Comments on: The ECM Market in the PM (Post-MOSS) Era http://www.c3associates.com/2007/04/the-ecm-market-in-the-pm-post-moss-era/ Content + Context = Collaboration Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:20:20 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Travis Sanford http://www.c3associates.com/2007/04/the-ecm-market-in-the-pm-post-moss-era/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Travis Sanford Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:32:39 +0000 http://www.c3associates.com/2007/05/27/the-ecm-market-in-the-pm-post-moss-era/#comment-53 I am leading a small company with big net revenue and very complicated federal contracts through an ECM project. We looked at all of the vendors you mentioned none could offer us exactly what we were looking for without so much special adaptations that we realized we were essentially desinging our own ECM system and what we needed were the tools to build it. I think MOSS 07 and Office 07 (though I loath the very thought of moving our users to Office 07) give us those tools. I have to agree with the above when you look at a future where Sharepoint is managing web content, Exchange is managing incoming content and users can fill out a Document Information Panel and have 90% chance of finding their document again, why it certainly seems that microsoft will own this space in a very short time. All they need to do is produce a slightly more organized out of the box deployment. I am leading a small company with big net revenue and very complicated federal contracts through an ECM project. We looked at all of the vendors you mentioned none could offer us exactly what we were looking for without so much special adaptations that we realized we were essentially desinging our own ECM system and what we needed were the tools to build it. I think MOSS 07 and Office 07 (though I loath the very thought of moving our users to Office 07) give us those tools. I have to agree with the above when you look at a future where Sharepoint is managing web content, Exchange is managing incoming content and users can fill out a Document Information Panel and have 90% chance of finding their document again, why it certainly seems that microsoft will own this space in a very short time. All they need to do is produce a slightly more organized out of the box deployment.

]]> By: Rick Cowburn http://www.c3associates.com/2007/04/the-ecm-market-in-the-pm-post-moss-era/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Rick Cowburn Fri, 04 May 2007 21:49:35 +0000 http://www.c3associates.com/2007/05/27/the-ecm-market-in-the-pm-post-moss-era/#comment-14 Records management is plumbing. We no longer carry water from the local well, or dump our sewage into the street--plumbing is completely integrated into modern life. We don't notice it because it's built into every building we live in. Similarly, records management will be completely integrated into modern business systems, and we won't notice it because it's built into every process we live in. MOSS is headed towards that integrated future--as ECM vendors, sadly, are not. "Thanks for the R&D, boys, but it's time to expand our monopoly power base." Records management is plumbing. We no longer carry water from the local well, or dump our sewage into the street–plumbing is completely integrated into modern life. We don’t notice it because it’s built into every building we live in.

Similarly, records management will be completely integrated into modern business systems, and we won’t notice it because it’s built into every process we live in.

MOSS is headed towards that integrated future–as ECM vendors, sadly, are not. “Thanks for the R&D, boys, but it’s time to expand our monopoly power base.”

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