CMSWire’s Irina Guseva recently published an article on what the Oracle + Sun deals means for the Content Management industry.
The article reviewed the predicted effects on Middleware and Content Management, Portal Technologies, Collaboration and Office Productivity, Java, the Database market, and Cloud Computing. You can find the original article at: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/oracle-sun-what-it-means-for-content-management-006561.php
Their conclusion on the combined effects indicates stability and comfort, “Some predictable changes aside, and with widespread M&As and industry consolidation, from what we see it’s nothing more than business as usual.”
We think business as usual is a great thing. Not only is the platform already an industry leading solution, with the proven path Oracle has been on it will continue to be an industry-leading platform.
Combine the fact that the platform stays stable with the huge advantage of owning JAVA, the portal, integration and hardware appliance expertise that SUN brings and you have the makings of a 100% complete system that is ready and able to scale to global enterprise levels.
Specific to the Middleware and Content Management technologies Irina states, “And why it’s still early, we think that Sun’s integration may bolster Oracle’s position in the content management market…”
We agree.
If you have already invested in this platform, this is good news for you. Your ECM system will continue to evolve to include different types of platform technologies allowing you to leverage the enterprise architecture investment’s you have already made, while providing money and time saving infrastructure, rationalization and consolidation opportunities.
If you’re on the fence about enterprise content management and collaboration systems, this is good news for you too. The industry as a whole will continue to evolve increasing the separation between the industry leaders and those lagging behind. Consolidation means more power will be available, better and tighter integrations with other systems (e.g. ERP, CRM, HCM) and a consistent way to re-use rather than re-create or re-discover information. All of this means time and cost savings for you.
Fishbowl will continue to help those who are thinking about or have invested in Oracle UCM to extend that investment and solve their business problems. We are not in the business of just selling technology or a bag of parts. We sell solutions; whether around migrations, internal or external websites, integrations, process automation and much more, we have the expertise to deliver faster and for less.
