August 30, 2017 Posted in Blogs, ECM

In 2008, I worked on a Web Content Management (WCM) project for Accenture BPO. The client of Accenture spent 1.5 M on purchasing the license and package of the WCM system called Day Communique / CQ. The core team of Day Software contributed to Apache Jackrabbit – an open source content repository, then created the commercial CQ, which includes a content hierarchical repository CRX, an IDE CRX DE and the browser-based authoring and deployment interface. The unique tight bundle of content repository, IDE and smooth web-based deployment environment gains quite a bit clients quickly, especially for those who have deep pocket. In 2009, Day released CQ 5. In 2010, Day CQ 5 was acquired by Adobe and renamed to Adobe AEM (Adobe Experience Manager).

It has been ten years! Now Adobe AEM released ver...

July 31, 2017 Posted in Blogs

Alfresco is a well-designed open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. The initial release of Alfresco was in 2005. Comparing IBM FileNet (1980s), Oracle WebCenter Content (1980s, Stellent UCM), OpenText (1990s) and Documentum (1990s, Acquired by OpenText in 2016), Alfresco is quite new, which allows Alfresco build on completely new technology stacks. There’s no doubt that Alfresco is one of the best designed ECM system from architecture, performance and Web UI perspectives.

Alfresco is designed to run on Alfresco Application Server, as a series web applications, including alfresco.war, share.war, solr.war. Alfresco.war provides the platform services to mobile access (through REST APIs). Share.war offers Web UI...

June 30, 2017 Posted in Blogs, ECM

Content-as-a-Service (CaaS) is a service-oriented mode, where service provider provides content on demand to the content consumer as a service which is licensed under subscription. Many research institutions adopt this mode to provide services on line, such as Gartner, Forrester and Infotech, etc.

The core digital assets are stored in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. ECM manages the authoring, versioning, approval workflow, archiving and content retention policies, etc. Web Content Management (WCM) / Content Management System (CMS) is in charge of presenting these content on line.

In previous career life, I experienced multiple combinations between ECM and WCM in different organizations...