En este mensaje Phil Green realiza un breve comentario en el que analiza las que cree serán las principales tendencias en el mercado de los desarrollos ECM para el próximo año 2004. Estas son:

- Creciente importancia del XML y de sus estándares asociados, debido principalmente al incremento de la necesidad por parte de las compañías de obtener información de contenidos no estructurados.

- Mayor atención por parte de todo tipo de empresa a la necesidad de gestionar la información y contenidos generados internamente y que ahora se encuentran perdidos en las organizaciones.

- La salida al mercado de nuevas herramientas para el XML más fáciles de utilizar, y por lo tanto más efectivas, para el usuario final.

Reproducimos a continuación el mensaje original en inglés.

Trends that will impact content and information management in 2004 - A
letter from Phil Green, President & CEO, Inmagic

Dear Inmagic Customer,

As we near the beginning of another new year, it seems appropriate to
reflect on the trends that we at Inmagic believe will impact the content and information management world in 2004 and beyond. There are three that come to mind:

First, the growing importance of XML and related standards. XML makes it possible to extract information from unstructured content such as the voluminous business documentation that exists in most organizations, to tag that content and to then transmit the content across applications. As Marc Strohlein, Vice President and Lead Analyst at Outsell, recently commented in an Inmagic Web seminar: XML offers an opportunity to bring information into enterprise applications and improve utilization and productivity on the part of the individual employee.Inmagic has and will continue to embrace XML, SOAP, the standard database environment of Microsoft SQL Server, and
other standards, as we deliver new products and features to our customers.

Second, the increasing need to focus attention on managing INTERNAL
content resources, bringing the traditional tools of library science and information management to internal file repositories. We have conversations with customers every day who are looking to aggregate, organize and deploy the valuable information that is too often physically secure but logically lost within their organizations. Inmagic now offers products for both DB/TextWorks and Inmagic Content Server that can facilitate this process.

If you have not familiarized yourself with the capabilities of Inmagic
Gatherer or GathererPLUS, we encourage you to sign up for one of our
seminars listed below.

Third, and ultimately most important, are the new tools XML among them
that are making it more and more possible to deliver a truly rich
information retrieval experience for end-users within our organizations. You will hear more on this from us as 2004 unfolds. The recent introduction of Microsoft’s Office 2003 and InfoPath, which allow you to create valid XML content directly from familiar desktop tools, will have wide-reaching effects on information and content management. We also expect to see classification and categorization of content grow in importance as end-users require and expect browsable directories to complement the standard search.

We expect 2004 to be a year of exciting new developments in content and
information management. We’ll be watching these trends and others as the year progresses.

Yours truly,
Phillip L. Green, President and CEO