IBM unveils content management solution

IBM has released enterprise content management (ECM) solutions designed to help organisations achieve business agility and workplace effectiveness, states Marketwatch.

Unifying content, process and compliance capabilities in a new composite application framework, IBM hopes its ECM solutions will enable clients to solve increasingly complex business problems quickly.

The IBM offering is intended to help clients accelerate time-to-value, improve end-user accessibility and allow business professionals to optimise content-based processes.

According to research firm Gartner, interest in the business architecture space is growing dramatically, says Destination CRM.

Analyst Jeff Scott expanded upon the apparent movement in two recent reports, "Business Architecture's Time Has Come" and "The Up and Coming Business Architect". The latter was co-authored by Katie Smillie.

Scott notes that business architecture is a subset of, not the same thing as, enterprise architecture. He also says while there is a great deal of discussion, there is little consensus about what business architecture is, how it should be pursued, and what value it delivers.

Epicor, a provider of enterprise business software solutions, is offering support for Microsoft's cloud computing initiative, Azure Services Platform, reports Marketwatch.

Epicor recently released its next-generation enterprise resource planning solution, Epicor 9, which utilises Web 2.0 concepts to provide users with a collaborative enterprise business application experience.

Robert Wahbe, corporate VP of the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, said: "Taking advantage of our cloud computing initiative is the next logical step in the evolution of Epicor's service-oriented business applications.”