This is my final Top 10 learnings list from this year's Burton Catalyst conference. This list relates to desktop virtualization, productivity suites, and enterprise content management:
- It will be 2012-2014 before companies do wholesale desktop replacement using virtual end-points.
- Licensing can be an issue with virtual desktops, especially with Microsoft and Oracle.
- Productivity suite options: 1) Stay with MS Office, 2) Give an alternative to disenfranchised users only, 3) Use an MS Office alternative - mostly, 4) Wait to dump MS Office until XML support improves, 5) Replace current productivity tools with collaboration tools.
- If you ever see Microsoft Office dethroned, it will be because there has been a fundamental shift in the content creation market.
- When you don’t treat content review like a project, you get all the same problems as a poorly run project.
- Content is the currency used by businesses to make decisions.
- Why isn’t there more use of digital rights management? Not perceived as having enough value, yet. However, it will grow in importance.
- One big gap for the non-Microsoft productivity suite vendors is their lack of integration with SharePoint.
- Think of structured and unstructured content as different views of corporate information.
- Don’t assume that all corporate information is inside the firewall.
