This IDC study provides vendor-specific revenue and market shares for the leading content management vendors for the period 2005-2007. An updated five-year forecast as of March 2008 for the content management software market for the 2008-2012 period was published in Worldwide Content Management Software 2008-2012 Forecast: Continued Steady Growth (IDC #211346, March 2008).

"The content management software market, - including document management, capture and image management, Web content management, digital asset management, and records management - grew 10.2% in 2006," said Melissa Webster, program vice president, Content Technologies and Digital Media at IDC. "Growth in the content management market is being driven by several important business drivers - from the need to accelerate innovation and shorten time to market for new products and services to the need to streamline enterprise business processes that use unstructured information and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and manage risk."