<p>In the first part of our look at Forrester Wave for ECM 2013, we saw that the market is changing rapidly as vendors are forced to provide functionality that corresponds to enterprise productivity rather than compliance needs. We also saw that agile, small vendors are starting to eat away at the dominance of the large, established players. Even still, the Wave is led by EMC, IBM and OpenText, while HP pushed its way into the Leaders' segment on the back of the Autonomy acquisition.</p><p>Like all such reports, potential buyers should look across the entire range of vendors which were assessed in the study and many more besides before arriving at a purchase decision. This is particularly true now as many smaller vendors are providing specific functionality sets that may fulfill enterprise needs.</p><p>The vendors assessed this year include: Alfresco, EMC, HP Autonomy, Hyland, IBM, M-Files, Microsoft, Newgen, OpenText, Oracle, Perceptive, Unisys, Xerox.Vendors' Wave Profile Criteria</p><p>To develop their 'Wave 'profile vendors were assessed using 48 criteria, which were grouped in three categories:Current offering: ECM offerings were assessed on the basis of extended capabilities for managing content and processes. Forrester examined the products under three key areas of content management: business, transactional, and foundational.Strategy: Vendors were asked to outline their strategies for helping organizations align technologies with business and information management needs.Market presence: Vendors' current customer base was assessed and the portion of their ECM product revenue as a part of vendors' overall revenue was also taken into account.</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/forrester-wave-ecm-market-segments-as-emchp-ibm-opentext-lead-022621.php">Keep reading...</a></p>