New Gartner Magic Quadrant for ECM, 2007

Gartner published last week their new Magic Quadrant for ECM, and you can access this report for free courtesy of OpenText. Gartner sees ECM as an "umbrella"-term that encompasses the following core components:

• Document Management
• Document Imaging
• Electronic Records Management
• Workflow
• Web Content Management
• Document-Centric Collaboration

According to Gartner, the ECM market is worth approximately $2.9 billion in 2007 in worldwide software revenue, and they expect a compound annual growth rate of 12.9% through 2011. This is a healthy market, but it is also one that is undergoing transformation. Content technologies are steadily gaining more capabilities to handle some aspects of structured data as well as unstructured data, and Gartner's vision for the evolutionary path of these technologies is called enterprise information management (EIM).

By Atle Skjekkeland.