Much has gone on in the ECM World in the past six weeks:
- AIIM, the Association for Information and Image Management(aka the ECM association) held its international conference in Philadelphia
- EMC hosted EMC World where it rebranded its ECM product offerings as Information Intelligence Group and announced new, deeper and/or more integrated relationships with SAP, Microsoft Sharepoint and Informatica
- Alfresco, not only held a capacity-filled Meetup in New York City (and in other cities around the world), but it also released a book, Professional Alfresco: Practical Solutions for Enterprise Content Management
- Microsoft launched Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2010 for the Enterprise
- Open Text won the 2010 SAP® Pinnacle Award, announced full support for Sharepoint 2010 ,bought long-time Documentum partner Burntsand, and showed a 5% loss in license revenue.
As far as I know, the only things these independent events have in common is that they occurred during the same general time period, that they are all ECM-related. and that they, in combination,shed light on what could impact anyone who works with, or uses, ECM technologies. To cut to the chase, be it good or bad, this is a time of big change.