Around the World in 11 Days (Part 1)
Recently, I set off from San Francisco on an around-the-world trip to visit a number of our key customers and to pay a much needed visit to our Center of Excellence in Bangalore. If I can’t find...
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On Monday, I shared with you some customer stories from the first week of my 11-day trip around the globe. After several months of getting acclimated in my new role as General Manager of the Documentum...
View ArticleBreaking Down Barriers with Documentum Capital Projects Express
Regardless of the industry, technology decisions are complex these days. There are competing business requirements to balance, as well as the steady-state and legacy systems that must be maintained....
View ArticleProjects Remain Critical – Despite Uncertain Oil Prices
Large-scale capital projects have always been the lifeblood of Energy companies. From offshore platforms, refineries, and pipelines to power generation plants and transmission lines, these projects...
View ArticleMapping the Future with Documentum Asset Operations Mobile
Last month, I shared with you some of the inside details of Project Horizon, our next-generation, multi-tenant content platform that is meeting the new needs of today’s digital enterprises. While all...
View ArticleBrownfield Projects Strategies Key Amidst Lower Oil Prices
One of the main tenants of economic theory is that, during a recession, businesses focus on efficiency improvements rather than growth to grow profits and gain competitive advantage. This strategy also...
View ArticleManaging Projects in Oil & Gas Has Never Been More Critical
EMC recently commissioned IDC to research how oil & gas companies manage capital projects. In this week’s blog, we’ve asked Chris Niven to add some perspective to this research and the current...
View ArticleMoving Towards an Information Model for Capital Projects
My first job was as a software developer in a major Spanish EPC company. I was hired to develop a search engine able to query the myriad of different systems and in-house applications available in the...
View ArticleDocumentum Capital Projects Embraces the Third Platform
Over the past four years, the EMC Documentum Capital Projects solution has evolved from a Documentum system configuration to a fully-fledged industry solution. Two years ago, we introduced Documentum...
View ArticleCatching a Breath, and Prepping for Energy’s Future
I was driving into the office and swerving to avoid potholes and large cracks on a popular highway here in California. “Why can’t they fix this road,” I thought, and this in fact led me to think about...
View ArticleLaying a Strong Foundation for Major Capital Projects
Major capital projects, like factories, oil rigs, dams, and energy plants, are complex endeavors that typically span years, even decades. Because these assets require enormous investment over long...
View ArticleSurprise! No More Solution Customizations
Things are not always what they seem, as the earliest of Roman writers pointed out, and the same is true today in our content management-driven world. As every enterprise seeks its own digital...
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