AIIM Is True For Content Management

Vignette plans to announce Linux support across its entire content-management, integration and portal line. The Austin, Texas, company last week also acquired Tower Technology, a records-management and workflow vendor.

FileNet will unveil Team Collaboration Manager, an application designed to let users remain in their familiar environments but apply enterprise rules and administration to their team efforts.

"You can enroll people at various security levels with privileges and access to calendars, polls, notes and comments," said Tom Deutsch, director of product marketing at the Costa Mesa, Calif., company. Document integrity is paramount, so regardless of what changes are entered, everyone will have access to the same document, he said.

Documentum, now part of EMC, will show its AX5 Channel Edition, which provides faster Web performance and easier administration, said John Magee, vice president of product marketing at the Pleasanton, Calif., company.

Optimized for Windows Server 2003, Documentum AX5 Channel Edition, which updates a Legato product, is available now.

Xerox plans to announce integration of IBM's DB2 Records Manager into its DocuShare Web content-management product. Xerox Chairman Anne Mulcahy will kick off the expo with a Monday keynote.

Despite the regulatory influence on content management, the biggest theme is consolidation.

"The big buzz is around who's acquiring and who's being acquired," said Lynda Brooks, vice president of sales and marketing at Thomas Tech, a Horsham, Pa.-based solution provider. With EMC acquiring Legato and then Documentum, Interwoven buying MediaBin and Open Text buying IXOS, all eyes are now on FileNet, she said.