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Interwoven Delivers A Strong Performer ECM Suite

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

by Kyle McNabb, November 9, 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...

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EMC Leads ECM Suites With A Focus On Breadth And Depth

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

by Kyle McNabb, November 9, 2007

...EMC's Documentum product line outshines most enterprise content management (ECM) suite competitors in its breadth and depth of technology. EMC's very...

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Microsoft Ranks Among The Strong Performers In ECM Suites

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

by Kyle McNabb, November 9, 2007

...Microsoft dove into the enterprise content management (ECM) pool headfirst with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. And the product shows...

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Alfresco Offers An Open Source ECM Suite Contender

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

by Kyle McNabb, November 9, 2007

...Alfresco Software immediately differentiates itself from its ECM suite peers by offering an open source alternative. Alfresco offers a unique...

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IBM Leads ECM Suites With The Market's Strongest Platform

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

by Kyle McNabb, November 9, 2007

...IBM distances itself from other enterprise content management (ECM) suite vendors by offering the richest core set of ECM capabilities: imaging...

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Hyland Software Is An ECM Suite Strong Performer

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

by Kyle McNabb, November 9, 2007

...Hyland Software's OnBase product provides an enterprise content management (ECM) suite with imaging and archiving strengths. Its burgeoning business process management (BPM...

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Open Text Livelink ECM — RM: A Leader In RM, With Federation And Retention Management

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q1 2007

by Barry Murphy, March 14, 2007

...Open Text Livelink ECM — Records Management is a leader in the records management (RM) market because...

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Open Text Livelink ECM — eDOCS RM Is A Strong Performer In RM, With Flexible UI Options

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q1 2007

by Barry Murphy, March 14, 2007

...Open Text Livelink ECM — eDOCS RM is a strong performer in the records management (RM) market...

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Open Text Leads ECM Suite Pure Plays

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

by Kyle McNabb, November 9, 2007

...Open Text has assembled its enterprise content management (ECM) suite through its own organic development and multiple acquisitions. The vendor boasts...

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Vignette Is An ECM Suite Strong Performer

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

by Kyle McNabb, November 9, 2007

...Vignette no longer markets itself primarily as an enterprise content management (ECM) suite vendor. Instead, Vignette has taken pragmatic steps toward using its imaging...

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SAP Does Just Enough To Be An ECM Suite Contender

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007

by Kyle McNabb, November 9, 2007

...a middleware and infrastructure provider. But SAP lacks many enterprise content management (ECM) capabilities needed to be taken seriously as an ECM suites vendor. Still...

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Oracle Has Established ECM Suite Leadership

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

by Kyle McNabb, November 9, 2007

...Oracle made a big move acquiring enterprise content management (ECM) suite vendor Stellent in 2007. The vendor has quickly taken a proven...

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Xerox Makes Its ECM Suite Entry As A Real Contender

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

by Kyle McNabb, November 9, 2007

...Xerox DocuShare offers a low-cost alternative to EMC, IBM, and other ECM suite vendors and focuses on document management, imaging, and records management. But...

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How To Build A High-Octane Taxonomy For ECM And Enterprise Search Systems

by Leslie Owens, November 17, 2008

...ticket information management software such as search, portal, and enterprise content management (ECM) systems, in an effort to eliminate information silos and increase content reuse...

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For Enterprise Collaboration, Focus On Information Workplace Platforms, Not ECM Specialists

by Erica Driver, June 26, 2007

...platform that combines core IW building blocks including collaboration, enterprise content management (ECM), portal, office productivity services, management dashboards, and contextual learning. Their actions have...

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Business Context: A Better Way To Define An ECM Strategy

by Kyle McNabb, Craig Le Clair, December 27, 2007

...Defining and executing an enterprise content management (ECM) strategy can be frustrating. Tangible needs such as IT cost reduction, system...

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Use ECM To Fire Up Business Processes

An Assessment Of Imaging Support Of Common Business Processes

by Craig Le Clair, Sheri McLeish, October 20, 2008

...the business processes they need to support. Today I&KM pros demand ECM solutions that they can easily adapt to core business processes. Forrester reviewed...

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ECM Systems Integrators: Fit Matters Most

Strategy, Platform Breadth, And Industry Experience Provide Value

by Craig Le Clair, Sheri McLeish, November 14, 2008

...Every dollar spent on enterprise content management (ECM) software usually requires another dollar to make it work. Services such as...

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Hewlett-Packard Enters The ECM Race

How Small But Smart Acquisitions Affect Your ECM Strategies

by Kyle McNabb, Craig Le Clair, April 11, 2008

...to rest any doubt that the company is targeting enterprise content management (ECM) for enterprises. While it's not the splashy acquisition of a single...

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ECM Growth Outpaces The Overall Software Market

Compliance And Process Efficiency Help Drive Spending To $3.9 Billion By 2008

by Kyle McNabb, July 18, 2005

...The market for enterprise content management (ECM) license software will exceed $3.9 billion in 2008, outpacing the overall...

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EMC: ECM Platform Supports Transactional- And Business-Content-Centric Application Initiatives

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q1 2006

by Kyle McNabb, March 29, 2006

...business unit of EMC, continues to execute on its enterprise content management (ECM) platform strategy while also establishing itself as a Strong Performer for transactional...

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Message Archiving Becomes Part Of ECM And Storage

by Erica Driver, Robert Markham, September 29, 2004

The message archiving market is going through a period of rapid growth that will last for the next two years. But growth will slow as message archiving functionality is absorbed into records management applications and revenues are diverted to the enterprise . . .

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Live From AIIM 2004: Business Efficiency Drives The ECM Market

by Robert Markham, Connie Moore, March 26, 2004

...Forrester observed several key trends in the enterprise content management (ECM) market at the recent AIIM 2004 exposition and conference. The overarching one...

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ECM Vendors Are Missing The Boat

Product Information Management Presents New Opportunity

by Erica Driver, Connie Moore, May 21, 2004

...content repositories become commoditized during the next three years, enterprise content management (ECM) vendors need to get into solutions and vertical markets. The product information...

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LCMS and ECM Functionality Will Remain Distinct in the Near Term

by Robert Markham, Claire Schooley, December 18, 2003

...with an awareness that these markets have already started to converge through ECM vendors. Catalyst A client inquiry Question Is there any overlap between the...