Stellent survives among giants: By staying focused on easy-to-deploy content applications tiny Stellent has managed to stay on the enterprise content management shortlist

摘要

The most recent story line in the enterprise content management (ECM) software category has seen the steady emergence of big infrastructure vendors-Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAP and EMC-as serious competitors for a variety of content management use-cases. Nevertheless, smaller ECM suite vendors continue to thrive. For example, Eden Prairie, MN-based Stellent is easily the smallest of the pack in terms of annual revenues (USD106 million in fiscal year 2005), yet it continues to make plenty of RFP shortlists and win its fair share of deals. Stellent's flagship product is the Universal Content Management (UCM) suite, but despite the moniker it tends to be purchased to solve specific business problems such as managing intranet documents, achieving regulatory compliance or supporting multiple Web sites.