NEWS: Fujitsu enters Capture market

Interesting, as we all know Kofax and Captiva basically owned the market share of Capture Solutions for years. Captiva getting acquired by EMC years ago, and Kofax recently being acquired by Lexmark. Seems Fujitsu wants to play in the  game now too, partnering up and rebranding with Ephesoft to provide their own "Advance Capture" solution. 

Building upon its document scanner market share leadership of more than 15 years, Fujitsu has enhanced its scanning software offering to include Advanced Capture powered by Ephesoft* to ensure its customers continue to have an optimized document capture experience. By adding an advanced capture offering to its current PaperStream products, Fujitsu is providing clients with the option of obtaining a more efficient and streamlined solution.

Source: http://www.fujitsu.com/us/products/computi...

NEWS: 2014 Gartner ECM Review

Every year Gartner puts out a research paper on the best of the best for ECM (And practically every other industry). 2014 sees much of the same in the leaders from EMC, IBM, Microsoft, Preceptive (Now Lexmark), Hyland and Opentext.

The term "enterprise content management" (ECM) describes both a strategic framework and a technical architecture that supports all types of content (and format) throughout the content life cycle.

As a strategic framework, ECM can help enterprises take control of their content, and thereby boost productivity, encourage collaboration, help meet compliance initiatives, enable better content-centric processes and make information easier to share.

As a technical architecture, ECM consists of a platform or a set of applications that interoperate but that can be sold and used separately.

An ECM platform's core components, and their associated functional weightings for the purpose of scoring in this Magic Quadrant, are as follows:

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Source: http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints...

RUMOR: EMC & HP Merger or acquisition?

This was discussed all over the internet last year, but the two couldn't see eye to eye on value.

Well the rumor mill is back again. Some say mergers, some say outright buyout of EMC from HP.

With HP splitting itself into HP Enterprise, and a PCs and printers business called HP Inc, HP CEO Meg Whitman will become boss of HP Enterprise. Its valuation will be less than that of the current HP, which today stands at $59.92bn. EMC is capped at $59.2bn.

We could crudely see HP Enterprise being worth half of the current HP; roughly $15bn. That ought to make valuation less of a problem in any merger talks.

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/05/me...

NEWS: Lexmark finalizes acquisition of Kofax!

This was long overdue. Ever since EMC purchased Captiva it was only time before someone bought out Kofax!

  • Lexmark International, Inc. today announced that it has closed on its acquisition of Kofax Limited. Lexmark acquired Kofax in a cash transaction for $11.00 per share, for a total enterprise value of approximately $1 billion. This acquisition will nearly double the size of Lexmark's Enterprise Software annualized revenue to approximately $700 million.
     
  • Lexmark also announced that Scott Coons, president of Lexmark's Enterprise Software, has decided to retire, effective at the end of July 2015. Coons has successfully led Lexmark's software division since the company acquired Perceptive Software in 2010.
     
  • During Coons' tenure, Lexmark's Enterprise Software expanded from its enterprise content management software roots into process, capture and search technologies, and significantly strengthened the company's industry-focused solutions. Coons helped expand the Enterprise Software team's international footprint through organic sales investment and acquisitions. Coons will assist in the leadership transition until his retirement date.
     
  • Effective immediately, Reynolds C. Bish, CEO of Kofax, succeeds Coons as president of Lexmark's Enterprise Software. Bish will also be a Lexmark vice president and report directly toPaul Rooke, Lexmark chairman and chief executive officer. Bish has been active in enterprise software markets for more than 20 years. He has successfully led Kofax since 2007. Prior to Kofax, Bish co-founded Captiva Software Corporation and served as its president and chief executive officer from 1989 until its acquisition in 2005.
Source: http://newsroom.lexmark.com/2015-05-21-Lex...