EMC Advised to Drop Documentum
March 26, 2014
Is this another flame-out in the world of enterprise content management systems? The Register has some fun with words as it reports, “Humdrum Documentum Momentum Makes EMC Glum? Off Alone into the Scrum it Should Be Spun.” Analysis firm 451 Research advises EMC to sell or spin off its Information Intelligence Group (IIG), parent of data platform Documentum. In his impact report, analyst Alan Pelz-Sharpe writes:
“At 451 Research, we believe it’s time for EMC to divorce itself of IIG, a product division that never really fit into EMC as a whole, and has continued to disappoint CEO Joe Tucci. There are two very good companies here, the storage and cloud giant EMC, and the business application wannabe IIG, aka Documentum. Both groups are trying to do the right thing, but find themselves pulling in different directions.”
Register writer Chris Mellor adds that competitors like Alfresco, IBM’s FileNet, and OpenText (there’s a chart for that one) seem to be leaving Documentum in the dust. Pelz-Sharpe asserts that setting IIG free would motivate them to rejuvenate their brand, while removing a business application division from EMC—a company he says is about application infrastructure, not applications themselves.
Cynthia Murrell, March 26, 2014
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