BoxWorks 2025: AI And Automation Take Center Stage
Learn the four key announcements that underscore Box’s commitment to AI and what they mean for Box customers.
Cheryl McKinnon
M-Files Embeds Itself More Deeply Into the Microsoft Ecosystem
On July 1, 2025, M-Files — the enterprise content management (ECM) vendor — announced a deepening of its strategic partnership with Microsoft. M-Files will now use Microsoft’s SharePoint Embedded as its foundational document repository. M-Files diffe…
Highlights From The Forrester Wave: Content Platforms, Q1 2025
The Forrester Wave: Content Platforms, Q1 2025 is now live! We looked at 12 key vendors and evaluated them on 24 criteria. Four Leaders emerged, followed by five Strong Performers and three Contenders. To learn more about these vendors and how they ser…
SharePoint Premium Makes Its Debut At Microsoft Ignite 2023
Amidst all of the buzz around Copilot at Microsoft Ignite last week, “SharePoint Premium” was revealed. While this is partially a branding and licensing streamlining effort, SharePoint Premium will continue to evolve into an AI-powered content platform…
Google Drives Into The Business Content Services Segment of ECM
Several Forrester colleagues and I attended the Google Next conference earlier this month, an event showcasing the Google Cloud Platform portfolio. One message, however, was distinctly NOT cloudy: Google is aiming at the enterprise market. And that inc…
Loose Lips Sink M&A Ships
Companies look for merger & acquisitions opportunities to boost their growth. But when confidential information gets exposed, it throws a monkeywrench into their confidential assessments, strategies and negotiations. Recent news proves this once…
The Documentum Shoe Finally Drops…As ECM Undergoes a Changing of the Guard
My colleague Craig Le Clair did a nice wrap-up of the long-anticipated news of the divestiture of the Enterprise Content Division (ECD) from the newly merged Dell-EMC entity. The move to spin off the Documentum, InfoArchive and Leap platform was expected, it wasn’t entirely clear over the last few months who the lucky buyer would be. Step up OpenText!
Craig’s post has some thoughtful recommendations for current ECD customers – for today and beyond 2017 – so I won’t rehash these points here: read it for yourself.
Today’s deal, however, caps a rollercoaster couple of weeks in the broader enterprise content management market. Old vendors are merging, divesting, and trying to reinvent themselves in adjacent markets. Just last week, HP Enterprise “merged” its information and content management portfolio – including its ECM and information governance products – with MicroFocus (a vendor with little name brand recognition in these markets)
Yet, new vendors are delivering real innovation in ECM. The OpenText acquisition of its key decades-long rival comes on the heels of the announcements from BoxWorks 2016, as well as Nuxeo’s $20M investment from Goldman Sachs.
Forrester’s 2016 ECM Panel Survey Is Open – Call for Participation
Forrester’s survey for ECM decision-makers is open, and we’re looking for your participation! Take this opportunity to provide your perspectives on the key vendors, the challenges, and the opportunities you see in this technology market. This survey is intended for ECM decision-makers or influencers in end user organizations. This is not for ECM vendors or systems integrators . . . but vendors and consultants — we would love it if you could share this survey invitation with your customers. The survey will remain open until end of day Monday August 1, 2016.
The survey will take approx 15-20 minutes to complete.
Why is your input important? Forrester uses this data to:
Navigate The Crowded Enterprise File Sync And Share Market By Asking These 3 Questions
Forrester defines Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) as the technologies that “allow organizations to share and replicate content across multiple devices, distributing files to employees and/or customers or partners outside the enterprise”.
Two For…
kCura Puts the CAAT Into The Bag . . . Acquires Long-time Partner Content Analyst Company
We’ve seen another acquisition in the shifting eDiscovery market this week as kCura, the developer of Relativity, announced its acquisition of Content Analyst Company, the brains behind the CAAT analytics engine (kCura’s press release is here). The acquisition is not entirely surprising. kCura has been relying on the CAAT engine to power its analytics offering for eight years. According to kCura, use of its Relativity Analytics offering “has grown by nearly 1,500 percent” since 2011, with more than 70% of current kCura’s customers with licenses.
What does this acquisition mean for kCura, its customers, and Content Analyst Company customers?
This is more than just one vendor acquiring a partner to bring its tech in-house. The markets kCura competes in are changing. Customers want better predictive coding workflows, reporting, and visualization capabilities. The momentum around technology-assisted review (TAR) in eDiscovery is growing globally. In February 2016, the Pyrrho Investments Limited v. MWB Property Limited case gave the green light to predictive coding software in the UK, with the decision (PDF) citing acceptance in US and other jurisdictions. Interest and adoption of analytics for eDiscovery and other investigative use cases will only grow. Now that machine learning and technology-assisted review processes have been OK’d by the courts, many of the objections to using software for automated categorization, security classifications, and other analysis of textual data will dissipate.
kCura Puts the CAAT Into The Bag . . . Acquires Long-time Partner Content Analyst Company
We’ve seen another acquisition in the shifting eDiscovery market this week as kCura, the developer of Relativity, announced its acquisition of Content Analyst Company, the brains behind the CAAT analytics engine (kCura’s press release is here). The acquisition is not entirely surprising. kCura has been relying on the CAAT engine to power its analytics offering for eight years. According to kCura, use of its Relativity Analytics offering “has grown by nearly 1,500 percent” since 2011, with more than 70% of current kCura’s customers with licenses.
What does this acquisition mean for kCura, its customers, and Content Analyst Company customers?
Forrester’s Annual ECM Panel Survey, 2015. Call for Participation — Deadline July 31, 2015
Forrester’s survey for ECM decision-makers is open, and we’re looking for your participation! Take this opportunity to provide your perspectives on the key vendors, the challenges, and the opportunities you see in this technology market. This survey is intended for ECM decision-makers or influencers in end user organizations. This is not for ECM vendors or systems integrators . . . but vendors and consultants — we would love it if you could share this survey invitation with your customers. The survey will remain open until end of day Friday, July 31, 2015.
Why is your input important? Forrester uses this data to:
- Keep our Content Management Playbook fresh and relevant. Clients who are embarking on a new or updated content initiative rely on these interconnected reports to understand the landscape and market direction and build out the business cases, continuous improvement plans, and the org charts to succeed.
- Track the trends and emerging use cases for ECM — for both business and transactional content services. Where are investments being made? How is cloud shaping your road map? What are the top challenges facing your programs today?
- Educate clients and nonclients alike via research, blog posts, webinars, and industry presentations. This survey data helps us validate and verify where ECM markets are evolving and aid you in making better investment decisions.
Please take this survey if you are a practitioner inside the private or public sector and make or influence decisions around ECM and/or archiving platforms. Survey participants will be provided with the survey results summary slide deck, if desired.