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Kas Thomas
12-Feb-2008
Tags: Document Management (ECM), , Building Business Case, Government
According to the latest Report on Information Technology Spending for the Federal Government, the U.S. Treasury Department is requesting $28.2 million to spend on Enterprise Content Management systems in Fiscal Year 2009, up from $16.9M in FY2008 and $16.3M in FY2007. This is for the Treasury Department itself, not for the U.S. Government's other agencies. The total IT-related budget request covering all parts of the U.S. Government is $70.9 billion for 2009, up from $68.3 billion the year before.
The budget spreadsheet does not mention vendors by name but does note that ECM monies will be spent on COTS (commercial off-the-shelf software). That's fed-speak for "no bloated consultingware" (obviously a good thing), but also "no open source."
As ECM Suites Report readers know, "ECM" can encompass a variety of different technologies. Many federal agencies are today hard at work to install large-scale imaging systems, with large-scale price-tags, but also very large potential returns. With a seemingly fragile global financial marketplace, it's understandable that the Treasury Department is looking to get a better handle on the volumes of information it processes each day.
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