Mid-market ECM
21 Feb 2005
When deploying an enterprise-content-management system, mid-size companies would do well to avoid ‘vendor envy’. By Jessica Twentyman.
When it comes to choosing an enterprise-content-management (ECM) system, Meta Group analyst Andrew Warzecha has a simple piece of advice for mid-size companies: Bigger is not necessarily better.
Too often, he says, these kinds of organisations – which he defines as those with between 500 and 5,000 employees – suffer from a condition he calls ‘vendor envy’; that is to say, they long to deploy the kind of end-to-end, enterprise-class ECM packages from companies such as Documentum, FileNet, Interwoven and Vignette that are typically implemented by far larger organisations.
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ECM growth outpaces overall software market
14 Sep 2005
The drive among organisations towards compliance and process efficiency is fuelling the enterprise-content-management (ECM) market, which currently outstrips other major software sectors in growth terms, according to analysts at IT market research company Forrester Research.
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News: Xerox gets serious about ECM
10 Apr 2006
Imaging giant Xerox has made it clear that it has serious ambitions in the enterprise content management (ECM) market with the announcement of two new products in late March 2006: a new upgrade to Docushare (version 5.0) and the launch of a new product, Docushare CPX.
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AIIM explores role of ECM in storage decisions
18 Jan 2006
A recent study by AIIM, the enterprise content-management (ECM) association, has reported continued growth and requirement for content-management storage solutions in organisations.
The report, ‘The Role of ECM in Storage Decisions: The Why, What, and How of Storing Business Critical Information’, found that storage of unstructured information is increasing in mindshare within a large segment of the end-user community.
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FileNet looks to consolidate leadership position
5 Aug 2005
With the launch of the latest version of its P8 enterprise content management (ECM) platform and a number of partnerships with key storage system vendors, FileNet is looking to consolidate its position as the market leader in ECM. Speaking at the company’s June 2005 European user conference in Prague, FileNet CEO Roberts told EI that, in the eight years he has spent at the company, he has never seen the amount of demand and interest in ECM that the company is now experiencing.
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Feature: Digital asset management
8 Nov 2006
The management of digital assets that organisations use to convey their brand image and message to the world is in a mess. It’s time to put that right, says Jessica Twentyman.
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News: FileNet and Hummingbird lose independence
11 Sep 2006
Enterprise content management (ECM) software suppliers FileNet and Hummingbird have both been acquired by rivals within the space of a few days.
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News: FileNet's vision unchanged
25 Jul 2006
FILENET’S P8 enterprise content management (ECM) suite is a high-end product for high-end customers – and the company plans to stick to that strategy, according chief executive Lee Roberts.
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Hummingbird to acquire RedDot
5 Aug 2005
Enterprise-content-management (ECM) software vendor Hummingbird has acquired RedDot, a supplier of web-content-management (WCM) software, for b30.1m, with a further b4.5m to be paid at the end of the year, based on performance targets.
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Trend tracker: Open source content management
1 Mar 2006
According to Ian Dolphin, head of e-strategy at the University of Hull, the market for packaged content-management software is “seriously immature”. It is, he says, awash with costly products that are complex to implement and which frequently fail to address the demands of many vertical industries, including the higher education sector.
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News: Stellent swoops on content security specialists
11 Sep 2006
Enterprise content management (ECM) software vendor Stellent has announced the acquisition of two companies specialising in content security, SealedMedia and Bitform.
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Profile: Dave DeWalt
15 Jun 2005
In the eighteen months since storage-systems giant EMC acquired enterprise-content-management company Documentum, life has changed considerably for Documentum’s former chief executive Dave DeWalt.
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Cover story: E-forms
11 Sep 2006
The new breed of e-form is more flexible, more dynamic and more responsive to the needs of end-users than its predecessors. But in order to live up to that promise, tight integration with back-end systems using XML is a prerequisite.
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Documentum explains vision behind 5.3 release
15 Jun 2005
With the March 2005 launch of the latest upgrade to its enterprise-content-management (ECM) system (Documentum 5.3), EMC Documentum announced over 50 new features and functions – so it was hardly surprising that the company used its European user conference in Barcelona in late May to explain these enhancements to over 1,250 attendees.
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Order from chaos
7 Apr 2005
Organisations are drowning under a flood of information. Are content-management systems the answer?
Faced with an avalanche of information, and the increasing burden of compliance with national, international and industry regulations and legislation, organisations are more confused than ever about what they should – and should not – be storing...
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Cover feature: Working together
31 Jan 2007
Managing the production of co-authored documents can be an onerous task. Thankfully, there has never been a greater choice of tools to help the process run smoothly. By Jessica Twentyman
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Making electronic documents legally valid
13 May 2005
After several years of struggling to comply with a slew of regulatory and legal mandates, most companies now recognise the importance of securing the confidentiality, integrity and availability of their electronic documents as part of a corporate-wide records-management strategy – even if they don’t yet practice it with the stringency required of them.
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News: CMS Watch predicts move to simplicity in 2007
31 Jan 2007
IT market analyst company CMS Watch has seen in the New Year by releasing its 12 predictions for 2007 – with a warning that not much is likely to happen.
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News: Oracle buys Stellent
28 Nov 2006
ORACLE HAS put an end to industry speculation about its intentions in the enterprise content management (ECM) market with the purchase of Stellent in a $440m deal. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2006.
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EMC captures Captiva
14 Nov 2005
Storage hardware maker EMC has further fleshed out its software portfolio with the £275m purchase of input management software specialist Captiva – the latest in a series of big software purchases by EMC over the past three years.
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Abbey National Bank's content lifecycle
31 Aug 2004
You create it, nurture it, use it and eventually, you lose it – and no, it’s not your hair. The riddle that is your enterprise’s content lifecycle can be tricky to figure out, but doing exactly that is an essential process for any business. Peter Greenfield, online channels manager at Abbey National Bank, explains how to do so.
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In brief
5 Aug 2005
Oracle boosts its search capabilities...Proofpoint advances messaging security...Gartner places IBM in magic quadrant...plus more industry news in brief.
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Cover story: Negotiating the RM standards maze
3 May 2006
Standardisation is meant to make life easier for everyone, but the profusion of records management standards – and their comings and goings – has not necessarily made life easier for records managers.
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Cover story: Software asset management
14 Sep 2005
In July 2005, software giant Microsoft found itself better off to the tune of £750,000 when it reached settlement with two UK customers that had been found to be using unlicensed versions of the company’s software. That sum might be small fry to Microsoft (which in its last full fiscal year reported a net income of £8.2bn), but certainly not for the customers involved.
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The big blog debate
15 Mar 2005
Recent coverage of weblogs, more commonly known as blogs, has highlighted both the opportunities and the potential dangers the medium presents. There is no getting away from the rapid increase in interest blogging is generating among knowledge-focused professionals, however, and more organisations seem ready to take a leap of faith and incorporate blogs in their KM toolkit. By Jessica Twentyman.
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In brief
14 Sep 2005
Stellent powers local council website... Gartner cites key emerging technologies... plus product launches and other industry news in brief.
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Feature: Dangerously good
21 Jul 2006
New developments in data capture technologies are making it easier than ever to transform paper documents and forms into digital information.
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Hummingbird unveils RedDot integration plans
29 Nov 2005
Hummingbird CEO Barry Litwin has sought to reassure RedDot web-content management (WCM) software users, by fleshing out the company’s integration plans. The takeover was essential for Hummingbird, says Litwin.
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Trend tracker: Mobile working
15 Jun 2005
Recently, the number of subscribers to Research in Motion’s Blackberry wireless platform surpassed the three million mark, with one million of those signing up in the last six months. With Blackberry devices aimed squarely at the professional – as opposed to the consumer – it is a sure sign that the mobile workforce is becoming a reality.
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Special focus: E-learning
1 Mar 2006
On the surface, e-learning ought to be a no-brainer. By virtualising many aspects of training, an organisation can radically cut costs, while broadening access to learning of all types. In the process, the organisation can also keep a closer eye on the skills of its workforce, which can help in terms of compliance, ensuring an adequately skilled workforce, putting staff in touch with one another when there’s a technical question to be answered and, of course, in filling vacant positions.
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Cover story: Compliance - driving the storage boom?
18 Jan 2006
“I was talking to an end user who had been in a situation where he had lost his organisation’s back-up tapes,” says Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. “When we got talking about the processes in place at the time, he told me that tapes often sat on the counter for up to three days before being taken off site for storage. Can you believe that? It is one big flaw.”
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Case study: Gist
14 Nov 2005
Gist is a leading supply-chain specialist with an annual turnover of £293.2m. It works with customers including Marks & Spencers and British Airways – offering end-to-end supply chain solutions across the globe – and moves £10bn of merchandise every year. Communication is therefore an essential business tool in ensuring that the company meets its promise to its customers, of getting the right things to the right place at the right time.
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Showcase: Simon Forster profiles Diagonal’s flagship EDRM solution, Wisdom
23 Dec 2004
Diagonal’s approach to the information market is based around identifying opportunities where technology can be implemented based upon the integrated needs of the process and not simply by looking at the silo centric needs of individual technologies. To this end, our value added competencies are not just based around our track record of supplying Microsoft Content Management Server (MS CMS), but doing so in a way that provides both incremental opportunities for MS products such as Office 2003, Visio, MOM and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server (SPS), and also a more holistic solution for the customer by supplementing CMS with collaborative and electronic-document and records-management (EDRM) solutions.
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