Content Management Market Consolidation
April 6, 2004
I have been researching some of the recent consolidation in the CMS market. The result is a new article in The Gilbane Report, “Content Management Industry Consolidation: What Does It Mean?”
To quote briefly from the introduction:
The content management community is abuzz with discussions about what content management is, and what the difference is between all of its various incarnations, including ECM, WCM, DM, KM DAM, etc. (). The seemingly endless supplier consolidation has done nothing to lessen interest in this question, and there will continue to be consolidation for the foreseeable future even though there will also continue to be new companies and new products and content technologies emerging. What does this ongoing consolidation mean to businesses planning or imple-menting content management strategies?
This month Bill takes a look at some of the longer term trends behind the recent consolidation. There are obvious reasons some vendors need to “bulk-up” to maintain business models and stay competitive, but there are also more subtle trends underlying much of the consolidation. To fully understand how supplier consolidation will impact your content management plans you need to take a look at these less obvious trends. It is certainly important to understand who owns who, and whether the products are integrated, but it is also critical to appreciate the cumulative effect of consolidation and the influence of larger computing industry trends to be fully prepared adjust your content manage-ment strategy as the industry evolves.
Posted by Bill Trippe at April 6, 2004 4:21 PM
