{"id":1023,"date":"2009-12-14T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2009-12-14T07:00:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T15:00:16","slug":"ecm-forrester-names-top-ecm-vendors-open-source-breaks-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/ecm-forrester-names-top-ecm-vendors-open-source-breaks-through\/","title":{"rendered":"ECM: Forrester Names Top ECM vendors — Open Source Breaks Through"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a break from the normal, but then not too much of a surprise, the 2009 4Q Forrester Wave for ECM<\/a> report includes open source vendor Alfresco in the ranks of the top eight vendors in the ECM arena.\u00a0 Open Source companies for a long time have been omitted from research reports that rank vendors published by analyst firms like Gartner and Forrester.\u00a0 While reports from these analysts are always insightful and often do as much, if not more, in shaping industry trends as the vendors that they report on, the analyst firms have sometimes been accused of being biased<\/a> in their reporting of paying clients and also sometimes not including other vendors for consideration.<\/p>\n

The top four vendors, as ranked in this Forrester report, are megavendors EMC, IBM, Oracle and Open Text.\u00a0 Microsoft is ranked as ‘making inroads’.\u00a0 Hyland Software and HP are ‘strong performers’.\u00a0 And Alfresco is a ranked as ‘contender’. Forrester commented that advantages of Alfresco over other vendors include lower cost and smaller footprint.\u00a0 (Oracle provides a complimentary copy of the Forrester report here<\/a>.)
\nThe report comments:\u00a0 “Open source vendor Alfresco has been able to capture the attention of enterprises seeking an ECM suite alternative with a lower-cost and smaller footprint. Alfresco has strength in core document management and content services, provides a unified repository, and \u2014 as an open source product \u2014 excels in extensibility. Alfresco has also significantly invested in records management \u2014 historically a weakness \u2014 with new functionality set to be released in Q4 2009.”<\/p>\n

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In a break from the normal, but then not too much of a surprise, the 2009 4Q Forrester Wave for ECM report includes open source vendor Alfresco in the ranks of the top eight vendors in the ECM arena.\u00a0 Open…<\/span><\/p>\n

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