Microsoft a Leader in Gartner Enterprise Content Management Magic Quadrant
The ECM MQ, authored by Karen Shegda, evaluates different vendors in the ECM space, and Microsoft moved from Visionary to Leader this year overtaking three other vendors for the best vision score on the MQ.
The report states, “Of all the infrastructure vendors, Microsoft has driven the most change in the ECM market over the past 18 months…by delivering a broad set of functionality using an infrastructure approach, Microsoft has changed the way organizations think about content management and collaboration.” The report also notes that, “In a 2008 Gartner survey, 57% of respondents had implemented WSS and 38% had adopted MOSS 2007; another 28% indicated that they planned to implement MOSS in the next 24 months. The growing SharePoint adoption is also creating opportunities for Microsoft’s partners, and even for its competitors, such as Open Text, as they look to supplement and extend SharePoint. It is slowly becoming an infrastructure platform that many workgroup and departmental applications will be built on by 2012.”