While surfing around today I found this video on YouTube that explains ECM in 'laymans' terms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-DmGNX0ohM
And as you say Dylan, it does appear to include 'capturing' documents as one ECM feature. Thanks, Tim On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 15:46 +1100, Dylan Jay wrote: > On 04/12/2009, at 7:25 PM, Maurizio Delmonte wrote: > > > Ciao Godefroid! :) > > > > Unfortunately Dylan is right.. > > > > Plone is pushed on the "low" side of the chart.. and is not on "ECM" > > line, but *only* on > > "Enterprise Portal", "Web Content Management" and "Social Software > > and Collaboration" lines, > > which connotates Plone as quite peculiar. > > > > What i feel about the *why": probably they take into account just > > the Plone out-of-the-box experience, > > which to be considered an ECM at version 3.x is missing at least: > > > > - a good *blobs story* out-of-the-box (which version 4 is solving > > really well) > > > > - a good *index&search story*, which we can deploy only thanks to > > extensions (collective.solr above all the rest..) > > If wikipedia is to be believed then my guess is archiving, desktop > integration and scanning is perhaps what's missing? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_content_management > > "New product suites have arisen from the combination of capture, > search and networking capabilities with technologies of the content > management field, which have traditionally addressed digital > archiving, document management and workflow. Generally speaking, this > is when content management becomes enterprise content management. The > different nomenclature is intended to encompass all of the problem > areas related to the use and preservation of information within an > organization, in all of its forms — not just its web-oriented face to > the outside world." > > I know systems like TRIM handle imaging and archiving etc which plone > doesn't normally integrate with. Sharepoint integrates with exchange > and desktop sharing in ways Plone doesn't do as comprehensively. > Anyone familiar with Alfresco know what it can do that Plone doesn't > that qualifies as ECM? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Evangelism mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism _______________________________________________ Evangelism mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
