Survey shows strong growth in content management industry
May 28, 2010 by Steve HannafordPosted in: Dealers & Channel, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views
Corporate data management took big strides over the past year, in spite of the recession.
That’s according to the results of the recent annual AIIM survey. (AIIM is the Association for Information and Image Management, an industry trade group dedicated to corporate data management.)
The survey of over 750 knowledge workers showed 17% of those surveyed worked in companies putting an ECM system in place for the first time. It also showed 17% of companies in the process of replacing their legacy ECM system with a more open system, particularly one using Microsoft’s SharePoint software.
Among the other findings:
- A majority of current ECM users stressed increased productivity and optimized business processes as reasons for expanding their investment
- New customers cited the need for controlling the chaos of paper documents, digital documents, and e-mail as key reasons for getting serious about serious data management
- Growth in at least some usage of SharePoint went form 42% of companies in 2009 to 53% in 2010, and
- Use of cloud-based document management is set to double from 6% to 12% of companies, though most companies still have doubts about the safety of cloud computing.
According to AIIM president, John Mancini, “We have seen a tipping point in information management over the last year or so. For many organizations, their only hope of coping with the deluge of generated content from within and beyond their organizations is to invest in an ECM system.”
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