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Monthly Questions Archives
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Whitney Tidmarsh
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Charles Brett
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Don McMahan
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SharePoint is finally here. How does that impact the ECM landscape?
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ABBYY Software:
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| SharePoint will play a major role in the small to medium business space, its traditional area strength and where it is going to be targeted. Whoever provides ECM solutions targeted at the
SMB market needs to look into how to differentiate themselves from Microsoft. That will probably most likely push those players
to focus more on vertical integration and develop deeper domain space knowledge and provide a better integrated solution for targeted
vertical markets. SharePoint and the existing solution providers can co-exist and benefit customers.
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EMC Software:
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| SharePoint promises to bring some of the most common content management capabilities to the masses, which opens much wider doors for this technology to truly become mainstream. The ease-of-use that SharePoint provides along with the tight integration with the day-to-day desktop of most users is a real draw for any company. However, it doesn’t do everything. In addition,
SharePoint will likely be widespread in use, which poses some IT risk of controlling the growth and management of content created
by SharePoint users. ECM platforms can serve as the backbone behind SharePoint installations to give the users what they want, while giving IT what they need.
There are also many applications not well suited to a tool for the masses....companies with mission-critical processes, highly collaborative
applications, and strong records and security needs are going to bank their business on true ECM platforms. So Share-Point and ECM systems are highly complementary in all cases and enhance one another.
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Xerox Global Services:
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| Available in various iterations for several years, we’ve seen widespread adoption within organizations that use SharePoint for portal development and content delivery, lightweight document management, and the rollout to thousands of seats within organizations.
With Vista now available, Microsoft’s ECM vision has taken a big leap. As such, ECM vendors and service providers have had to integrate with the desktop, and this will continue — though Microsoft’s ability to expand past the desktop into full ECM components will change ECM
market dynamics in the coming years. We see synergy. Microsoft will not own ECM within organizations, but SharePoint will have greater
visibility and opportunities for partner extensions for large-scale or specific vertical ECM requirements.
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Eastman Kodak Company:
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| It’s exciting—a three-year overnight success, right? I think it’s good for everyone in the industry. I think it brings more visibility
and customers into the space. I think it will provide opportunities for people to have systems more sophisticated than SharePoint and I
think it’s going to educate the “unwashed” masses on the opportunity to improve efficiencies with ECM technology. It’s going to be interesting to watch it spawn new value add solutions wrapped around and connected to SharePoint. I see it as an incubator for solutions.
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Kofax:
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| The increased focus on ECM by large software companies like Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM is spurring unprecedented changes in the market. As players like Microsoft and Oracle are introducing
“just-good-enough” content services, pure-play ECM vendors are being forced to consolidate.
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February
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SOA has garnered an increasing amount of attention, what role does service-oriented architecture have to play in the industry?
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ABBYY Software:
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| Making services transparent to applications
makes integration a lot easier. Now you really can provide a handshake between information and applications. Corporations are buying all kinds of software and are facing the issue of how to
better integrate all of these applications and how to leverage the information among these applications more effi ciently. SOA targets
this pain point to remove or reduce it.
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EMC Software:
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| SOA promises true interoperability between systems via standards. SOA will enable customers to more easily adopt what they need, when they need it, which should lessen deployment costs as well.
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Xerox Global Services:
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| The basic premise of an SOA is to allow easy interoperability, “loose” coupling as opposed to hard-coding, and integration of systems. SOA is a very important component of an ECM strategy, which allows easier federation, access, and collaboration of/with various structured and unstructured data sources.
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Eastman Kodak Company:
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| We’re seeing interest in our scanner combined with the Kofax Digital Scan Server at least in part because of the ease of administration through the use of Web services.
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Kofax:
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| Essentially, we’re designing our product set as Web-based portlets as part of our SOA strategy, which will allow them to be integrated into any Web services-based application.
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