Partnering for content management

A roundup of the activity surrounding enterprise content management providers.

Enterprise content management providers and storage vendors are teaming over unstructured data. Activity includes:

• EMC acquired Documentum, which created a separate business unit for enterprise content management (ECM).

• Documentum acquired askOnce, a Xerox business unit with virtual repository technology.

• Network Appliance and FileNet have teamed to integrate their respective information life-cycle management and ECM tools.

• Veritas Software has partnered with companies such as search vendor Autonomy and FileNet as part of a data life-cycle management initiative.

• HP has teamed with companies such as FileNet, Documentum and IXOS, which OpenText acquired.

Analysts say enterprise users should expect to see more partnerships and possibly acquisitions as the industry cements around this idea of integrating content management and storage management tools.