Enterprise Content Management Software Is The Next Evolution of Document Management Functionality, According to Recent SPEX Evaluations.Business/High Tech Editors RESTON Reston, uninc. city (1990 pop. 48,556), Fairfax co., N Va., a planned community established in 1961. A suburb of Washington, D.C., Reston is organized in a series of residential villages and commercial areas. , Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2002 Web Content Management Vendors Race to Enter the Growing Enterprise Content Management Market, While Users Acclimate to an Advancing Feature Set The enterprise content management (ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. ) application market represents a new functional area for users and vendors. ECM products provide functionality from traditional document management vendors and mature Web content management (WCM WCM Web Content Management WCM World Class Manufacturing WCM Warning Coordination Meteorologist WCM Wireless Connection Manager WCM Wavelength Channel Module WCM Württembergische Cattunmanufaktur (German cotton manufacturer) ) vendors in a single package. Given the recent financial difficulties in the WCM vendor space, many packages are being moved to the ECM space, a more stable market that has a higher potential for growth and differentiation. Unfortunately for users, the influx of vendors and disparate functionality has created a fractured Fractured is the Industrial Music band created by Canadian Nick Gorman in 2003. Located in Toronto Canada, his self produced release CD-R demo entitled Contami-Nation caught the attention of European label Dependent Records, who signed them. market. Products range from digital asset management offerings to WCM packages reconfigured for ECM. In addition, implementing an ECM application is more difficult than WCM, requiring more structure, diligence, and configuration on the user organization's part. "Although the need for WCM packages is still present, users are demanding a more expansive feature set that covers both document management and content distribution," said Derek Derek is a male name of English and Old German origin, possibly derived from the Old German Theodoric,[1] meaning power of the tribe or ruler of the people. Keefer, research analyst with SPEX SPEX Special Licensing Examination Medtalk An examination administered to ±1500 physicians/yr who seek relicensure and/or want to practice in a different state yrs after initial licensure . "ECM systems offer broader impact and have a potentially greater value to the organization than WCM packages, but many current ECM packages act more like a toolkit than a solution, requiring extensive implementation and customization." SPEX provides detailed evaluations of the major ECM players in its latest kit, as well as research on niche vendors, WCM vendors entering the space, and document management vendors evolving their businesses. The new research module details the current market landscape, enabling prospective users to accelerate their application selection decisions. The report highlights the differences between ECM and WCM packages and identifies an ideal feature set for ECM packages. The Enterprise Content Management module is part of the extensive SPEX research product family, known and respected for its long history of providing unbiased, hands-on evaluations and detailed side-by-side comparisons of enterprise software packages. This module currently provides evaluations of the following applications: -- Teams (Artesia) -- Documentum 4i (Documentum) -- Stellent CMS (Stellent) -- Panagon (FileNET) -- TeamSite (Interwoven) -- DOCSFusion (Hummingbird) -- VIP Enterprise (Gauss) The Enterprise Content Management research module focuses on vital decision points, such as product architecture, content capture, archiving functionality, search capabilities, workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. , content distribution support, collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. features, and categorizing content. It contains an industry overview, market analysis, technology primer prim·er n. A segment of DNA or RNA that is complementary to a given DNA sequence and that is needed to initiate replication by DNA polymerase. , selection guide, and SPEXmark(TM) ratings. SPEX evaluations can be customized to meet user-specific requirements using the SPEX WebCompass, an online model that contains detailed questions, analysis, and positioning graphs illustrating functional depth in critical areas. All components of the SPEX research module are available from the Clients Area of the SPEX Web site. As part of their annual subscription, SPEX clients also receive a series of updates and new product evaluations, along with inSPEXion, SPEX's monthly e-mail newsletter. SPEX is the leading Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the authority for enterprise and Web-based software technology evaluations. A division of META Group (Nasdaq:METG METG Military Effects Test Group ), SPEX provides comprehensive enterprise software evaluations via the Internet to help global companies quickly select critical business applications and IT solutions. Additional information about SPEX and samples of SPEX evaluations can be found at http://www.checkspex.com. NOTE TO EDITORS: Fact sheets that include SPEXmark ratings for all packages evaluated in the SPEX Enterprise Content Management research module are available from Peter Ward at peter.ward@metagroup.com or 203/973-6700. |
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