In search for EDMS

If you are spending a week, you have found by now that there is a wide range of solutions, several architectures, and several price points.

To narrow your search, begin to develop a business case. Establish the major features that will be delivered, prioritize them, estimate their value to the company. This will begin to lead you to a TCo. From that you can begin to estimate price point for license, maintenance, internal/ external support.

The two companies that I have dealt with are Documentum, and OpenText. While these companies have different histories, their products overlap in some areas.

I have pasted in some material from PC World that might help...

"In general, however, Wilkoff divides vendors into four main camps:

Content management veterans: Companies such as CMS pioneers Vignette and Interwoven have been around almost as long as the Web itself and remain market leaders. Extremely powerful and versatile, their offerings are correspondingly expensive. Some, including Vignette, bundle e-commerce options into their products.

Document management vendors: Companies like Documentum and FileNet have drawn on their expertise in traditional document management to tailor products for Web content formatting and delivery. The resulting CMS programs tend to support strong management of workflow, version control, and the overall process.

E-commerce crossovers: These companies are e-commerce software vendors that branched out into content management. Open Market made CMS its flagship product after it bought FutureTense in October 1999, and BroadVision acquired InterLeaf in January 2000.

Niche players: This segment of the market is composed of smaller companies that specialize in key areas. IntraNet Solutions, for example, concentrates on extranet and intranet deployments, and EBT is known for its work with XML."

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