New Report Forecasts World Market for Content Management Systems
While Fedora may have once meant a type of hat, Magnolia, a type of flower and Alfresco, simply being outside — today any techie worth his salt will tell you that like WordPress or dotCMS, these are well-known Content Management Systems (CMS).
The techie will probably also tell you that it’s almost unthinkable in today’s content driven world to imagine a workplace without a Content Management System to organise, communicate and track information. For instance, a large proportion of information that a company creates is in the form of unstructured data. This could be in the form of spreadsheets, word files on employee computers, images or any other type of files. But companies have to make these accessible and available to several workers, customers or business partners. This is best done in an automated system to increase efficiency, reduce costs and repetitiveness and make employees more effective.
A new report, Content Applications Market 2007-2010, which stresses how critical it is for businesses to manage the content they produce, finds that the demand for content management is being driven by a shift from on-premise content management to web content management in the form of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.
Further, the need for content management is rising in proportion with increased collaboration among employees and use of Customer Relationships Management (CRM) and sales automation tools. Importantly, it is also being driven by compliances that require management of documents and other content over long periods of time.
The report forecasts the market size of content management applications over a three-year period from 2007-2010. In addition, the report identifies and highlights the key drivers for the content management applications for the major verticals.
