ECM evaluation
ECM (Enterprise content management ) - is a set of technologies used to capture, store, preserve and deliver content and documents and content related to organizational processes. ECM tools allow the management of an organization's unstructured information, wherever that information exists.
ECM employed the technologies and strategies of content management to address business process issues, such as records and auditing, knowledge sharing, personalization and standardization of content, and so on.
Today we released a major update to our Enterprise Content Management technology evaluations. Our release
highlights some important trends, most notably some new mobile interfaces coming
down the pike. Our team will share some more details about those trends in the
coming weeks.
Meantime, if you're a subscriber, you'll receive your updated edition shortly.
If not, and you want the inside story on ECM vendor pros and cons, you can purchase the report here, and you can always check out a free
sample first.
Today I'm proud to announce the release of the 2009 edition of The ECM
Suites Report. Expanded out to over 400 pages, I believe this constitutes
the most comprehensive ECM product evaluation report of its kind. In this
edition we have added some new vendors, dropped some old, and revised
all 30 product reviews.
This churn reflects a vibrant and
extremely healthy global ECM market. As we note in today's press
release, there probably has never been a better time for
buyers, with a wide range of strong products to chose from, especially in the mid market.
As an AIIM Advisory Trade Member, Documentum's ECM EvaluationGuide is a welcome educational approach and provides a rich source ofinformation for organizations now evaluating their information andcontent management goals. This concise and comprehensive guideidentifies many of the key requirements for an ECM solution and offersa framework for evaluating an organization's specific requirements.
We've critiqued SharePoint's rather awkward web publishing capabilities in different evaluation reports (on Web CMS tools and SharePoint itself). But we also see customers who seek to deploy SharePoint for their public websites, either because they want to experiment with the platform, or because the business side is being forced to use it (often under the misimpression that it will be "free"). The latter case is a bit ironic, because for years some enterprise web teams had to put up with bloated Web CMS tools from the likes of Documentum or IBM in a mistaken effort by IT to overreach and standardize on a single ECM supplier. Now we sometimes see IT throwing SharePoint over the wall to the business as almost a kind of abdication of any involvement.But using SharePoint for traditional web publishing is not a trivial undertaking. If you go that route, I'll commend you to a very useful white paper published by our partners at J
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