Economic Outlook: Enterprise Content Management (Market Focus): Industry Report

Economic Outlook: Enterprise Content Management (Market Focus)

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Datamonitor
Published: June 2007
Product Code: R313-23941

Description

Introduction

Enterprise content management is emerging as one of the fastest growing enterprise application markets, thanks to a buoyant user investment outlook. After the recent spate of M&A activity the market is fairly consolidated and is expected to stabilize as vendors attempt to integrate a diverse set of technologies into a coherent product portfolio.

Scope

Provides an in-depth view of the current state of the enterprise content management market.

Details Datamonitor's view on the main trends currently affecting enterprise content management.

Examines the investment outlook, competitive dynamics and technology landscape in this market.

Highlights

An exponential growth in content generation and replication, along with an increasing tendency of content-centric collaboration within enterprises, is necessitating the adoption of enterprise-wide content management solutions.

As the benefits of adopting content management technologies become evident, enterprises are increasingly willing to invest in enterprise content management projects. Consequently, the market has emerged as the fastest growing segment in the enterprise applications space.

Datamonitor predicts that the ECM market, estimated to be around US$1.6 billion in 2006, will more than double in value to US$3.5 billion by 2012. The growth will primarily be driven by an increasing demand from enterprises as they look to deploy technology solutions to address the information accumulation challenge.

Reasons to Purchase

Understand the most significant trends affecting the enterprise content management market.

Gain an insight into end-user investment preferences and the prevalence of enterprise content management.

Develop strategies to leverage the growth expected in the market by prioritizing technology offerings and industry verticals.

Table of Contents

DATAMONITOR VIEW
CATALYST
SUMMARY
METHODOLOGY
ANALYSIS: A medley of mature and emerging technologies; The market is polarizing into three distinct delivery clusters; ECM penetrates both the enterprise and the SMB segments; ECM emerges as the fastest growing enterprise applications segment...; ...and is expected to top $2 billion in 2008 and reach $3.5 billion in license revenues by 2012; Emerging ECM technologies outpace traditional document management systems; The SMB segment is outstripping the enterprise segment; APAC and EMEA are growing fastest; Enterprises with small IT budgets are the prime movers for market growth; Investment outlook improves as the ECM business case gathers momentum; Co Content-aware business applications drive process efficiency and employee productivity; Customer service aspirations and cost reductions continue to drive ECM adoption further; Legal and regulatory compliance is emerging as a major ECM driver; The technology landscape is characterized by convergence, overlap and consolidation; Content management, business intelligence and product information management exhibit significant overlaps; ECM is converging with business process management, and assimilates workflow technologies; The Enterprise collaboration market is partially converging with ECM; Microsoft is expected to dominate the fast-growing SMB market and move higher up the value chain; EMC leads the overall market, with top positions in both market impact and technology strength; IBM is a leading player, with top position in user sentiment and a very strong technology platform; Open Text lags EMC and IBM, but has a strong vertical focus and a high market impact; Financial services, manufacturing and public sector each cross the $250 million mark; Incidence and growth varies greatly by vertical as ECM hits the mainstream; Life sciences and healthcare represent the fastest growing verticals for ECM; ECM adoption matures in financial services, energy and utilities; ECM growth to remain stable in manufacturing and media sectors
ACTIONS: Datamonitor advice on effectively responding to market dynamics
APPENDIX: Extended methodology; Further reading; Ask the analyst
List of Tables: Table 1: 2006 Revenues (in US$ millions) and Combined Market Share (%); Table 2: ECM market forecasts from 2006 to 2012, in US$ millions; Table 3: 2006 Revenues (in US$ millions) and Combined Market Share (%)
List of Figures: Figure 1: The Enterprise Content Management Universe; Figure 2: Analysis of vendor revenues and market share illustrates a polarized ECM market; Figure 3: Incidence of ECM technologies by enterprise revenues indicates an even penetration by size band; Figure 4: ECM outpaces all the other enterprise application technologies between 2007 and 2012*; Figure 5: Emerging technologies claim a bigger stake in the ECM stack; Figure 6: ECM investment outlook by annual IT budget; Figure 7: User investment outlook in the ECM space looks very strong; Figure 8: Technology Overlap between ECM, BI and PIM; Figure 9: The Enterprise Content Management Decision Matrix; Figure 10: Financial services, manufacturing and the public sector dominate the ECM market; Figure 11: ECM has a large penetration within financial services, energy and utilities verticals*; Figure 12: Life sciences grow twice as fast as financial services between 2007 and 2012

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