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ECM TrendWatch, by Alan Pelz-Sharpe
Alan Pelz-Sharpe is a principal and analyst at CMS Watch, covering enterprise content management technologies and practices. An 18-year veteran of the document technology industry, we was formerly a strategist at Wipro and VP North America for analyst firm Ovum. See More by Alan Pelz-Sharpe IBM Digests FileNet
Last week, IBM clarified its ECM intentions via a series of analyst briefings. In short the recently acquired FileNet P8 product will become Big Blue's main enterprise content management (ECM) offering, although legacy IBM products will remain supported for the foreseeable future. The latest version of P8 (version 4) is certainly a powerful solution for buyers of large-scale ECM systems and will benefit over time with the absorption of other IBM products, for example in enterprise search. The speed of the acquisition and integration of the ECM team (read all the old FileNet team) has been impressive, and the company says it now has 1,200 developers dedicated to ECM development. The ECM space will surely see more acquisitions, but the market has already bifurcated into business solutions providers and ECM platform players. The rational buyer might chose a platform first (Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, or EMC) and then chose specific applications, but with the platform vendors also dipping their toes into the solutions market with varying degrees of success. Meeting the strategic needs of the enterprise and the shorter-term needs of the business remains a difficult task in the current ECM market. Alan Pelz-Sharpe is a principal analyst at CMS Watch. Write him at aps@cmswatch.com  E-MAIL | SLASHDOT | DIGG This is a public forum. CMP Technology and its affiliates are not responsible for and do not control what is posted herein. CMP Technology makes no warranties or guarantees concerning any advice dispensed by its staff members or readers. Community standards in this comment area do not permit hate language, excessive profanity, or other patently offensive language. Please be aware that all information posted to this comment area becomes the property of CMP Media LLC and may be edited and republished in print or electronic format as outlined in CMP Technology's Terms of Service. Important Note: This comment area is NOT intended for commercial messages or solicitations of business.
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