Enterprise content management (ECM) products are ill-equipped to meet the security requirements of service-oriented architectures (SOA).
This is according to CMS Watch, an independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies.
In its most recent research, CMS Watch looked at 30 leading ECM vendors around the globe and found that all fell far short in one way or another of meeting the security demands of an enterprise SOA strategy.
"Separating out the SOA hype from the ECM reality remains difficult, as vendors have aggressively positioned their products as SOA-ready while most are not," said the report's lead analyst, Alan Pelz-Sharpe. "When vendors talk about SOA, they mostly mean they have SOAP-enabled their APIs," he added, "but that's not really the point.
"There is a long way to go before ECM is truly SOA-ready," added Pelz-Sharpe. "It's a situation that will change as major vendors such as IBM, Oracle and Microsoft become more involved in the delivery of ECM services, but for now it remains difficult."
CMS Watch's ECM Suites Report 2008 provides an overview of ECM product suites and best practices, including updated evaluations of 30 ECM suite vendors.
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