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Lessons Learned From Early SharePoint Adopters
Many organizations evaluate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to improve how employees collaboratively author, manage, and share documents drives. Yet varying work styles, the wide range of...
Forrester's Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 research helps information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals get to grips with the sometimes viral adoption of Microsoft's...
How Small But Smart Acquisitions Affect Your ECM Strategies
With its acquisition of Exstream Software and announced acquisition of TOWER Software, Hewlett-Packard (HP) has finally put to rest any doubt that the company is targeting enterprise content...
This data chart uses data from the March 2008 North American And Western European Enterprise Microsoft Office 2007 Adoption Online Survey to examine trends in adoption of Microsoft Office 2007...
When Forrester introduced persuasive content in 2005, we described it, along with transactional and business content, as a different way for information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals...
Defining and executing an enterprise content management (ECM) strategy can be frustrating. Tangible needs such as IT cost reduction, system and server consolidation, and keeping the enterprise out of...
These data charts use data from Forrester's Business Data Services 2007 Enterprise Software Survey to examine and compare trends of Enterprise Content Management software investments.
EMC, IBM, And Oracle Lead, With Open Text Leading Pure Plays
Forrester evaluated 11 enterprise content management (ECM) suite vendors across approximately 60 criteria and found that IBM, EMC, and Oracle lead thanks to suite breadth and a focus on enterprise...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Oracle made a big move acquiring enterprise content management (ECM) suite vendor Stellent in 2007. The vendor has quickly taken a proven ECM suite and added it to the substantial Fusion Middleware...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Interwoven doesn't aggressively market itself as an enterprise content management (ECM) suite provider. Instead, Interwoven focuses its attention on using its strong document management, records...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
IBM distances itself from other enterprise content management (ECM) suite vendors by offering the richest core set of ECM capabilities: imaging, document management, content archiving, records...
Vignette no longer markets itself primarily as an enterprise content management (ECM) suite vendor. Instead, Vignette has taken pragmatic steps toward using its imaging and Web content management...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
EMC's Documentum product line outshines most enterprise content management (ECM) suite competitors in its breadth and depth of technology. EMC's very strong document management, document imaging,...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Hyland Software's OnBase product provides an enterprise content management (ECM) suite with imaging and archiving strengths. Its burgeoning business process management (BPM) support, document output...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Alfresco Software immediately differentiates itself from its ECM suite peers by offering an open source alternative. Alfresco offers a unique approach to ECM that's not solely based on its open...
Xerox DocuShare established itself as a good document management and document imaging product, but it lacked visibility both within Xerox and in the market. Xerox recently took action to improve both...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007
Numerous large, global enterprises have made SAP their transactional system backbone. And SAP has been able to take advantage of its position with customers to become more of a middleware and...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Open Text has assembled its enterprise content management (ECM) suite through its own organic development and multiple acquisitions. The vendor boasts being the largest independent ECM suite vendor...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007
Microsoft dove into the enterprise content management (ECM) pool headfirst with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. And the product shows promise, thanks to strong Microsoft Office integration,...
Defining a strategy for enterprise content management (ECM) challenges most enterprises. Most information and knowledge managers focus their attention on very tangible areas such as IT consolidation,...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007
Percussion Software's Rhythmyx 6.1 provides a solution for enterprise-class organizations looking to address tactical needs versus a platform for Web content management (WCM). While the product...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007
EMC Documentum Web Publisher features comprehensive content life-cycle management functionality, including full retention policy management. The product also offers solid metadata and taxonomy...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007
RedDot Solutions CMS 7.5 and LiveServer 3.5 provide easy-to-use Web content management (WCM) and delivery capabilities targeted at enterprise-class organizations. The product's ease-of-use will...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007
IBM Workplace Web Content Management (IBM WCM) 6.0 provides strong life-cycle management with full-featured retention management support. But the product is weak in some key features like multisite...
SDL Tridion Leads While Microsoft And IBM Play Catchup
Forrester evaluated 11 leading Web content management (WCM) vendors across 190 external site content management and delivery criteria and found that European vendor SDL Tridion has established clear...