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ECM: The 2007 Gartner Magic Quadrant for ECM

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner is out again with their review of the ECM industry for 2007. The industry heavy-weights remain pretty much the same as from previous years, although recent consolidations have changed the names a bit. For example, “FileNet” and “Stellent” are…

ECM: Are Content Management Standards Possible?

By Dick Weisinger

The Enterprise Content Management (ECM) lacks a well-adopted industry-wide set of standards. Actually they lack standards that have achieved almost any sort of acceptance. That’s a problem. Within enterprises, Content Management solutions often start as departmental projects and tend to…

ECM: Sharepoint 2007 not the Whole Picture to Microsoft's Data Management Initiative

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft took a swing at the ECM market with it’s Sharepoint 2007 product. Prior versions of Sharepoint were pretty feable in their attempt to address document and content management functionality. Early reviewers have been generally positive in the new capabilities.…

ECM: Salesforce.com takes on SaaS ECM

By Dick Weisinger

“Products like Documentum and SharePoint have failed,” said Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com. Benioff’s plan for “content management as a service” is to mix ECM and SaaS with a little Web 2.0 to come up with an on-Demand service that…

ECM: Continued Growth in Content Management

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner is predicting that the Enterprise Content Management market will continue to grow at a healthy 12 percent per year through 2010. Recent numbers for 2007, like those from Open Text, coming in at around 10 percent, are confirming this…