happened this week since it's Thanksgiving in the US, but we do have a few good things to recap: • According to Deb Lavoy: social media is not a strategy • Later in the week Deb Lavoy had a meeting of the minds • Alison Clarke spoke more about contract management in her webinar Effective Contract Management is Just Smart Business We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!
ECM Briefs Editor 8 days ago
Missed some of our Conversations and News this week? Here's a recap: An independent analyst report positions Open Text as a leader in Enterprise Content Management We give a few highlights here and here from Content World A new podcast explains how content-enriched business processes from SAP deliver rapid ROI Guest blogger Alison Clarke writes about making contracts count Open Text deepened its integration with SAP® Solutions across the ECM Suite with content-enriched business processes Martin Sumner-Smith says sometimes the biggest changes sneak up on you
ECM Briefs Editor 8 days ago
With the dust settling behind such a whirlwind week, we're happy to say that Content World welcomed over 1,200 attendees at our annual event. A big thanks to all customers, partners and staff for the great participation. Conference highlights of the five day event include: The annual Partner Day for Open Text partners A training program which featured over 30 workshops and courses and 360 enrollments A standing ovation for the keynote address from Wired Magazine's Rave Award Winner, Dr. Michael Wesch The 2009 GlobalStar Enterprise and ECM Champion Awards, celebrating individual and Enterprise Award winners The General Session from Open Text executives on corporate vision and product strategy, plus a product launch and roadmap release Specialized receptions and User Group Days for both industry and product users Content World 2010 announced for November 7-12, 2010 in Washington, DC Miss the conference? We've got you covered. Over 1200+ tweets were ...ECM Briefs Editor 10 days ago
If you're not effectively managing your contracts, you're not effectively managing your business. It's as simple as that. A poorly managed contract leaves money on the table--discounts not taken, performance incentives achieved but unpaid, agreed upon price increases never enforced. Plus, an unmanaged contract is a potential source of regulatory and operational risk. The Contract--Much More than a Document Contracts touch virtually every area of the enterprise, defining relationships with partners, suppliers, customers, and even employees. Contracts should protect a business from risk--operational and regulatory--lock in favorable pricing and payment terms with suppliers and customers, define acceptable service levels, and provide enforceable remedies when those terms are breached. A document that does all that is bound to be complex, and contracts most definitely are. They often stretch to hundreds of pages, with clauses and amendments crafted and vetted by expensive legal teams ...
ECM Briefs Editor 22 days ago
In the world of rich media, it was the publishers, broadcasters, and marketing agencies who first found themselves about a decade ago swimming in a sea of digital photos, large digital videos, various types of audio files. Today any organization with a marketing or communications need, by which I mean every organization, has a need to manage rich media - whether it's for talking with customers, partners, or often just their own employees. Today the content companies are rapidly exploring an important new phase of media management, one in which their content frequently traverses the corporate firewall. They do so because they have found that as compelling as their websites can be, there are many conversations of which they would like to be a part that are taking place across the greater internet, and in particular within both the very large and very small social networks from Twitter and Facebook to alumni and local community forums. The same need is rapidly growing among all ...
