According to InfoTrends’ research, more than half of large organizations have already implemented or are developing an ECM strategy. Of those, 65% of large companies and 80% of medium-sized organizations are looking to a single ECM platform provider to fulfill their ECM strategy. Given the scope and scale of enterprise content management, there are few vendor choices that provide the full spectrum of content management solutions, the depth of the technology stack, and the surrounding service expertise to facilitate customer adoption. IBM, particularly with its 2006 acquisition of FileNet, is clearly one such vendor.
Four key forces are driving organizations to adopt a strategic, enterprise-level approach to planning and deploying content systems. These forces include:
- the compounding growth of content generated by organizations
- the need to integrate that content within business processes
- the need to support increasing sophistication for business user content access and interaction
- and the need to maintain governance and control over content to ensure regulatory compliance and preparedness for legal discovery.
