CMS Watch ECM Suites Vendor List
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: 18 - Nuxeo - Nuxeo Enterprise Platform 5
- HQ: Paris, France -- Mentions: 7 - Autonomy - ECM Solutions
- HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA & Cambridge, UK -- Mentions: 14 - Open Text - LiveLink ECM Suite
- HQ: Waterloo, Canada -- Mentions: 23 - Vignette - V7 ECM Suite
- HQ: Austin, TX, USA -- Mentions: 12 - Hyland Software, Inc. - OnBase 7.2
- HQ: Westlake, OH, USA -- Mentions: 5 - Microsoft - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- HQ: Redmond, WA, USA -- Mentions: 39 - Documentum (EMC) - Documentum D6
- HQ: Pleasanton, CA, USA -- Mentions: 28 - Xerox - DocuShare 6.1
- HQ: Stamford, CT, USA -- Mentions: 5 - IBM - FileNet P8 Platform
- HQ: White Plains, NY, USA -- Mentions: 25 - Oracle - Enterprise Content Management Suite 10gR3
- HQ: Redwood Shores, CA, USA -- Mentions: 21
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: 4 - SpringCM - SpringCM 4.4
- HQ: San Mateo, CA -- Mentions: 4 - FormTek - Orion
- HQ: Washington, DC, USA -- Mentions: 3 - Xythos - Xythos Enterprise Document Management Suite 7.0
- HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA -- Mentions: 5 - Newgen Software - Omni Suite
- HQ: New Dehli, India -- Mentions: 4 - HP - TRIM Context 6 R2
- HQ: Palo Alto, California, USA -- Mentions: 8 - EVER - EverSuite
- HQ: Lyon, France -- Mentions: 3 - Laserfiche - Information Access Platform
- HQ: Long Beach, CA, USA -- Mentions: 4 - Pitney Bowes - OpenEDMS
- HQ: Stamford, CT, US -- Mentions: 1 - Objective Corporation - Objective 7
- HQ: North Sydney, Australia -- Mentions: 10
Specialty Vendors
These products target particular vertical industries or functional needs, and sometimes have a specific geographic footprint.
- Brainware - IDC-Distiller
- HQ: Ashburn, VA, US -- Mentions: 4 - Enterprise Informatics - eB
- HQ: Gauteng, South Africa -- Mentions: 1 - Autonomy - Meridio 5.1
- HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA & Cambridge, UK -- Mentions: 8 - ISIS - ISIS Papyrus
- HQ: Vienna, Austria -- Mentions: 2 - Kofax - Ascent 8.0
- HQ: Irvine, CA, US -- Mentions: 3 - Geong - PortalAge
- HQ: Beijing, China -- Mentions: 2 - KnowledgeTree - KnowledgeTree
- HQ: San Francisco, CA, US -- Mentions: 3 - ReadSoft - DOCUMENTS
- HQ: Helsingborg, Sweden -- Mentions: 2 - Infogrid Pacific - ECMS One
- HQ: Singapore -- Mentions: 3 - CA - MDY CA Records Manager
- HQ: Islandia, NY, USA -- Mentions: 3 - Salesforce.com - Salesforce Content
- HQ: San Francisco, CA, US -- Mentions: 1 - Sword Group - Fusion
- HQ: Lyon, France -- Mentions: 2 - Adobe - LiveCycle ES
- HQ: San Jose, CA US -- Mentions: 2 - ABBYY - FineReader 9.0
- HQ: Moscow, Russia -- Mentions: 4 - Vitova - VitalDoc 4.1
- HQ: Hong Kong -- Mentions: 1 - Captaris - Document Management
- HQ: Bellevue, WA, US -- Mentions: 2 - ZyLAB - Information Access Platform
- HQ: Amsterdam, Holland -- Mentions: 3
Wondering how we compile these lists? Review our criteria.