Biographical Information
Dan Carmel
CEO, SpringCM
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Dan Carmel brings more than 20 years of executive leadership experience to SpringCM. Prior to joining SpringCM, Carmel was an executive in residence at Foundation Capital, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Before joining Foundation Capital, he served as president and CEO of Itemfield, which was acquired by Informatica in 2005. Earlier, he served as vice president and general manager of the legal/professional services business unit for Interwoven, one of the leaders in the enterprise content management (ECM) market. Dan joined Interwoven as part of the successful merger between Interwoven and iManage, where he was vice president of marketing and business development.
Articles by Dan Carmel
SaaS ECM Evolves into the Cloud
16 Mar 2010
Last year, I wrote in this space about the advantages of SaaS-based ECM platforms. Since then, a variety of factors—including persistently tight IT budgets, lower headcount, business uncertainty and unrelenting pressure to grow through innovation...
SaaS-Based ECM Platforms
An Agile, Cost-Effective Approach for Enterprise Content Needs
01 Mar 2009
Enterprise content management (ECM) is based on the idea that companies can implement a single, unified platform that can be used cost-effectively to address a spectrum of content needs throughout the enterprise. However, the disappointing results of most ECM initiatives reveal the fallacy...
SaaS: Reinventing Enterprise Content Management
10 Jul 2008
Wikipedia defines "software as a service" (SaaS) as follows: "A software application delivery model where a software vendor develops a Web-native software application and hosts and operates (either independently or through a third-party) the application for use by its customers over the Internet." Two factors are driving the movement to SaaS. One is the significant technical improvements over the last decade. Computer hardware costs like CPUs, storage and network bandwidth have dropped significantly. In the last two years, memory prices have fallen by almost 75% and CPU prices have fallen by 50%, while capabilities like processing speed and capacity have increased significantly.
The second factor is that certain software applications are becoming standardized...