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27-Jan-2004
Tags: Document Management (ECM), Web Content and Experience Management, Marketplace at Large, Web Site Management
Do mid-sized companies and departments want integrated content management and business processing? Longtime CMS vendor RedDot is betting that they do. RedDot has just released a new collaboration and business processing package to join its WCM and portal products. Despite being a homegrown effort, the overall "suite" could be a bit better integrated (e.g. the collaboration and WCM modules use different workflow engines). But on the whole, we find it a useful offering for those smaller firms seeking to combine their e-business and e-content efforts without incurring behemoth software license fees. Just remember that the real costs in these sorts of integrated projects -- regardless of size -- come in the form of consulting and training expenses, long after the software bill is paid...
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