It is the nature of Enterprise Content Management that it is both an application and a platform. Over the last year, we have endeavored to build a solid repository and an initial set of applications on top of that repository. This is the core of our platform. Our primary focus was initially on getting Document Management and Knowledge Management portals out there along with the virtual file system capability of CIFS. These are our initial ECM applications.
By ECM, you may be referring to web content management. We have been adding web content management capabilities over the last couple of quarters and this is only the beginning. This is an area in which we have been hiring and you can expect some announcements in this area. Our WCM will evolve over the next several months and over the course of the year to move from a WCM platform (templating, web serving, etc.) to a full formed WCM.
As far as the other areas of ECM are concerned, such as records management, XML, image management, we will be adding platform capabilities to provide greater support in these areas. We hope that the community and 3rd parties with provide well-rounded solutions to simplify use in customer environments.
If there are any platform changes you need to support the applications that you are considering building, please let us know.
-john
