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Lars Bauer

Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management (Gartner, Sept. 23, 2008) - 0 views

  • This Magic Quadrant represents a snapshot of the ECM market at a particular point in time. Gartner advises readers not to compare the placement of vendors from last year to this year. The market is changing, and the criteria for selecting and ranking vendors continue to evolve. Our assessments take into account the vendors' current product offerings and overall strategies, as well as their future initiatives and product road maps. We also factor in how well vendors are driving market changes or at least adapting to changing market requirements.
  • see "Dataquest Insight: Enterprise Content Management Software Market Share Analysis, Worldwide, 2007"
  • Among the primary trends that IT architects and planners must consider as they develop content management strategies and determine their strategic partners are the following: ECM is increasingly becoming part of IT infrastructure. Compliance and information retention are getting higher profiles at CxO-level. Web 2.0 and mobile technologies, driven by user expectations, are influencing richer user interfaces and capabilities to empower business users. Integration and federation of content repositories will be critical in future. Application specificity — some vendors provide BCS, while others will have to focus on horizontal solutions and content-enabled vertical applications (CEVAs) in order to grow by delivering domain expertise. Alternative delivery models, such as software as a service (SaaS) and open source, are gaining increased interest.
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  • Market Shifts Toward Infrastructure Vendors
  • Content management is becoming part of enterprises' infrastructure and consequently is being delivered by large vendors of enterprise infrastructure such as IBM, Microsoft and Oracle.
  • IBM, Oracle and EMC are competing at the high end of the market, while Microsoft is commoditizing the market at the low end. Recently, HP entered the ECM market by acquiring Tower Software, a niche vendor long known for its integrated document and records management.
  • More than 54% of the market, as measured by total software revenue, is held by just three vendors — EMC, IBM and Open Text
  • Pure-play content management vendors and vertical-market specialists such as Interwoven, Xerox, Xythos Software and Vignette are fighting to compete. Bright spots for the pure-play vendors and vertical specialists are the mid-market and CEVAs
  • IBM and Oracle have the potential to drive the market forward by creating a powerful message based on broader enterprise information management (EIM). Since they own the key stack components, such as the database, the information access, business intelligence (BI), analytics and reporting tools (and often line-of-business applications), they can bring together structured data and unstructured content. On the other hand, choosing a suite from a stack vendor may involve tradeoffs as some functional components may not be equivalent to best-of-breed offerings.
  • Of all the infrastructure vendors, Microsoft has driven the most change in the ECM market over the past 18 months with Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
  • Adopting WSS or MOSS for mass deployment, and an ECM suite for high-end, content-centric processes and best-of-breed Web content, will remain a useful strategy for enterprises during the next three to five years. This coexistence strategy could reduce the costs and some of the risks of content management for an entire enterprise.
  • For many organizations, the need to increase workers' productivity and innovation is more important than ever. Critical goals include improving users' Web experience and connecting workers to relevant content and to each other.
  • see "Report Highlight for Dataquest Insight: E-Discovery Market Drives New Search, Content and Records Management Investments"
  • Specialists like Interwoven and Vignette are moving into Web-based CEVAs and interactive marketing and customer experience. They remain among the few choices enterprises have for high-end, enterprise-class, externally-facing Web content management (WCM) solutions. In the mid-market, Hyland Software, SunGard Data Systems and Saperion use their imaging and archiving heritages to address transactional content applications such as medical records, claims processing and accounts payable invoice processing.
  • Integration/Federation Grows in Importance as Organizations Look to Establish an Information-Centric Infrastructure
  • The ideal ECM architecture would enable one repository, or a few repositories with a common database — but this is not an ideal world. Dealing with multiple, siloed content repositories is a fact of life for many organizations. In Gartner's 2008 survey of nearly 400 respondents (see Note 1), 69% of enterprises indicated they had more than six repositories.
  • see "New Standard Will Make Content Repositories Interoperable"
  • Enterprises keep a vast amount of information locked up in documents, spreadsheets and other forms of unstructured data ("content"). To maximize the value of this information, enterprises need to integrate the various types and stores of content, integrate content with structured data, and integrate internal content with content and structured data outside the enterprise.
  • XML is becoming increasingly important for content creation, component management, output and integration with other applications. The term "mashup" has become synonymous with content couplings that were formerly difficult to achieve, even with traditional integration resources. Enterprise mashups that integrate content with business application data or with Web content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds or APIs remain rudimentary compared with the explosion of consumer mashups.
  • IBM intends to deliver ECM-focused widgets for creating mashups as part of the FileNet P8 platform.
  • User Empowerment vs. Governance
  • A Range of Needs Leads to Application Specificity and a Fragmented Focus From Vendors
  • Social software encourages informal collaborative activities that fall outside the traditional scope of transactional applications, formal workflows or engineered teams. The rapid growth of social network interactions and the desire for open innovation will require IT organizations to develop a new approach that balances the need for corporate security with the requirement to accommodate frequent customer and partner conversations. IT staff will still be expected to manage this content at the back end of the life cycle.
  • Wikis, blogs, podcasts and instant messaging have become staples in many enterprises, especially as marketing tools or as means of communicating with customers, prospects, employees and partners.
  • Enterprise and information architects should assess how able their ECM vendor(s) are when it comes to providing Web 2.0 features or integrating with third-party solutions for collaboration and communication to avoid creating more content silos. Usability remains a critical characteristic of perceived success or failure for ECM.
  • Interwoven, Open Text and EMC are among the ECM vendors focusing development efforts on increased support for mobile clients, such as BlackBerrys and the iPhone, and for offline capabilities.
  • Today, however, all this content creation and sharing typically happens outside any formal content management strategy. Organizations should take advantage of evolving, richer user interfaces and tools for content creation, consumption and multichannel output.
  • Alternative Delivery Models
  • The capital outlay required for ECM, and the internal resources needed to implement and maintain ECM suites, can be daunting. It is not unusual for an organization to spend $1 million or more on software and services for a large deal. In a 2008 survey (see Note 1), 22% of the respondents indicated they were spending over $1 million on content management software purchases in 2008, while 14% were spending between $500,000 and $1 million. In addition, it can take at least six to 18 months to deploy an ECM application.
  • Gartner clients are increasingly asking about SaaS, shared services and open source as alternative delivery approaches to implementing on-premises, commercial software. Yet the penetration of open-source and SaaS solutions today represents less than 5% of the overall ECM software market (based on total software revenue)
  • Market Definition/Description
  • Gartner defines today's ECM suites as encompassing the following core components: Document management for check-in/check-out, version control, security and library services for business documents. Document imaging for capturing, transforming and managing images of paper documents. Records management for long-term archiving, automation of retention and compliance policies, and ensuring legal, regulatory and industry compliance. Workflow for supporting business processes, routing content, assigning work tasks and states, and creating audit trails. Web content management for controlling the content of a Web site through the use of specific management tools based on a core repository. It includes content creation functions, such as templating, workflow and change management, and content deployment functions that deliver prepackaged or on-demand content to Web servers. Document-centric collaboration for document sharing and supporting project teams.
  • Though not explicitly identified as a core component, information access, or search, technology has always been a critical component of an ECM suite, and it will play an even bigger role in helping companies sift through structured and unstructured information. All ECM products ship with a search engine embedded as a core component, so that users can create a full-text index and search the content stored in repositories. Most ECM vendors re-license the search engine from another provider, typically Autonomy-Verity or Fast (see "Q&A: ECM and Information Access Technologies Grow Ever-More Entwined").
  • Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
  • Evaluation Criteria
  • Vendor Strengths and Cautions
  • Interwoven
  • Interwoven has increasingly focused its strategy on being a best-of-breed content management vendor, with a strong message around Web-based and vertical-specific solutions.
  • Although Interwoven has all the core ECM capabilities and related components such as DAM, it delivers and emphasizes these as stand-alone offerings for different business scenarios. The suite is only loosely coupled, and cross-selling opportunities are limited.
  • Gartner believes that Interwoven's future lies in high-end WCM, analytics and marketing solutions. It can continue to carve out a successful position with its consistent marketing messages and Web-based solutions, but this won't be easy given the increasing competitive pressures and changing market dynamics. Interwoven must continue to penetrate the accounting, legal and professional services markets and expand into adjacent markets such as the government sector — otherwise, like others, it faces a stagnant future in the traditional document and records management arena.
  • Microsoft
  • More so than any other vendor, Microsoft has driven ECM market transformation with SharePoint 2007. Microsoft has brought BCS to the masses by bringing the cost per seat down and tying simple content management to the familiar desktop tools that users use every day.
  • With MOSS 2007, Microsoft provides an integrated product suite that provides at least basic capabilities in the six core ECM functional components, along with portal and search capabilities. The fact that it is built on the Microsoft stack will appeal to a broad range of organizations for whom Microsoft is a strategic partner.
  • While MOSS 2007 has attracted interest and gained some traction as a records management tool, a WCM solution and a platform for building CEVAs, it still has to mature in these areas.
  • Feedback regarding large, decentralized deployments of MOSS 2007 indicates a need for improvements in scalability and in management and replication functionality. Microsoft has begun providing tools and published guidance to address these challenges.
  • Microsoft must continue to ramp up support, training and partner certification as there is a clear "skills gap" between the demand SharePoint has created and the supply of well-trained implementation personnel.
  • Objective
  • Objective, an Australia-based vendor, has a strong vertical-market focus on the public sector in Asia/Pacific and Europe
  • The Objective suite, which has evolved through development rather than acquisition, is well-integrated and addresses the core ECM functional components.
  • Historically, Objective has delivered most professional services itself, rather than through partners. Recently, it has begun to establish relationships with major system integrators, but it needs to expand further and extend this partner channel.
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    The enterprise content management market is marked by consolidation, a shift toward infrastructure vendors and a focus on solutions. This Magic Quadrant assesses ECM vendors and their software suites.
Lars Bauer

Law Firm Web Strategy : Why Law Firm SEO is Important - 0 views

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    Sept 10, 2007
Lars Bauer

Research Summary: Enterprise Content Management, from State of California - White Paper... - 0 views

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    Jan. 2007, PDF, 15 pages - Overview: This paper was prepared in response to a requests for information on enterprise document management systems which are now most generally marketed and packaged as a component of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution. The Enterprise Content Management Association (AIIM) has defined ECM as "The technologies, tools, and methods used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver information, content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM tools and strategies allow the management of an organization's unstructured information, wherever that information exists." The document management component of ECM generally focuses on managing unstructured content so that it is more easily managed and accessible to enterprise resource users.
Lars Bauer

TechnoLawyer Blog: Decisiv Email: Read Our Exclusive Report - 0 views

  • Decisiv Email employs advanced categorization and conceptual search technology to automatically tag, organize, and file email messages and associated attachments with virtually no user involvement.
  • Additionally, you can use Decisiv Email as an email archiving tool. Recommind claims that using Decisiv Email to store business records delivers up to 500% in storage savings over traditional email archiving systems while substantially reducing litigation risk and eDiscovery costs.
  • Decisiv Email sells for $300 per user for perpetual licenses.
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    NewsWire, Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Lars Bauer

Legal Technology - Implementing Large-Scale Extranets - 0 views

  • In this article I'll discuss how Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (SharePoint) has been used at Fenwick & West to meet the challenge of making extranets available for each and every matter opened. I'll also cover the key issues that must be addressed in order to scale to thousands of extranets and terabytes of data. At the conclusion of this article you'll have a better idea of what can be accomplished with SharePoint at your firm, as well as a road map to get you started.
  • The key factors that I will discuss are:Automated provisioningAutomated administrationGranular backupTraining-the-trainersIterative refinement
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    Nov. 19, 2007, by Mark Gerow, Fenwick & West
Lars Bauer

What is enterprise2.0? Five pillars for efficient knowledge sharing : crisscrossed blog - 0 views

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    June 10, 2007 -- The five pillars identified by Christian Kreutz are: tagging, social bookmarking, blogging, wikis and feeds/RSS
Lars Bauer

Legal Technology - Digital Dialogue Revs Up at Top Firms - 0 views

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    LawFirmInc, Sep 10, 2007, via law.com - 12th AmLaw Tech survey shows Am Law 200 firms are connecting with more use of online collaboration and wireless tools
Lars Bauer

Look beyond SharePoint when considering collaboration :: SearchVoIP.com.au - 0 views

  • When it comes to departmental file sharing or collaborative workspaces, Microsoft's SharePoint has legions of fans in midsized companies. But for those not interested in paying for SharePoint (the basic version is free), or who find some features immature in the latest version, there are SharePoint alternatives.
  • The move to MOSS 2007 seems to be natural once users install Office 2007.
  • Midmarket companies accounted for 35% of the respondents, and among this group, half said price was not an inhibitor for MOSS deployments. Although nearly half -- 46% -- said the price was higher than they expected.
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  • Microsoft estimates MOSS pricing at $US4,424 for a server license and $US94 per client access license (in the U.S.).
  • MOSS' capabilities range from basic collaboration to portal creation and business intelligence content management. Yet MOSS' breadth is both too much and not enough for some midmarket users.
  • While the portal capabilities in MOSS are mature, for example, some companies are holding off on what they perceive as less-developed features in the suite, such as social networking, enterprise search and Web content management capabilities. These companies are waiting until Microsoft releases the next version, Koplowitz said.
  • Another potential drawback is a dearth in skill sets, as well as a lack of SharePoint documentation coming from Microsoft
  • On the surface, SharePoint is easy to get off the ground, but he said he's finding that people quickly get in over their heads.
  • Although SharePoint appears to be on a lot of CIOs' agendas, midmarket businesses have plenty of other choices.
  • There's integration with enterprise content management systems.
  • There are also third-party add-ons
  • Open Text Corp., with its ECM suite, is another company that both competes and integrates with SharePoint.
  • Competing products and vendors in the Web 2.0 space include Jive Software's Clearspace business social community software, which has customers in the midsized market, and Atlassian Software Systems Pty Ltd. and Socialtext Inc. These started out as wikis but are broadening their community-based collaborative offerings.
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    by Christina Torode, Dec 22, 2008
Lars Bauer

Microsoft Office 14 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Microsoft Office 14 ("Office 14" for short) is the working title for the next version of the Microsoft Office System productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. It entered development during 2006 while Microsoft was finishing work on Microsoft Office 12, which was released as the 2007 Microsoft Office System. The major version number 13 has been skipped, presumably due to aversion to the number 13. It was previously thought that Office 14 would ship in the first half of 2009,[1] but more recent information suggests a late 2009/early 2010 release timeframe.
Lars Bauer

Web 2.0 for the Enterprise: Setting the Foundation for Success, from Oracle - White Pap... - 0 views

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    Oracle, Aug. 2007, PDF, 11 pages - Overview: Bringing Web 2.0 to the enterprise is more than just the latest technology; it's about changing the traditional business model and tapping into the creativity, intellect, and passion of every single employee. It is much more important for companies to understand the changing trends in business than to just implement the next "hot" technology product. Oracle WebCenter enables companies to foster the development of new ideas, tap into critical employee thinking and knowledge, and enable the synergy of teams to revolutionize their existing business models and achieve lasting success.
Lars Bauer

KWizCom Knowledge Worker Components - 0 views

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    Sharepoint Web Parts : Sharepoint Wiki : Sharepoint 2007 Wiki : Calendar Web Part : Sharepoint Calendar : Survey web part : SharePoint aggregator: Roll-up web part: SharePoint Offline : Dynamics CRM add-ons
Lars Bauer

Swiss firm selects Aderant Expert legal software for scalability and simplicity - Legal... - 0 views

  • lecocqassociate has selected Aderant Expert as their new practice management system, making them Aderant’s first Swiss client.
  • Based in Geneva, Switzerland, lecocqassociate specializes in regulatory banking, collective investments, corporate finance, private equity and more. The boutique firm has grown tremendously since its inception in 2007 to approximately 30 attorneys, with additional offices in Malta, Dubai and another opening soon in New York
  • In addition to the core Aderant Expert solution, lecocqassociate will be implementing Expert On the Go for mobile use and Found Time to help recover lost billable hours
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    "Aderant, the world's largest independent legal software company, announced today that lecocqassociate has selected Aderant Expert as their new practice management system, making them Aderant's first Swiss client."
Lars Bauer

It Ain't Over - Computer Business Review - 0 views

  • For a time, Autonomy’s closest search rival was Verity, until Autonomy bought the company for $500m in November 2005. After that, it was the Norwegian company, Fast Search and Transfer (FAST) that seemed to be the nearest rival.
  • in January this year FAST was bought by Microsoft for $1.2bn, though it is being operated as a subsidiary, of which Lervik is still CEO.
  • But even at its peak, FAST was not making anything like Autonomy’s revenue. In the last quarter as an independent entity before it was acquired – the third quarter of 2007 – FAST announced sales of $35.6m, up just 4%. In the same quarter of that year, Autonomy announced its sales rose 49% to $89.6m.
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  • Autonomy’s growth has continued since then: in its third quarter of this year, announced in September, it posted sales of $127.1m, up 42%.
  • The great irony in all of this is that Lynch does not want Autonomy to be pigeon-holed as an enterprise search company.
  • IDC’s Feldman though says that, “At this point, it is clear that Autonomy should no longer be considered purely a search vendor. It builds search-based applications to answer market demands for better information-centric software.”
  • What does that mean? Autonomy’s website explains: “Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including pan-enterprise search, proactive information risk management, information governance, e-discovery, consolidated archiving, call centre solutions, rich media management, security applications, customer relationship management (CRM), knowledge management (KM) and BPM [business process management].”
  • Lynch says Autonomy now has in the region of 500 OEM customers, writing applications that embed Autonomy’s Meaning-based Computing, or MBC. Their own software products rely on Autonomy’s pattern matching algorithms to extract ‘meaning’ from unstructured information.
  • One of the differentiators over its smaller rivals in the space – including Endeca, IBM (smaller in terms of search, at least), Google Enterprise, Simplexo, Sinequa, Recommind and many more – is the list of supported file types that can be handled by Autonomy’s IDOL platform. “By supporting more than 1,000 different data formats, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, located across 400 different content repositories, Autonomy can search all categories of information repositories in an organization,” the company says.
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    CBR online, 23 Dec. 2008 -- "British-born Autonomy won the enterprise search wars, and in doing so became an international success story. In an exclusive interview, CEO Mike Lynch talks to Jason Stamper about the even greater challenge his firm hopes to conquer."
Lars Bauer

Slaw: Effective Litigation Knowledge Management - 0 views

  • Increasingly, the trend is towards smarter enterprise search (Recommind, Autonomy, and Interwoven Universal Search, and SharePoint 2007 search, to name a few of the smarter search engines some law firms are using).
Lars Bauer

XMLAW - SharePoint for Law Firms: Enterprise Portal System - 0 views

  • The Enterprise Portal System is a complete solution of enterprise integration, search, and user interface components designed to increase efficiency, timeliness, and quality throughout your firm.
  • The Enterprise Portal System extends SharePoint 2003 and 2007 platforms to fit the way your law firm works and the way you use information to drive client service and better manage your practices. You can combine separate systems into a consistent user interface within SharePoint and present information in legal-specific contexts, such as clients, matters, or practice areas.
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