Research released this week from Gartner evaluates 22 ECM vendors that offer Document Management, and lists in the 'top right' corner EMC, IBM, Open text, Hummingbird, Filenet, Stellent, Vignette and Interwoven.
According to Gartner, "leaders have the highest combined measures of Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.
They're doing well and are prepared for the future with a clearly articulated vision for ECM. In a content management context, they have strong channel partners, a presence in multiple geographies, consistent financial performance, broad platform support, good customer support, and dominate in one or more technology or vertical markets. They have the ability to deliver a comprehensive ECM suite by owning all six core components and have proven enterprise scalability. "
Gartner says it bases its evaluation for the positioning on six main criteria
- Document management for check-in/checkout, version control, security and library services for business documents
- WCM for automating the webmaster bottleneck, managing dynamic content and content authoring
- Records management for legal or regulatory purposes, long-term archiving, and automation of retention and compliance policies
- Document capture and document imaging for capturing and managing paper documents
- Document-centric collaboration for document sharing and supporting project teams
- Workflow for supporting business processes and routing content, assigning work tasks and states, and creating audit trails
According to the report, the consolidation of content technologies and the rapid pace of vendor mergers and acquisitions have led to a major market evolution -- enterprise content management. Content technologies have coalesced into ECM product suites.
The analysts say that leaders are vendors who are "doing well and are prepared for the future with a clearly articulated vision. In a content management context, they have strong channel partners, a presence in multiple regions, consistent financial performance, broad platform support and good customer support, and they dominate in one or more technology or vertical markets. Leaders can deliver a comprehensive ECM suite by owning all six core components and have proven enterprise scalability."
http://www.emc.com/news/analyst/magic_quadrant/

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