Last week we released a significant update to our comparative Web Content Management vendor reviews. There's a lot to conclude here about what's going on in the marketplace, but for now, I'll just summarize some of the new info from our revised evaluations

Capture + workflow = ECM.

It's a simple formula that works most of the time in enterprise environments. It works for the simple reason that most electronic documents that require organizational attention typically are captured and proceed down a structured workflow

As I prepare my plenary session presentation for the upcoming Henry Stewart conferences in New York and London, I'm doing a lot of research on how well digital & media asset management (DAM) tools adapt to mobile environments

This week, OpenText released version 8.1 of their WCM product. It features new media management capabilities, better support for mobile devices (result of their weComm acquisition) and some other enhancements. But more importantly, they

OpenText continues its long acquisition spree. After acquiring Metastorm last month, it has now acquired UK-based weComm, a vendor in the mobility space

Last week we updated our evaluations of seven DAM vendors

Today we published our analysis of the 2011 Document & Records Management marketplace, including our "Cross-Check" review of buyer risk

Just as Microsoft has its own very distinctive approach and definition for ECM, so too does Oracle. In fact as time goes on, Oracle's approach to ECM is becoming more individual and distinctive

Of late, many WCM as well as Portal vendors are touting their capabilities for more closely aligning content management and presentation management. Frankly, I wonder what took them so long. After all, what good is content if it cannot be delivered and consumed? In my opinion

"Transactional document management" is a term not used often enough in my opinion. For it is, as the phrase goes, the "meat and potatoes" of ECM

Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management 2010 is out, accompanied by vendors' public crowing and private tears, depending on their placement. You can get a copy of the MQ from Sitecore, who just obtained a ticket on the magic elevator

There's a lot of mysticism shrouding Autonomy's mega-search offering, "IDOL." Not in the least bit because every piece of software that is acquired by the vendor is either "plugged into," "powered by," or "integrated with" IDOL. Supposedly,

I'll agree with mega-vendor Autonomy on one key point: Search technology is really important. But is it so important that search functionality should dominate your choice in a content management system?

So have WCM vendors given up on core content production issues or do they think there's no more scope for innovation there? I can understand this trend to some extent because in many scenarios, content managers may want to manage the consumption experience and not just the production process.