In the past year, product vendors across the ECM spectrum -- from portals to document management to web content management -- have picked up on the demand for collaborative tools. After all, what is an "enterprise" document, a corporate website, an Intranet dashboard, if not a collaborative venture? Witness Documentum buying eRoom, Stellent building its own tools, and now Interwoven collaborating with iManage (which IWOV is presenting as a DM solution). CMS vendors, as always, will have problems integrating disparate content repositories, and the tools are still a bit weak in terms of realtime collaboration. Also, this is an area where the platform vendors (especially Oracle and Microsoft) are staking a major claim. All this makes buyer choices more interesting...
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