{"id":4719,"date":"2014-07-11T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2014-06-17T06:29:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T14:29:15","slug":"saas-and-ecm-the-benefits-of-managing-content-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/saas-and-ecm-the-benefits-of-managing-content-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"SaaS and ECM: The Benefits of Managing Content in the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SaaS-based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is predicted to grow at an average annual rate of 31 percent from 2013 to 2018, based on a <a title=\"SaaS ECM research report by Technavio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technavio.com\/report\/global-saas-based-ecm-market-2014-2018\" target=\"_blank\">report by TechNavio Research<\/a>. \u00a0This compares to the <a title=\"Global ECM market growth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technavio.com\/report\/global-enterprise-content-management-market-2014-2018\" target=\"_blank\">total global ECM market <\/a>which is expected to grow only 12 percent annually over the same period. \u00a0On-premise ECM still holds the bulk of the market share for the total ECM market space at 91 percent, <a title=\"Displaced on-premise ECM solutions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technavio.com\/pressrelease\/saas-based-services-edging-out-on-premise-solutions-in-the-global-enterprise-content\" target=\"_blank\">but on-premise is expected to be slowly displaced<\/a> by cloud-based solutions from now until 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The number of vendors with solutions in the cloud ECM space is growing. \u00a0Cloud ECM vendors include <a title=\"Alfresco Cloud\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alfresco.com\/products\/cloud\" target=\"_blank\">Alfresco<\/a>, <a title=\"Nuxeo Cloud\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxeo.com\/products\/nuxeo-cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nuxeo<\/a>, <a title=\"SpringCM cloud solutions\" href=\"https:\/\/www.springcm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SpringCM<\/a>, <a title=\"OpenText SaaS ECM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opentext.com\/what-we-do\/products\/enterprise-content-management\/ecm-in-the-cloud\" target=\"_blank\">OpenText <\/a>and <a title=\"EMC Cloud solutions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emc.com\/campaigns\/cloud-computing-redefined.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EMC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some <a title=\"Benefits of Cloud-based ECM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aiim.org\/documents\/chapters\/williampenn\/cloud_ecm_presentation_v5_aiim_wp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reasons why Cloud ECM is so attractive <\/a>compared to On-Premise ECM solutions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faster Startup<\/li>\n<li>Reliability<\/li>\n<li>Scalability<\/li>\n<li>Lifecycle Management. \u00a0Systems are easier to support and improve<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Faisel Gauss bio\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/profile\/view?id=9509330&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=I64C&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=16710601403014040375&amp;srchindex=1&amp;srchtotal=4&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_name&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A16710601403014040375%2CVSRPtargetId%3A9509330%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary\" target=\"_blank\">Faisal Ghaus<\/a>,\u00a0TechNavio Research Vice President, <a title=\"Faisal Ghaus on SaaS ECM\" href=\"http:\/\/talkincloud.com\/cloud-computing-research\/061714\/study-saas-based-ecm-services-expected-grow\" target=\"_blank\">said that<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;SaaS-based ECM provides all the benefits of on-premise ECM systems in a trouble-free environment so that customers can focus on their core business activities while achieving a significant reduction in the total cost of ownership,&#8221; said in the report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" 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