<p>Last week at the Gilbane Conference in Boston, Stephen Powers from Forrester postulated that web content management and enterprise content management might have more in common than we previously thought--but not necessarily for the reasons you might think.</p><p>Powers admitted that for years he had told clients that WCM was very different from ECM, but there is a place today where they are overlapping. "We remember the Utopian dream of the ECM content management suite," he said. There would be one big content repository and a set of applications on top of that including document management, asset management and so forth and all would be from single vendor and would have similar look and feel. Sounds great doesn't it?</p><p>Powers explained that there was a big flaw in this approach though. "This idea of ECM suite didn't exist," he said "because nobody had best of breed ECM solutions [across all application categories], and even if some vendor did come out with an end-to-end suite, most clients would have said we can't do rip and replace."</p><p>Since no one vendor could really do it all for a company, the model moved from a one-stop shop to one where vendors sold different solutions for different types of content.</p><p><a href="http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/wcm-ecm-have-more-common-you-think/2012-12-03">Keep reading...</a></p>