Thursday, September 24, 2009

Is UCM better placed than rest of the Gang?

         I am no high profile analyst, these taughts are purely from the trench. Is Oracle UCM offering better placed than FileNet or Documentum?
         Documnetum guys are still converting there basic doc management code to services, and stoping support for there earlier version and forcing business to migrate to new expensive versions. Thanks to oracles backing now UCM can be integrated with there other fusion middleware products like SOA, BPEL processor, weblogic server.
         For the FileNet folks they were never a major player when it came to WCM, in case you are looking for a intranet site integrated to your document management solution you end wirting the custom application interacting with FileNet.
         One draw back for UCM was the relatively large learning cruve required to integrate with existing J2EE apps, as you had to do things UCM way instead, with RIDC's introduction curve is a bit more smooth.
         Let me know what you think are the features that will clinch deals in favor of UCM

4 comments:

Anthony Fast said...

Interesting question.
I think, you can't really compare these products on a WCM level.
By the way, none of the mentioned products is on the CMS short list of J.Boye (CMS shortlist). According to the ECM Suite Reports (2007) from CMS Watch, the UCM repository will not scale to same levels as IBM & EMC.
When is comes to big implementations, scalability has always highest priority.

Anthony

Chandra said...

good to see you back to blogging... keep posting regularly.. would love to read...

cmstechie said...

Hi Anthony,
Thanks for sharing your insights. Usually large organisations are made of several acquisitions, where individual entities use various different products. Some where down the lane some hot shot manager would want to replace all this in a million dollar project.
CMS watch in its ECM report says that only 20% of CM implementation succeed.
This is where a SOA or CMIS will make sense.
Oracle has a lot to sell in these cases. I just hope they don't produce complex products which would require only oracle consultants to integrate.

cmstechie said...

Hi Chandra,
Thanks for encouraging words.

regards,