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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison could very well be driving around in his US$ 445,000 Lexus LFA right about now, laughing uncontrollably.

Rick Devenuti stepped into a mess when he first took the helm at EMC’s Information Intelligence Group (IIG), commonly known as Documentum (2010). When I asked him if he knew what he had gotten himself into, he gave a theoretical response, “Does anybody ever know?”

Facebook launched a Social Job Search App yesterday, positioning it as an altruistic move of sorts.

They say they want to be instrumental in putting the world back to work. 

EMC’s Information Intelligence Group is switching its focus from selling a platform on which customers build solutions to selling solutions (some via certified partners) that work out of the box with “infrastructure included” as an option, thereby shortening time-to-value.

"Where Information Lives" has been EMC’s tagline for years and years. It’s always conjured up images of storage devices for me. But not anymore.

EMC’s Information Intelligence Group (IIG) (formerly known as Documentum) promises to make “the largest product launch in IIG’s History” at its Momentum Europe Conference on Tuesday. Content Management enthusiasts, CM industry analysts, and the Documentum Community at large, are all waiting, eyes and ears open, to see and hear what it (they) will be.

SAP delivers efficient processing of massive data sets with real-time insights.

The term “Social” means different things to different people. Same for “Big Data” (believe it or not, some people even use it as a verb). And while in one sense their precise definitions don’t matter, if you’re using them as labels, they do. We need some clarification. Now, before their meanings get lost and become irretrievable.

Aaron Levie is on a mission. The Box co-founder and CEO has a dream: he wants workers everywhere to have hassle-free access to the documents and other content they need to do great work from anywhere, at any time, using any computer or mobile device.  

If there’s one thing that Enterprise Content Management industry veteran Whitney Bouck has heard plenty of rants about, it’s content silos. Or in simpler terms, not being able to easily access and/or share documents, files or other information, stored in one place from another.

Now that the Jersey Shore is in its final season and we’ve become desensitized to the catfights on the Housewives of Wherever series, how about a reality show featuring the rivalries in Enterprise Computing?

The big news out of Oracle OpenWorld this year is that Oracle is now the most comprehensive cloud provider on the planet with the most enterprise-grade applications, the most complete platform and the most modern socially enabled technology and applications.

And, yes, that is the company’s marketing jargon. Digest it as such.

What if someone told your CEO that he was making vital business decisions based on five percent of the useful data available to the company?

Needless to say, he wouldn’t be happy.

It’s a pretty safe bet that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff won’t be going to Oracle’s OpenWorld next week, but he’ll certainly be on the minds of many.

What do sales people gripe about? Aside from the crappy economy, customers who won’t make decisions, and lousy commissions; there’s managing and getting action on the overload of documents and approvals involved in a typical sales cycle.