Forrester study predicts big growth in information management

Michael LoPresti — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:36:07 -0400

Forrester research conducted a survey of information management (IM) software and service providers in order to assess the size of the IM market. The results of the survey suggest that the market is growing at a significant rate. Forrester predicts that the global information services market will grow from its current value of $7.9 billion to $10.9 billion in 2012. Business intelligence and business performance solutions will account for the lion's share of this uptick, the survey suggests, and the information strategy segment will see the most rapid growth. Forrester also posits that 2009 could be the year when enterprise content management finally lives up to its high expectations as portals continue to gain traction as ad hoc ECM solutions.

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Content Group aims to create ECM standards

Michael LoPresti — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:25:23 -0400

Designing an effective plan for enterprise content management (ECM) is no easy task. The Content Group, a UK-based ECM consultancy, is trying to promote the notion that the first step in this direction is to define exactly what a good ECM strategy should be. The company is working with BSI British Standards to develop a best practice standard for ECM, which would establish a frame of reference for the entire ECM market. Providing a common understanding of ECM has been a priority--or at least an ideal--of the information management industry since the term came into use at the beginning of the decade. The Content Group's Publicly Available Specification (PAS) will address the "nine critical elements" of ECM assessment: create, capture, management, process, collaboration, distribution, publishing, reporting and storage. When completed, the PAS would serve as a roadmap to help organizations understand what ECM is, what it can do, and how to measure its quality.

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Forrester study predicts big growth in information management

Content Group aims to create ECM standards