Worldwide market for content management systems to be worth US$7.2 billion by 2006
Smaller players are leading innovation in the sector, but not all will survive
10 December 2001
Content is proliferating at such a rate that solutions to manage this information are becoming an essential part of any business infrastructure.
Although CMS solutions have typically been associated with the management of Web sites, it is vital to take a much wider view of content.
Butler Group forecasts that the worldwide market for content management systems will be worth US$7.2 billion by 2006, led by Broadvision, Divine, Documentum, FileNET, IBM, Interwoven, Stellent, and Vignette, but many of the smallest players are not going to survive, according to the analysts.
“The proliferation of small CMS producers is indeed a symptom of an immature market, where consolidation is to be expected, as some analysts suggest” comments Paola Di Maio, independent analyst specialist in content technologies “But innovation in the sector has been led by smaller emerging CMS players that over the past year have
challenged the leadership of ‘incumbent’ players. Only last year, when I researched the market for CMS on behalf of clients who were intending to buy, there were only a handful of producers to chose from, and none of their products were suitable to small
to medium size implementations. Today, the coolest and most flexible content management systems are indeed provided by emerging companies, and their input is contributing to change the face of the CMS landscape, although it is true that not all of them may survive in the long term” Di Maio explains.
According to the analysts, five aspects are fundamental to a content management solution:
Additional features such as document processing, personalisation, catalogue management, syndication, and content networking will often be added.
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