ECM vendors adapt

Analyst firm CMS Watch reveals enterprise content management (ECM) vendors are innovating in mobile ECM, says V3.

The ECM Report 2009 evaluated 28 ECM vendors including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Alfresco, EMC and OpenText.

Report author Jarrod Gingras, says: "Mobile is just one piece of the larger movement. They are listening to their clients more. People's working environments are changing and the ECM vendors are being forced to adapt.”

Garner has published its Magic Quadrant for Web content management, revealing that Web software is the fastest growing sector of the enterprise content management market, valued at more $3.3 billion, reports ReadWriteEnterprise.

Oracle, Autonomy, Open Text and SDL are the biggest players in this space, according to Gartner, and have been placed in the leaders quadrant.

EMC, Microsoft and IBM were listed as challengers by Gartner, while Sitecore, FatWire Software, Ektron, Day Software and Clickability were selected as visionaries.

Lingxia 273, a Web-development company, has unveiled the ICE Content Management System, that allows companies to build their own Web sites, states TMCnet.

The system is an integrated Adobe Coldfusion and MySQL-based content management platform that allows users to build Web applications, manage Web sites and run digital branding campaigns.

Sahr Johnny, digital director of Lingxia, says Web applications need to enable social networking: “The days when you built static Web sites with content that changed infrequently and waited for potential customers to discover it via Google are long gone.”