Here are some of the happenings of 2005 that might have an impact on the future of the PCM space. They are in no particular order.
1. Emergence of Google: Google appears much closer to “taking over the internet”. It launched services like My Google, Desktop search and Google Talk. These services are in the portals space and were aimed at making Google more than just a search engine. There were other services too.
Recently, EMC announced acquisitions of Acartus and Captiva in a bid to offer an end to end ECM offering. Both these products are on the opposite ends of the content life-cycle spectrum. Captiva is for managing content input (by scanning and digitization), whereas Acartus provides solution for content archival. So, now EMC has all the components required for managing content lifecycle - Captiva for content entry, Documentum for content management and finally Acartus for content archival. One component that it lacks though is a decent content delivery mechanism.
Captiva, however had strong relationships with other products too and it will be interesting to see if EMC will let Captiva continue and build those relationships?
The consolidation continues and another niche vendor is no more!
I’d blogged earlier about ECM market in Asia and India. As a result of the wide diversity in terms of cultures, languages and other factors, India provides some unique challenges to vendors considering creating products catering to this market.
So, another niche and stand alone player in the PCM space has been acquired. IBM announced acquisition of Bowstreet. Bowstreet, a hot company during the dot com days survived the crash and became a reputed company in the portal based tools space. I recently participated in a webinar by Bowstreet and was simply amazed by the portlet factory’s capabilities in building and deploying portlets. It not only makes it easy to build portlets but also has a lot of pre-built portlets. However, it would be interesting to see how this acquisition turns out because of the following factors: __(’Read the rest of this entry »’)
Apache announced Jetspeed 2.0. It is a major release and users of earlier versions will have to do some work for migrating to this version.
Unlike previous version, it is fully compliant with JSR-168. In that sense, it can now compete better with Liferay and JBoss. An area where it scores over others is that one can create portlets using PHP, Perl and CGI, JSF, Struts and so on using Apache’s Portals Bridges project. However, I think it still needs to improve on administration related features. For example, in Liferay, it is very easy to define new pages, define what portlets will appear on those pages and what the layout will be like. In these respects, Apache is a little behind Liferay and recently open sourced Sun.
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