Comments on: Forrester and Enterprise Content Management

By: Hakan

Hakan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:57:27 +0000

it would be insightful for you to read the following:
http://hakanakbas.blogspot.com/2009/08/consolidation-in-enterprise-content_574.html

By: Otis Gospodnetic

Otis Gospodnetic — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:08:52 +0000

What I find interesting is that 3 of 4 of the above mentioned companies use Lucene under their hood.
* ECM uses Lucene (or Solr?) in their Documentum(?) product
* IBM uses Lucene in one of the OmniFind editions
* Oracle uses Lucene through its purchase of TripleHop several years ago (http://www.oracle.com/triplehop/index.html)

I don’t know about Open Text, but I would not be surprised if they, too, used Lucene or something free and Lucene-like under the hood.

By: sperky undernet

sperky undernet — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:08:50 +0000

I assume your take is that Forrester, as well as the others, are marketing, rather than analyzing. I hope so. Because if they are trying to analyze and they come up with results like these *at whatever the cost* to them or to us – the significance is that they are not succeeding in getting even “good enough” results.

Or is this a case of the freebie that doesn’t contain enough meat to whet the appetite of the potential purchaser of the $1749 report? For instance, *eight* vendors are mentioned discussing the same report at:
http://www.contentmanagement.net/ibm-oracle-open-text-dominate-a-recent-enterprise-content-manahement-report-released-by-forrester-research.php
This is more informative than Forrester’s own listing
http://www.forrester.com/rb/Research/wave%26trade%3B_enterprise_content_management_suites%2C_q4_2009/q/id/48033/t/2

So, is this not good enough PR for a not good enough report? Or not good enough PR for a good enough report?

How nice it would be to have an Overflight service comparing industry market research reports – oh… – maybe it already *replaces* them.