Enterprise Information Management

So, I finally made it to the Gartner PCC conference this year – in spite of budget cuts, travel cuts and continued pressure on the business to optimize costs and deliver results only to find that the most a la mode ‘new’ FLA (Four Letter Acronym, as opposed to TLA...Three Letter Acronym) this quarter was CEVA – Content Enabled Vertical Applications.  That seems like a mouthful...but it is an interesting concept.  My issue with it is that we have had content rich applications for a long time, so what’s new?  The fundamental difference between what we had before and what we have now is that we have finally figured out that knowledge/ information workers do not work in ‘process-mode’ they work in ‘network-mode’ . I think that that the key word here should be ‘Collaborative’ and not ‘Content’.  So, I am going to attempt to come up with my own TLA – ‘Collaborative Business Solutions’. These are a genre of business solutions that require collaboration amongst information workers to get the job done. Solutions such as Contract Management, Litigation Support, Correspondence Support etc. I would like to start a thread based on this to come up with a collaborative definition of CBA.  Let me know your thoughts...