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There are many content management products on the market that could be used in our projects. Those products propose generic solutions for content life cycle management, versioning, workflow and publication but unfortunately they have 3 important disadvantages.

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.