http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2006/09/05/709 Jeff Potts on ECM, portals, search, collaboration, and a bunch of personal stuff Mon, 14 May 2012 10:48:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2006/09/05/709/comment-page-1#comment-2348 ecmarchitect.com » Enterprise 2.0 whether you want it or not Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:32:43 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2006/09/05/709#comment-2348 [...] Back in September I wrote a post about open source software driving the re-birth of “Shadow IT” outfits. Here’s a post that backs me up. Dion Hinchcliffe over at ZDNet cites examples of firms where wikis are proliferating un-checked. While his post is about Enterprise 2.0 and mine was about open source software more generally, the conclusion is the same: IT departments need to move now to facilitate the adoption of these tools or they will be faced with seriously fragmented technology footprints and data silos a-plenty. [...] [...] Back in September I wrote a post about open source software driving the re-birth of “Shadow IT” outfits. Here’s a post that backs me up. Dion Hinchcliffe over at ZDNet cites examples of firms where wikis are proliferating un-checked. While his post is about Enterprise 2.0 and mine was about open source software more generally, the conclusion is the same: IT departments need to move now to facilitate the adoption of these tools or they will be faced with seriously fragmented technology footprints and data silos a-plenty. [...]

]]> http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2006/09/05/709/comment-page-1#comment-2066 ecmarchitect.com » Proprietary ECM solutions continue to aggravate resource availability issue Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:45:10 +0000 http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2006/09/05/709#comment-2066 [...] As for the second point, freely-available open source ECM solutions are more likely to find their way into the hands of developers (and the servers of enterprises, see this post) because there are no barriers to entry. This should result in a larger pool of resources experienced with working with ECM, in general, as well as specific open source solutions. [...] [...] As for the second point, freely-available open source ECM solutions are more likely to find their way into the hands of developers (and the servers of enterprises, see this post) because there are no barriers to entry. This should result in a larger pool of resources experienced with working with ECM, in general, as well as specific open source solutions. [...]

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