High Stakes For EMC / Documentum

CMS Watch has some interesting reflections on EMC World and Documentum... apparently, EMC still has decent Enterprise Content Management products, but there's a real lack of enthusiasm in EMC about the whole thing:

Under the covers there remains some good technology and some good technologists, but there just doesn't seem to be the enthusiasm in the rest of EMC to really get behind it. One way of classifying these two groups is that they consist of the remnant Documentum products (built and acquired) over the years. We see many elements of the collaborative DM that Documentum majored on in the past in today's Knowledge Worker division, alongside the updated eRoom offering. In the Interactive Media group we see the old Bulldog DAM products given a fresh coat of paint. Both looked fine in the demo, but in talking to broader EMC sales staff, there was little interest or knowledge of these areas.

The CMS Watch article is also an interesting intro to Content Management and Archiving (CMA)... which seems to be the path that a lot of Enterprise Content Management vendors seem to be taking. Oracle's plan to achieve CMA is with a nice blend of Stellent and their Universal Online Archive... I'll go into more depth in my next book ;-)

As Billy noted with some statistics, archiving is a big deal for a complete ECM solution... It seems like some folks at Documentum "get it," but the jury is out whether the EMC folks will listen...

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