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A little over a year ago, the ECM Maturity Model (ECM3) version 1 saw the light of day. The goal was (and still is) to tame Enterprise Content Management challenges in a step-by-step fashion and have a prescriptively descriptive framework to help organizations assess their own levels of maturity.

In version 2, more community feedback was included, and the doors are still open if you want to contribute your thoughts.

Last year when EMC (news, site) finally unveiled its updated version of Documentum -- v6.5 -- it offered the promise of “balance between business agility and IT control.”

While it came chock-a-block with new Web 2.0 abilities, for Wipro, the global IT solutions provider, the new document and record management abilities prompted them to develop a new Hosted Document Management (HDM) solution leveraging Documentum.

Unveiled at last week’s EMC World 2009, the new solution, which is entirely scalable, is already available for interested companies.

Trying to organize and implement Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions is a bit like wrestling a morphing blob of goo. Squeeze one part of the blob to get it under control and another section bulges out and falls on top of you.

For two years, a quartet of industry players has worked on ECM3 -- an ECM Maturity Model created to help organizations tame the mighty blob. Let's take a look at what they came up with.