Mike Clarke

Mike Clarke

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CEO, founder for Qtility Content Management and Consulting Ltd., and Qtility Software Ltd.

http://www.qtility.com

Bio

I have spent 12+ years as Documentum architect, deployment analyst, migration and integration specialist with experience in Records Management, Web Content Management , Document Management and Engineering Diagram Management. Coming from a background of database design and programming with imaging expertise I got into Document Management at the deep end by joining a Documentum distributor, Daleel Documentum, in the Middle East and then the Documentum main campus in Pleasanton, California. Those first few years were fascinating and challenging with so much to learn and so little time. Years have flown by and after 911 I found myself managing/administrating the North American Documentum installations for SquareD / Schneider-Electric (distributed repository) and then off into consulting and a move back to Calgary, Alberta where I have been helping organizations take on the difficult administrative and architectural Documentum challenges. What seems to be a calling of sorts is upgrading Documentum systems, migrating content between various versions and platforms and creating and implementing integrations to other systems such as PeopleSoft and SAP. Lately I have also been designing and implementing Documentum systems with heavy customizations and Records Management applications, including SharePoint integrations. One of the things I have become passionate about lately is using a unified taxonomy across the enterprise for document and records management. Too often I am called in to upgrade, consolidate and integrate large numbers of small,(and some not so small) single-purpose repositories that have been created in isolation but have become silos of business critical information that cannot be integrated into larger enterprise business processes. I advocate a large scale awareness and analysis on enterprise information and knowledge to facilitate a nimble information management strategy which allows organizations to adapt to today's rapidly changing environment.

Latest Blog Entries

Search vs Folders - When and Why

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Capture ECM SharePoint

This debate of search vs folder has been raging in the blogosphere for a few years now. Users are now used to both approaches, thanks to Windows Explorer and Google.  However few users understand h... read more

When Content Crosses Firewalls

ERM SharePoint Social Business

Documents cross firewalls all the time, as downloads from web sites, portals, FTP sites, email attachments, etc. Why should a CIO worry about this? It’s under control, right?  After all, th... read more

The Challenge - Should Records Management Be Centralized or De-centralized?

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ERM

We all know that, finally, organizations are going paperless.  A major effort ongoing in many departments as old paper records need to be scanned and stored is imaging and digital storage.  What is... read more

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Latest Discussions

xCP and EMC`s big Case Management Gamble

ERM Social Business Capture

EMC is taking Documentum in the direction of Case Management.  Case Management is the next logical step, imho, for records / content / document management  since it reflects the application of docu... read more

Confidential Information Needs to be Locked

Social Business

The recent Wikileaks event exposing thousands of White House state department confidential documents has highlighted not only the human side of diplomacy but the urgent need to lock individual file... read more

Best Practices for Leadership in Content Integration

Social Business

Best Practices for Leadership in Content Integration   Content integration is becoming a hot topic lately as organizations start to link their content/document/records management system... read more

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