Comments on: Document Management, Where Have You Been All My Life? http://robinsontechnology.com/blog/2008/09/15/document-management-where-have-you-been-all-my-life/ Mostly Software, Sometimes Business, Always Technology Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:00:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Matt Asay http://robinsontechnology.com/blog/2008/09/15/document-management-where-have-you-been-all-my-life/comment-page-1/#comment-16916 Matt Asay Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:49:32 +0000 http://robinsontechnology.com/blog/2008/09/15/document-management-where-have-you-been-all-my-life/#comment-16916 The problem is that the ECM industry has done a shoddy job of marketing its wares, and I'm not sure that Alfresco has yet to fully redeem it yet. SharePoint has tended to be the best of the bunch, but you rightly point out that even it fails to simplify something like document management that really should be brain-dead simple. The good news is that this means we have a lot of work to do. The easier it becomes, the bigger the market becomes. Welcome to the machine. The problem is that the ECM industry has done a shoddy job of marketing its wares, and I’m not sure that Alfresco has yet to fully redeem it yet. SharePoint has tended to be the best of the bunch, but you rightly point out that even it fails to simplify something like document management that really should be brain-dead simple.

The good news is that this means we have a lot of work to do. The easier it becomes, the bigger the market becomes. Welcome to the machine.

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