He makes a good argument and SpringCM makes for a good buy for DocuSign, according to industry analyst Alan Pelz-Sharpe of Deep Analysis. “SpringCM pivoted a few years ago to focus on contract management and so digital signatures are an integral part of any delivered system. They were also arguably the first SaaS ECM system but were ahead of there time so the match up with DocuSign makes good sense.”
These days, all the talk is about how enterprise content management (ECM) is (to quote Gartner) “dead, kaput, finite, an ex-market name.” In some circles, the industry’s lexicon has moved on to a new term: content services. So, the question is, “Is there an ECM marketplace still?”
“Much of the work is getting other key players, who may be competitors, to also embrace blockchain as a way forward,” says Pelz-Sharpe.
There are literally thousands of ECM (Enterprise Content Management) systems deployed on premises, in repository silos, around the world. Often they contain hundreds of millions – and, in more cases than you might imagine, several billion – documents each.
“RPA is more of art, than science today,” says Alan Pelz-Sharpe, strategic advisor to rpa2ai, and adds, “aspects such as differing cultures, current state and the tech stacks can be major drivers for success of RPA initiatives.”Click Here
Alan Pelz-Sharpe, principal analyst at Deep Analysis, who has been watching this space for years says that consumer cloud storage pricing has always been a race to the bottom. “You can only make a margin with mass scale. That’s why firms who are not Microsoft, Amazon or Google are pushing hard for business and enterprise customers. Google One just brings that message home,” he said. If you get enough scale, as Dropbox has with an estimated 500 million users, if you can get a percentage to pay $8.25 a month for a terabyte of storage, it can add up to real money. When Dropbox filed its S-1 to before it went public earlier this year, it reported more than $1 billion in consumer revenue. It would be difficult if not impossible for a startup launching today to compete with the existing players, but the ones out there continue to compete with one another, driving the cost down even further.
Amidst all the hype and hoopla surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), it’s often the simple practicalities that get lost along the way. We spend much of our professional lives talking to organizations about their AI strategy, roadmap, and technology, and the most common question we hear is, “What’s the right approach to AI?”
Buyers and users of technology are becoming ever more wary at the corporate and individual level, and particularly so in Europe. Trust in the tech sector is, quite frankly, at an all-time low and free access to private data will no longer be so easily tolerated. Surely that should spell trouble for the likes of Twitter, Facebook and Google down the line and in turn open opportunities for European companies to grasp.
When any technology sector becomes ‘mature’ it gets into a rut. It’s as if there is a collective question of “Why change things, aren’t we are all doing just fine?”. Even so, over the past few years, things have begun to change, and the fundamentals of how an optimal ECM system might work in the future are being reimagined.
When any technology sector becomes ‘mature’ it gets into a rut. It’s as if there is a collective question of “Why change things, aren’t we are all doing just fine?”. Even so, over the past few years, things have begun to change, and the fundamentals of how an optimal ECM system might work in the future are being reimagined.