Idars
Magic Quadrant for Integrated Document Archive and Retrieval Systems, 2006
Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00140780, Kenneth Chin, Toby Bell, 27 June 2006, R1997 06262007
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nterprises are continuing to consolidate their IDARS platforms as a cost-cutting measure that will limit market growth. IDARS vendors with only report management capabilities will struggle and must develop strategies and products to expand into adjacent archiving and content management markets.
process. For companies that want to outsource their IDARS applications, vendors such as Anacomp and Archive Systems provide hosted IDARS solutions for imaging and presentment. Integrated content archiving products are emerging, and IDARS vendors will be key players as different archiving platforms converge. The IDARS market has changed, and the evaluation criteria continue to evolve. Vendors that did not invest in new product functionality and marketing will naturally move to the left in the Magic Quadrant on vision. This does not imply that the products evaluated last year are now deficient. It just means that new requirements have added new challenges to the market that have yet to be met. The proliferation and influence of self-service
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
The integrated document archiving and retrieval system (IDARS) Magic Quadrant is focused on providers that offer solutions related to storage, access, management, distribution and viewing of fixed content, which includes print-stream reports and images. Vendors are bringing their archiving products together, including IDARS, email archiving, imaging and SAP archiving to leverage their repository Figure 1. Magic Quadrant for Integrated Document Archive and capabilities. Today, more than oneRetrieval Systems, 2006 third of the key vendors in the IDARS market are enterprise content challengers leaders management (ECM) suite vendors, so they have a significant influence on market direction. Consolidation has slowed in the IDARS market;
Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00140780, Kenneth Chin, Toby Bell, 27 June 2006, R1997 06262007
E
nterprises are continuing to consolidate their IDARS platforms as a cost-cutting measure that will limit market growth. IDARS vendors with only report management capabilities will struggle and must develop strategies and products to expand into adjacent archiving and content management markets.
process. For companies that want to outsource their IDARS applications, vendors such as Anacomp and Archive Systems provide hosted IDARS solutions for imaging and presentment. Integrated content archiving products are emerging, and IDARS vendors will be key players as different archiving platforms converge. The IDARS market has changed, and the evaluation criteria continue to evolve. Vendors that did not invest in new product functionality and marketing will naturally move to the left in the Magic Quadrant on vision. This does not imply that the products evaluated last year are now deficient. It just means that new requirements have added new challenges to the market that have yet to be met. The proliferation and influence of self-service
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
The integrated document archiving and retrieval system (IDARS) Magic Quadrant is focused on providers that offer solutions related to storage, access, management, distribution and viewing of fixed content, which includes print-stream reports and images. Vendors are bringing their archiving products together, including IDARS, email archiving, imaging and SAP archiving to leverage their repository Figure 1. Magic Quadrant for Integrated Document Archive and capabilities. Today, more than oneRetrieval Systems, 2006 third of the key vendors in the IDARS market are enterprise content challengers leaders management (ECM) suite vendors, so they have a significant influence on market direction. Consolidation has slowed in the IDARS market;