Author: Lindsay McCune

Gartner PCC, Day 1: Work-Life Integration 2.0 – The Empowered User

Gartner PCC, Day 1: Work-Life Integration 2.0 – The Empowered User

Our work and consumer worlds are colliding. But I'm not talking about how our experiences as consumers are making us want the same devices at work as we have at home (which is still very true!). At the keynote session of Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration (PCC), Gartner Fellow Tom Austin shared a new way to think about this work-life integration conundrum that even Dilbert is experiencing in this cartoon. Just like Dilbert, we all have lives outside of work. But, our roles as consumers (life) and employees (work) the lines are being blurred more and more. That blurring is apparent when we, the business people, are also the consumers who are demanding these changes in business. What changes are we asking for?

Novarica ACE Rankings: Shakespeare Meets Insurance Software Solutions

“What’s in a name?”Our dear Romeo and Juliet asked the same question. Understanding the answer to this query was a struggle for these star-crossed lovers – and is a contemporary concern for modern-day insurance technology buyers (follow me on this one). With so many buzzwords and acronyms surrounding us, understanding IT and even more so, enterprise content management (ECM) can be a challenge. Recently, Novarica's Average Customer Experience (ACE) Rankings were published (congrats to all the vendors ranked!). After looking at the category Hyland was ranked in - Document Management - something I’ve often considered finally clicked in my head. When it comes to ECM in insurance, most of us are still asking the same question as our Shakespearean friends, "What is in a name?" Document management? ECM? Imaging? Workflow? Records management? Collaboration? What’s the context for all of these terms? Here are just a few points to consider: