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posted 14 Nov 2005
EMC captures Captiva
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.
In many respects, the acquisition is a natural culmination of the increasingly close ten year relationship between Captiva and Documentum, the enterprise content management (ECM) software supplier EMC acquired in October 2003.
In a bid to re-assure wary Captiva customers, EMC Software president Dave DeWalt stressed that Captiva’s open platform would be maintained and that he would continue to work with Captiva partners.
As a result, there should be little to fear for customers. EMC Software has also promised that the open nature of Captiva’s platform will be respected – it will not be absorbed into the Documentum ECM platform.
Input management software, which is central to the process of scanning and digitising paper documents, is regarded as an important element of EMC’s information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy. ILM promises to bring ‘cradle-to-grave’ management to corporate information, although much of that promise has yet to be delivered.
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