Analysts Estimate that Global Enterprise Content Management Software Market Will Reach $4.2 Billon in 2010

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - August 26, 2007 - The Middle East operations of EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced the release of the EMC® Documentum® 6 enterprise content management (ECM) platform - enabling rapid and flexible development, configuration, and deployment of enterprise content applications.

The timing of the new platform release is ideal as the Middle East's content management sector is expanding due to increased corporate email and online content as well as changing regulatory requirements.

"With the release of the Documentum 6 platform, EMC continues to lead the Middle East into the next generation of enterprise content management, as it moves from a separate application platform to an integral part of an organization's information infrastructure," said Mohammed Amin, General Manager, EMC Middle East & North Africa. 

"By adopting a vendor-neutral, services-based approach to content management, EMC is truly changing the way that organizations in this region build, configure and deploy today's content applications," he added.

The Documentum 6 platform is a key piece of EMC's Documentum suite, a broad spectrum of ECM products that include software covering transactional content management, archiving, knowledge worker, compliance, interactive content management, and platform infrastructure.

Core to the Documentum 6 platform is its new services-based API (application programming interface) as well as new development tools that together revolutionize Documentum-based application development and configuration. 

Analysts respond positively to developments in the content management sector

In a recent report, industry analysts Gartner estimated that the worldwide enterprise content management (ECM) software market would grow more than 12 percent per year through 2010, from $2.6 billion in 2006 to more than $4.2 billion in 2010.  This year, Gartner projects that worldwide ECM revenue will reach $2.9 billion.[1]

"Enterprise information requirements - like regulatory compliance, eDiscovery readiness, corporate governance and others - cannot solely be met by basic content services (BCS) offerings today," said Toby Bell, Research VP at Gartner, Inc. "Therefore, companies are looking at enterprise content management as part of a strategy to build an information infrastructure that standardizes on services-based platforms, enables them to interconnect enterprise systems, data, and repositories, and lowers development costs while shortening the time to business value."

The highly flexible Documentum 6 platform supports content management and archiving applications, supplying common tools and services to manage content, processes and repositories. Key innovations for the Documentum 6 platform include:

  • Documentum Enterprise Content Services: a new, Web Services-based API that simplifies development and integration with ready-to-use enterprise content services for easy integration with other enterprise applications within a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). EMC's new services interface was redesigned to eliminate Documentum specific methods and terminology and replace it with a vendor-neutral framework for working with content management functionality.

  • Documentum Composer: provides a standardized environment for development and configuration tools that reduce the need for coding and facilitates composition of applications with reusable elements -- making the design, customization, deployment and maintenance of content applications faster and easier

  • Documentum Branch Office Caching Services: enables robust global scalability for enterprises with high-performance, remote application requirements by enabling all end-user operations - read, create, edit, version, search - to occur locally to a user, regardless of location, resulting in the fastest response times possible

These infrastructure innovations combine to make it significantly easier to build, configure, and deploy content applications. Additionally, by standardizing enterprise-wide on a common architecture, there are both IT savings and business benefits as information access, business processes and corporate policies span multiple applications.

The release is especially beneficial to EMC's wide network of Documentum resellers who build and implement solutions on the EMC Documentum platform.

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[1] Gartner Press Release, May 2007,  http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=506302

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