ECM vendors have their heads in the cloud, can you see through the fog?
Posted by brennels on July 10, 2009
Jeff Potts from ecmarchitect.com I thought wrote a great article detailing the three areas of cloud computing.
“The hype around cloud computing has reached a fevered pitch so it is natural that ECM vendors try to take advantage of that as much as they can. Some examples from the open source ECM world:
- Alfresco always seems to be partnering with one cloud vendor or another. I went to a brief session on Alfresco, GoGrid, and ParaScale earlier this year. (As an aside, those GoGrid cycling socks, which I thought was a strange giveaway at the time, are awesome).
- At the end of last year eZ Publish announced a partnership with Mamut to provide eZ as SaaS.
- Just last week Nuxeo announced a cloud edition of its product.
Clearly, ECM vendors are busy figuring out how to take advantage of the cloud. But what does it mean for ECM to be “in the cloud”? When might it work for you?”
Read the full article here on ecmarchitect.com
