[Phoenix-pm] OT - "Enterprise" content management systems

[Scott Walters]

Hey Doug,

I didn't have to work with any of these directly, but I worked
with people who did, at Mot*rola.  My take on it is they're
all like aspirin... by the time you really need them to the
point where you'll go get one and use it, it's past the
point where it's strong enough to do any good.

If you need a content management system, you have a lot of data,
a lot of people accessing it, a lot of revisions, interdependencies,
etc.  And then you need more than what a CMS has to offer.
If you start on it before you need it, you might have a chance.
A lot of people (and myself only second hand) are of the opinion
that they basically aren't worth the bother.

I wonder if you could do something completely custom and minimal
and wind up with more flexibility and utility... work operations
tend to be strongly tied to the org chat.  If the org chat,
including work flow (who reports to who on what, including
ad hoc but long running relationships), and each person had
documents just throw out there (essentially ugo+r documents
in their file share), if a browser for those relationships wouldn't
would better.  If it's a call center, something else.  Or
manufacturing, something else again.

Oh well.  Just a thought.

Good luck.

-scott

On  0, "Douglas E. Miles" <perlguy at earthlink.net> wrote:
> All,
> 
> This is somewhat off topic.  Does anybody out there have any experience 
> with so-called Enterprise content management systems?  I'm talking about 
> systems from Interwoven, Vignette, Documentum, etc.  I'd like to hear 
> about any recommendations or good/bad experiences.  To make this more on 
> topic:  I'm especially interested to hear if Interwoven's TeamSite still 
> uses Perl.  The only information I can find is from 5-6 years ago.  If 
> it does, and it meets our other criteria, I'd certainly love to make a 
> case for it. :)  Thanks!
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