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The ECM Suites Report 2008 looks at... DocFlow's BPM Tool

"The Business Process Management facilities (called "DocFlow") in the Suite integrate nicely into its core document management functions. DocFlow is optimized for complex or high-throughput environments (up to 30,000 images per minute), but lacks the provision of a dashboard for management and analysis as you would see in most other BPM tools ..."

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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.

• Alfresco - Alfresco ECM
  - HQ: Maidenhead, UK -- Mentions: 6
• Vignette - V7 ECM Suite
  - HQ: Austin, TX, USA -- Mentions: 5
• Open Text - LiveLink ECM
  - HQ: Waterloo, Canada -- Mentions: 8
• Microsoft - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  - HQ: Redmond, WA, USA -- Mentions: 23
• Documentum (EMC) - Documentum D6
  - HQ: Pleasanton, CA, USA -- Mentions: 16
• Hyland Software, Inc. - OnBase 7.2
  - HQ: Westlake, OH, USA -- Mentions: 2
• IBM - FileNet P8 Platform
  - HQ: White Plains, NY, USA -- Mentions: 10
• Interwoven - ECM Solutions
  - HQ: San Jose, CA, USA -- Mentions: 4
• Xerox - DocuShare 6.0
  - HQ: Stamford, CT, USA -- Mentions: 3
• Oracle - Universal Content Management 10gR3
  - HQ: Redwood Shores, CA, USA -- Mentions: 12

Mid-range ECM

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

• 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
• 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

Specialty Vendors

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

• 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
• 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

Wondering how we compile these lists? Review our criteria.