CONTENT EXPLOSION FORCES BUNDLING OF DIVERSE ECM TOOLS

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Ask veteran IT professionals about the ongoing consolidation in the content management arena, and you will find that they are not only nonchalant about the convergence of their collaboration, document management, records management and other content-relatedpoint solutions, they believe it is the right thing to do. "We get that [merger and acquisition (M&A)} question a lot from all areas of our organization," said Dave Macko, associate vice president of IT at physician-led Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pa. "It's the nature of the beast. There's quite a bit of M&A activity in the technology industry, even more so in the healthcare industry It doesn't keep me up at night." Macko speaks from experience. His company's enterprise document/records management, imaging and workflow vendor ― Tower Technology ― was recently acquired by Austin, Texas-based Vignette Corp. Vignette is one of many vendors working to fill out its offerings to address the entire life cycle of content, from creation to consumption to archiving.