CMS Watch predicts move to simplicity in 2007

By Graeme Burton

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. “We expect to see more incremental changes, rather than epochal shifts. Despite all the industry mergers, new product versions and the ceaseless march of acronyms, the content technology industry does not, in fact, move very fast,” says CMS Watch.

However, the company does highlight a number of subtle shifts that many users will applaud. Microsoft, IBM and Google will continue in their elusive quest to bring greater simplicity to their content products, while promoting inexpensive collaboration, content management, portal and search technologies. Greater simplicity will help put such technology onto the desktops of more CEOs and other executive-level staff.

Other CMS Watch predictions also include:

1) Google will add greater flexibility to its Google Search Appliance, to meet demand from organisations that need to customise the popular product;

2) A backlash against AJAX web interfaces will gather pace in protest at the many poor user-interfaces developed using the technology;

3) Seat prices for enterprise content management (ECM) software will continue to fall thanks to the pressures created by the emergence of open-source ECM software and heightened competition between Microsoft and Oracle.

For more predictions, please visit www.cmswatch.com.