2007

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.