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The ECM Suites Report 2008 looks at... Captaris Document Management

"The original product was released in 1993, and it remains focused on fixed content - i.e., image management. It is an unusual system in that it incorporates its own proprietary database. And interestingly for such a small vendor, it provides federated repository access for searching ..."

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Around the globe you can find hundreds of Enterprise Content Management tools. To make your life easier, we list only 30 of them, divided into three categories. These are not the "best" ECM tools, simply -- in our judgment -- the most significant today.

You can find a longer discussion of these categories -- along with comparative evaluations of these tools -- in The ECM Suites Report.

Major Suite Vendors

Large-scale, multi-dimensional product families with capacities that span diverse business use cases across multiple industries.

• Hyland Software, Inc. - OnBase 7.2
  - HQ: Westlake, OH, USA -- Mentions: 2
• IBM - FileNet P8 Platform
  - HQ: White Plains, NY, USA -- Mentions: 11
• Interwoven - ECM Solutions
  - HQ: San Jose, CA, USA -- Mentions: 5
• Xerox - DocuShare 6.0
  - HQ: Stamford, CT, USA -- Mentions: 3
• Oracle - Universal Content Management 10gR3
  - HQ: Redwood Shores, CA, USA -- Mentions: 14
• Alfresco - Alfresco ECM
  - HQ: Maidenhead, UK -- Mentions: 8
• Vignette - V7 ECM Suite
  - HQ: Austin, TX, USA -- Mentions: 6
• Open Text - LiveLink ECM
  - HQ: Waterloo, Canada -- Mentions: 10
• Microsoft - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  - HQ: Redmond, WA, USA -- Mentions: 28
• Documentum (EMC) - Documentum D6
  - HQ: Pleasanton, CA, USA -- Mentions: 18

Mid-range ECM

More focused document and records management products that tend to target more departmentally-oriented business problems.

• SpringCM - SpringCM 4.0
  - HQ: San Mateo, CA
• Newgen Software - Omni Suite
  - HQ: New Dehli, India
• EVER - EverSuite
  - HQ: Lyon, France
• TOWER Software - TRIM Context 6
  - HQ: Canberra, Australia -- Mentions: 3
• Objective Corporation - Objective 7
  - HQ: North Sydney, Australia -- Mentions: 1
• Saperion AG - Saperion ECM
  - HQ: Berlin, Germany -- Mentions: 2
• Nuxeo - Nuxeo 5
  - HQ: Paris, France -- Mentions: 2
• FormTek - Orion
  - HQ: Washington, DC, USA -- Mentions: 1
• Xythos - Enterprise Document Management Suite 7.0
  - HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA -- Mentions: 3

Specialty Vendors

These products target particular vertical industries or functional needs, and sometimes have a specific geographic footprint.

• Jahia - Jahia 5
  - HQ: Acasias, Switzerland
• Laserfiche - Information Access Platform
  - HQ: Long Beach, CA, USA -- Mentions: 1
• Geong - PortalAge
  - HQ: Beijing, China
• Infogrid Pacific - ECMS One
  - HQ: Singapore
• Altien, Ltd - Altien Document Manager
  - HQ: London, UK -- Mentions: 1
• Jam Warehouse - KnowledgeTree
  - HQ: Cape Town, South Africa
• Captaris - Alchemy
  - HQ: Bellevue, WA, USA
• Cimage - Fusion / e3
  - HQ: London, UK -- Mentions: 1
• ZyLAB - ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform
  - HQ: Amsterdam, Holland -- Mentions: 1
• Day Software - CRX
  - HQ: Basel, Switzerland
• Docubase Systems - Docubase Enterprise Suite
  - HQ: Boulogne-Billancourt, France -- Mentions: 1
• Autonomy - Meridio 5.0
  - HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA & Cambridge, UK -- Mentions: 4
• Vitova - VitalDoc 4.1
  - HQ: Hong Kong
• Enterprise Informatics - eB
  - HQ: Gauteng, South Africa
• NextPage - Nextpage 2 Document Collaboration
  - HQ: Draper, UT, USA
• Computer Associates - MDY CA Records Manager
  - HQ: Islandia, NY, USA -- Mentions: 1

Wondering how we compile these lists? Review our criteria.