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Intelligent Enterprise Contributing Editor:Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Alan Pelz- Sharpe

Alan Pelz-Sharpe is a principal and analyst at CMS Watch, covering enterprise content management technologies and practices. An 18-year veteran of the document technology industry, we was formerly a strategist at Wipro and VP North America for analyst firm Ovum.

Recent Articles By Alan Pelz-Sharpe
Put to the Test: Open Text LiveLink
The largest of the remaining enterprise content management independents, Open Text offers a diverse suite with plenty of application- and industry-specific solutions, search capabilities and deployment approaches. Product integration and technology consolidation remain works in progress, but LiveLink ECM should be on the short list when SAP integration or regulatory demands are important.

Put to the Test: Alfresco Enterprise Content Management
Alfresco is a scalable and well-architected open source alternative for ECM, but lacking industry-specific, out-of-the-box applications, its best appeal is to developers and ISVs.

Put to the Test: Xythos Enterprise Document Manager 6.0
Xythos offers a low-cost-yet-scalable approach to document and records management that is refreshing, but it lacks the breadth and depth of the leading enterprise content management suites.

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Blog: ECM Trendwatch
by Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Alfresco Offers SharePoint Alternative
Microsoft SharePoint goes open source? Shock, horror! Ok, well not quite, but an open source alternative to SharePoint is now an option with the release of Alfresco's Lab 3 Beta product. Alfresco's new module allows you to hook Office into Alfresco, giving you the option to use Alfresco as opposed to SharePoint as your collaboration platform.
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08. 1.2008

Legal Ruling Shakes Up E-mail Archiving
The whole issue of E-mail Archiving and Management (EAM) has come under the spotlight recently, triggered by a ruling by the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco — a ruling that touches on the Fourth Amendment "Protection from unreasonable search and seizure."... It's a ruling that could have a huge impact on the EAM market.
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07. 3.2008

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