COLLABORATION AND CONTENT

Historically, collaboration and content concerns have been relatively separable, often with different vendors addressing various concerns:

• collaborative applications
• collaborative workspaces
• content management
• records management
• search and web content management.

As work becomes more communication and information intensive and regulatory requirements become more stringent, it’s critical to gain comprehensive control of collaboration and content-related technologies, and to avoid architectural chaos, infrastructure complexity, and tool redundancy.

Market dynamics are converging to create unprecedented opportunities for more effective collaboration and content management. This includes a new model with channels for communication, workspaces for collaboration, consolidated content services (increasingly based on database management systems extended with native XML data model support), and enterprise search (including new tagging and “folksonomy” practices). The advent of presence-enabled applications, blogs, wikis, peer-to-peer, and open source alternatives is also reshaping the collaboration and content market landscape.

Catalyst Conference will address a more strategic imperative, as well as a strong opportunity to improve organizational productivity and process performance. Sessions devoted to this topic will also explain how the new collaboration/content model, in conjunction with recent advances in database technology, is poised to fundamentally alter the content and document management markets.