Content Management boom expected

The content management software market in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) is expected to grow at a five-year compounded annual growth rate of 16.6% to cross the $200 million mark by 2010, with India poised to post the highest growth rate in the region at 27.7%, a latest study by the IDC stated.

The content management software market in Asia-Pacific is currently pegged at $102 million, reports the Hindu Business Line.

"Much of the dust of the recent years` acquisitions has settled in 2004, although there were still a number of smaller acquisitions aimed generally at rounding out one`s product range. Despite the hype about enterprise content management in the past year, we see that demand for department level implementations has not decreased," said Sharon Tan, market analyst at IDC Pacific/Asia.

The initiatives such as e-government projects and digital archiving systems for government documents and compliance-related spending would continue to be some of the key market drivers in the region for content management.

There would also be increasing information needs and complexity on how to store, manage and access information efficiency.

Stellent supports the recently released Sun StorEdge 5310 Compliance Archiving System, which couples the Sun StorEdge 5310 NAS Appliance with Sun StorEdge Compliance Archiving Software to provide compliance-enabling features for authenticity, integrity, ready access and security, reports Content-Wire.

Technology users currently can leverage the Sun StorEdge 5310 NAS Appliance for file system storage.

The company plans to release an integration between Stellent Records Management application and the StorEdge Compliance Archiving Software that will enhance customers` records archiving and storage capabilities by enforcing strict document retention and utilising Sun`s write-once, read many capability.

M-Wise, a technology provider of mobile content solutions for operators, ASPs and content providers, has announced that its MOMA platform has been selected by MobilityZone for content management and delivery, an M-Wise statement reads.

MobilityZone, based in Israel, develops, produces and maintains one of the largest, up-to-date catalogues of licensed content from publishing houses and other producers, according to the statement.

Recently, MobilityZone secured a deal with a European mobile operator to provide its customers with Java games and will use M-Wise`s MOMA content management and delivery platform to host, manage and deliver games for its clients.