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The solutions to help transportation companies address these business drivers are some of the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technologies, including document imaging, forms processing and workflow, as they enable them to capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver information and documents related to business and organizational processes. Submitted by Fujitsu Computer Products of America

An Encore Performance By Popular Demand! Wednesday, June 20, 2007 @ 1:00 PM ESTThe attendance and response at our previous webinar was so overwhelming, we just had to do it again!As newer technology paves the way for innovation, Microsoft® has raised the bar on classic ECM with Office 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007. Clearview is redefining the ECM world order with a new, fresh approach that is built upon, leveraging, and extending the new wave of Microsoft technology and innovation.For registration and additional information, download the Webinar brochure.

Autumn is conference season here in the US, and one of the events I am most looking forward to is KMWorld in San Jose, California, from 6-8th November. This year CMS Watch has organized The tuesday ECM conference track and we have some great sessions lined up, including market updates and discussions on building an ECM Strategy, along with some great speakers including our own Jarrod Gingras and our friend Anne Rockley. Added to this we are running a cool pre-conference workshop called when ECM meets Search on Monday. KMWorld is a special conference for me, as I have been attending since 1999 at the height of the dot-com boom in Silicon Valley, and the event never fails to attract many of the worlds finest thinkers and practitioners. I'm looking forward to the interactions and discussions that always occur and hope to see you there too.

ECM vendor Optika and WCM vendor Percussion are dating. The former is a publicly-traded imaging firm that added workflow and DM capabilities, then recently acquired a records management company. In a new partnership agreement with Percussion, the two companies can now cross-sell complementary capabilities to each others' clients. Could it also presage an acquisition? Privately-held Percussion has been courted by others, but has consistently held out for a better match. In the meantime, analysts are urging some of the dowdier ECM vendors to pick up web CMS capabilities. Optika's stock price has risen recently with the rest of the tech sector (after twice falling below NASDAQ's warning threshold of $1.00); if it continues to improve, Optika will be able to offer a better dowry...Read about the partnership at Percussion.com

Enterprise content management (ECM) has been among the fastest growing sectors intechnology for more than five years. The drivers continue to be on the rise in this complianceand regulatory environment, and return on investment (ROI) can easily be demonstrated. Whythen is it still so difficult to gain buyin and board approvals for ECM initiatives? According to theAIIM ECM Industry Watch in 2007, 29% of respondents indicated justifying the investment andgaining board approval was the biggest challenge; 28% said planning/managing theimplementation and change management were the biggest challenge. Let's explore why that isand the best way to address these issues. Submitted by Daybreak

Xenos develops software and provides services to liberate information trapped in proprietary systems and incompatible repositories. Xenos solutions enable our customers to repurpose this information, optimizing their information supply chains to achieve adaptability, a powerful competitive advantage. Xenos solutions increase efficiency, agility and re-engineering existing legacy applications. For organizations seeking to reduce costs, yet improve customer experience by implementing an ECM systems consolidation strategy, Xenos provides document migration consulting services and enterprise software applications that address requirements for document access, storage, integrity, indexing and implementation of transformation as an enterprise service within a service-oriented architecture.Xenos Group Inc 95 Mural Street, Suite 201 Richmond Hill ON L4B 3G2Toll free: 1.888.242.0692 Phone: 1.905.709.1020 Fax: 1.905.709.1023 Contact: marketing@xenos.com Web: www.xenos.com

Open Text offers a range of integrated Livelink ECM Solutions; each designed to address a particular business problem, technology gap, or industry challenge. The universal content sharing capabilities and a robust service-oriented architecture of the Livelink ECM Platform ensure that organizations can start by deploying one targeted solution and easily extend it with others over time until it evolves into an enterprise-wide ECM infrastructure.

This past week I had the pleasure of keynoting at the DocTrain event in Indianapolis (held at the truly magnificent Union Station venue), and also running a small session on "How to procure Content Technologies." I have been running these small sessions for a long while now and they tend to prove very popular, and though I have been doing this for years, there are always new tricks to be added to the bag.At the end of this particular session I chatted with the head of a leading US ECM integrator (who wishes for good reason to remain anonymous!) who said he liked the session but would have added two key points. Never buy at the end of a quarter

A simultaneous enterprise-wide deployment of ECM technology isn't a budgetary possibility for most businesses. However, by isolating the biggest paper pain point in your organization and addressing it with a departmental ECM system, you can quickly realize cost savings that will allow you to fund the expansion of the solution to multiple segments of your business. Used with permission from Integrated Solutions magazine

So HP finally made a move into the world of ECM by acquiring Tower Software of Australia. On the surface it's an unusual match for HP, as many had expected them to buy one of the top tier players such as Interwoven, Vignette or even Open Text, but on closer consideration it's a move that makes sense. Revealingly, HP does not call this an "ECM" deal and focuses on the e-discovery and compliance benefits from Tower's addition, so it's possible HP has further moves to make if it wants to get serious about offering broader ECM services à la IBM.Tower does have a long tradition in ECM (and has carved out a niche for themselves particularly in the Government sector globally), but primarily in Records Management-centric ECM. That's a focus that ties in nicely with HP's emphasis on archiving and storage-centric information management. Plus, Tower costs only a fraction of what other leading ECM firms would have set HP back