The Forrester Wave for ECM Suites in 2007 is out, and like its rival the Gartner Magic Quadrant, it has listed IBM as the leader in Enterprise Content Management.
The folks at Gartner have come up with another iteration of their “Magic” Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendors with what appears to be a very short-sighted perspective -- an intentional exclusion of Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors as part of the market for content management software.
This naturally begs the question, why not include them? A big part of an analyst firm’s focus should be on what’s coming, as opposed to what has already happened.
It's that time of year again. The researchers at Gartner retreat into seclusion at their hidden compound and combine the secret ingredients needed to create the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management. Some people rub their hands, some shake their heads, and some scoff.
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