Welcome to the first of what we hope are many entries in the C3 Associates ECM blog. Through this blog the C3 team hopes to contribute to the ECM community by sharing our experiences designing and deploying Enterprise Content Management solutions.
First, a very (very) brief overview of who we are and what we do. C3 Associates is a vendor-neutral team of ECM experts based in beautiful Calgary, Alberta, home of the mighty Calgary Flames (who are pretty much a lock to win the Stanley Cup this year, but I digress). C3 does only one thing; design, deploy and support Enterprise Content Management systems. Our team has experience deploying most major ECM applications including Open Text Livelink, Livelink ECM eDocs (formerly Hummingbird DM), Microsoft SharePoint, EMC Documentum, IBM / FileNET and others.
Our hope is that by focusing only on ECM we can provide targeted solutions and help organizations solve their pressing content management challenges. We do this by focusing on people first, process second and finally looking at the technology that makes ECM happen. We will expand on these ideas as we go, but hopefully this provides you with an idea of what we’re all about.
C3 Associates is made up of three principals with over 30 years combined experience in the ECM space (and no, we’re not called C3 because there are three of us…more on that later);
C3 Associates believes that only when content is placed in context are people truly able to collaborate. Hence our name (and our slogan): Content + Context = Collaboration(TM)
Our goals for this blog are to:
Bridge the theory-practice gap. This seems especially pressing given Microsoft’s full-court-press into ECM, which has increased the general awareness of ECM (this is a good thing) but also has many people wondering exactly where the more robust Microsoft Office SharePoint Server fits into the ECM mix.
Talk about ECM in a Calgary context. This means that we’ll focus largely on the oil and gas industry, although most of the topics we discuss will have applicability well beyond oil and gas.
We will try to answer the “so what” questions associated with ECM technologies. ECM applications can do some great things, but if those great things are not matched with real-world requirements implementations are doomed to fail.
Share some technical insights into ECM applications. We will share the heartbreak and hope that comes from implementing and supporting a variety of ECM applications.
I promised John that I’d try to keep these posts short so I think I’ll call it an evening. Next posting I’ll share some of the ECM resources I find useful and will talk a bit about the evolving definition of ECM. Also look out for posts from the technical brains of the operation, John Meilleur.
Site looks good! Looks like you’ve got a great perspective on ECM . I look forward to reading more.
Comment by Simon Forman — March 26, 2007 @ 12:19 pm