ECM Trends for 2007

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There is an "interesting" article in the latest AIIM E-DOC Magazine about ECM trends for 2007.

Following this article, the ECM market in 2007 will be like this:

  • Microsoft will be there with its Office Share- Point Server (MOSS) and enterprise-class vendors like IBM, EMC will match up with their own offering.
  • A real growth opportunity will be in the SMB market, mainly because local resellers will leverage Microsoft and bring ECM to a market that has been underserved by a fragmented industry.
  • Vendor consolidation will continue. It is a good news :-)
  • Now, we have to manage and store new kind of content like Wikis, blogs, VOIP data streams, and mobile phone SMS messages, ...
  • We will enjoy a better understanding of best practices. It is also a good news :-)
  • The future is not clear and the ECM open source market is not yet well defined.

So, it seems that there is nothing new for 2007; just a couple of new market evolution.

I'm not completely agreed with the last point because more and more companies are building the ECM open source market. Furthermore, I will not be astonished to see companies like IBM moving into the ECM open source world. They did that in the past for other markets.

Last point, I think our customers are more interested by a framework than by an out of the box solution. Those solutions are often expensive and difficult to learn. With a framework, our customers can assemble the components that are only required by their real ECM needs.

Is it not what the open source projects are trying to provide days after day? In my point of view, ECM will be SOA in 2007, but I know, it is not a scoop.