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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
An RFP is a tool used to purchase products and services by promoting competitive proposals among vendors. Through this competitive process, vendors offer an array of potential solutions and prices and compete with each other to win your business. Buyers evaluate the many different vendor solutions and pick the one that most closely fits their project requirements and budget. An RFP is a vehicle that allows both the buyer and the vendor to establish a dialogue and to work from the same set of rules, requirements, schedules, and information. The opportunity to have this dialogue is an important element in the process because requirements are not always clear and the vendor, as the expert in a given technology, is allowed to question and interpret what is being requested by the buyer. Conversely, the buyer has the opportunity to question and clarify issues in vendor proposals to ensure that the product fits the need.
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I'm on vacation this week on the Outer Banks of North Carolina in a little town called Buxton at the tip of Hatteras Point. As a result, I've had a lot of time to ride my bike and sit on the beach and watch the waves and wait for some Enterprise 2.0 Vacation Epiphanies. And as strange (and nerdy) as it may seem, I've actually had a few (epiphanies, as well as beers).
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Making an ECM implementation successful requires planning and attention to detail. The best way to create the right solution is to identify organizational goals and priorities. Learn how to manage a successful implementation in our free guide.
I'll be taking a bit of vacation over the next two weeks, so I thought I would take the opportunity of highlighting a few books on my Summer reading list. One of the good things about using a Kindle or Kindle on an iPad for reading is the ability to use highlights to create a running summary of a book's highlights. Even better is that these highlights are aggregated across ALL readers. So in effect, any book can have a built-in summary, generated by the wisdom of the crowds - pretty cool stuff. So in my vacation posts, I'll highlight a few books I've enjoyed recently and some Kindle-generated excerpts to give you a snapshot of the contents.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Enterprise content management is already composed of a complex, broad set of ideas and technologies - over the next 5 years, a convergence of trends across multiple software categories will have a massive impact on this space. This list is by no means exhaustive, as vendors will also need to deal with evolving challenges around security, retention, workflow, capture, and other aspects of ECM, but the following eight trends will fundamentally change how we build and deploy content management solutions:
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I'll be taking a bit of vacation over the next two weeks, so I thought I would take the opportunity of highlighting a few books on my Summer reading list. One of the good things about using a Kindle or Kindle on an iPad for reading is the ability to use highlights to create a running summary of a book's highlights. Even better is that these highlights are aggregated across ALL readers. So in effect, any book can have a built-in summary, generated by the wisdom of the crowds - pretty cool stuff. So in my vacation posts, I'll highlight a few books I've enjoyed recently and some Kindle-generated excerpts to give you a snapshot of the contents.
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After years of paying lip service to search engine optimization (SEO), the time for enterprises to seriously consider this online marketing channel has finally come. The traditional online marketing channels - paid search, display advertising, and email – are all experiencing saturation, fierce competition, and lower returns on investments. As a result, marketing organizations are discovering SEO to be the most promising alternative for acquiring new customers. But there is some heavy-lifting that needs to be done before SEO can become a consistent revenue-generating channel with positive ROI.
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