This is the second of a two-part series that summarizes the main points in the ongoing debate about the impact of Microsoft SharePoint on the ECM community. Last week I reviewed several reasons why traditional Enterprise Content Management vendors will continue to thrive despite Microsoft&...
My two part series on the impact Microsoft SharePoint may have on the information managment marketplace was well recieved so I thought I might try another two-part article. I've been thinking a lot lately about the characteristics of successful records management and Enterprise Content...
It lays out my thoughts about the coming changes - driven by EFSS - in the ECM market. If you want to get your very own copy of Gartner's 2015 MQ for EFSS you can head over to this post on Box's blog and click away
Let's start by looking at the ECM market c. 2006. Most of the current ECM suites had just become so through a seemingly endless series of mergers & acquisitions - and most of the point solutions that make up the ECM stack (document management, records management, workflow, and so forth) had been on the acquired end of those deals
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Flexibility It has long been a trend in the ECM market place that no single product could do everything
They may not be completely new vendors to the ECM market place. Because contrary to what I’ve written before in Scanning is Simple there are real technical and business challenges to deploying successful ECM systems that are designed to capture and process paper based assets
This post is outlining that to be a player in the ECM market, and truly compete with vendors who have been defining ECM for the better part of three decades you’re going to take some shots, and they’ll fall hardest and most often when you are down
One topic I am interested exploring extensively is how the ECM market is responding to the “Cloud Computing”
The conclusion I draw is that while SharePoint is clearly having an impact on the ECM market (in addition to the fact that it is the fastest growing server product in Microsoft history, esteemed organizations like AIIM have started to dedicate entire communities to SharePoint ), at this point it appears that SharePoint's success has not come at the expense of incumbent vendors
Sure, we are constantly witnessing new entrants to the ECM market, but they are offering varying levels of the same capabilities
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