Microsoft Leader ECM Quadrant Gartner October 2009

Microsoft is in de october 2009 ECM Quadrant van Gartner tot Leader verkozen. Een klein uittreksel uit het artikel:

Gartner's analysis shows that organizations of all sizes and in all geographies are considering Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) because of the breadth of capabilities it offers, and because Microsoft is already one of their strategic infrastructure providers. As SharePoint takes hold in an organization, users naturally begin exploring its suitability for a wider range of content management applications and its potential as a replacement for existing solutions. But organizations requiring advanced content management capabilities and processcentric applications will need to augment SharePoint's capabilities with partner offerings or deploy MOSS 2007 alongside an ECM system, rather than as a replacement for it.

For organizations where broader information consistency and consistent semantic representations are critical, strategy will become somewhat more complicated. Issues like federated search, metadata strategies, and interoperability between content and records management systems will be critical considerations in SharePoint deployments. Although ECM vendors are touting their ability to integrate with SharePoint, it often isn't integration as much as copying files over. When evaluating integration, always attempt to have "one version of the truth."

Having one document in SharePoint and a supposed duplicate in an ECM system invites data integrity issues — if the documents actually aren't the same, which is the right one? (see "Five Best Practices for Deploying SharePoint Alongside ECM Suites"). Many enterprises have failed at content management and might be better advised to determine what percentage of content not to