Ernst van Rheenen

It’s any vendors goal to create new revenue streams whenever possible, and it’s not any different in the archiving business. Enterprise Information Archiving (EIA) vendors, however, have a problem that …

What if you want to migrate tens of millions of documents and more than 100 sites? And what if downtime during bulk migration must be reduced to zero? Then manual …

In recent years we have been spoiled with the rapid development of technology. All kinds of smart internet services and gadgets have made our lives easier, and more fun. At …

In the beginning of 2016, Microsoft stopped offering unlimited storage on OneDrive. Existing users could keep the 15GB storage as long as they registered for it. For all other users …

In January 2016 a Dutch TV program reported that 5,600 medical records of Dutch patients were prepared for digitization (free of staples and paper clips) by Belgian prisoners. Although the …

It all looks bright and shiny when you set the first steps into deploying your new ECM platform. Everyone is enthusiastic and the sky is the limit when it comes …

In an earlier post I explained why metadata matters. This time I want to zoom out a little and discuss how to assess the quality of your document collection. Essential …

In 2011, the ASR insurance corporation initiated a companywide project to make the move to the SharePoint platform with both their ECM and WCM systems. For the business the new …

Not too long ago metadata was seen as an unwanted necessity. From just a WCM SEO tool ten years ago, metadata has evolved into a powerful mechanism that brings relevant …

Moving from an existing platform to SharePoint is challenging: it’s a flexible system without much predefined structure. Don’t underestimate data migration. It can be hard to put a label on …

In the ever more complex ECM/WCM application landscape, it is difficult to oversee the implications of a platform migration. Synchronization solutions offer an intermediate solution for a more smooth transition …

We migrated the intranets of 9 Dutch ministries to the centralized Rijksportaal intranet. Learn how we approached this website migration project and how our client has benefited. The Dutch central …

After the merger of the Dutch and German regions of a large energy company, the organization needed a new multilingual corporate intranet in SharePoint 2010. The source systems were Livelink …

CMS vendors quickly adapt to the rapid developments in web technology. This can be a hurdle when you want to upgrade an older CMS version to a more recent one …

With digital storage in abundance, more and more companies see themselves faced with the million-document challenge: How do I get my one million plus documents into a new system? Familiar …