Re: the difference between WCM,ECM,LCM,MCM

joseph martins wrote:

> 
> The net for ECM has been cast so wide that your question is essentially
> moot. And the net continues to widen each year.
> 
> I believe there no longer exists any functionality that is truly unique to
> WCM (or any other *Ms for that matter).  You'd be hard pressed to find a
> feature that I could not point out in one or more so-called ECM systems
> (just look at the M&A activity of the past four years).
> 
> As if that isn't confusing enough to the average user, it gets worse.  Humor
> me as I take you on a brief journey beyond the boundary of CM as you know it
> today.
> 
> Storage technology vendors are positioning themselves to devour the content
> management market.  Not only are the players bigger and better-funded, but
> they have a far better understanding of the physical storage issues (backup,
> recovery, migration, replication, and archiving) that underpin CM.  Why
> target CM? Storage vendors are busy building momentum behind another
> buzzword concept known as Information Lifecycle Management (or ILM), one
> aspect of which is CM. If you haven't read about Information Lifecycle
> Management, hold on to your seat.  ILM incorporates both content management
> and storage management. The idea is to optimize the cost of physically
> storing information assets by moving assets to the most appropriate storage
> devices (over time) based on changing service level requirements and usage
> patterns (from high-end disk arrays for subsecond access, to mid-tier
> near-line storage, to low-end SATA arrays, to tape libraries for archiving).
> 
> I could go on and on but it's well beyond the scope of your original
> question.  Just thought you might like a glimpse of where the industry is
> headed.


hey Joe,

(I also read your blog) Interesting. But, you are talking about systems 
that are going to cost extreme amounts of money -- for the system and 
the consulting -- right? When you talk about storage management are you 
talking about relational databases or something new and different (Tamino?)?

And, is it really where the industry is going? Many times large 
organizations can use much less expensive and simpler solutions at the 
department level. If it it needs to be integrated into a grander scheme, 
then it can be transformed up (or down, depending on your point of view).

maybe it is a philosophy thing -- centralized or decentralized?? (maybe 
it is just the clients/situations we deal with)

When dealing with binary things, I believe (ideally...) they should be a 
result of content/data rather than storing and managing the thing 
itself. There are, of course, limits. But things like Word, PDF, Vector 
graphics, ?? can have component pieces stored in XML and managed there 
and rendered to some final result.

Do you see XML as something that can accomplish some of the things you 
write about (e.g. going from one system to another)?

best,
-Rob

> 
> I've begun to discuss these issues and more in a weblog
> (www.dmgrc.com/dmg/weblog/).
> 
> Joe

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