I was at the AIIM conference in Boston last month. The Expo hall there was Amazing, what with the number of ECM vendors out there ! They were players of all sizes and each of them tried to sound more competitive in what they offer to the other. If you are new to this ocean called ECM you are bound to get lost there. At some point I wondered if number of products in the market would surpass the Content Management demand.
Honestly it looks like there are tonnes of them out there.
Vendor evaluation like i mentioned in my previous blog entry is a Science by itself. It is very important to have the right choice of product.
Often I have seen companies choose ECM vendors without performing the 'Fitness test'. The choice is mostly driven by the product shop the company already is. For eg, if the company's ERP is on Oracle apps, Database is Oracle, the obvious choice they go for ECM is suites from Oracle too. While Oracle may be offering the best of breed product in ECM, without the product evaluation based on their specific requirements the choice may really not be right.
The key to ECM success is having the right tool in place. Evaluate properly and be right the first time !
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