2010 will bring renewed focus on internal content technology applications, according to research released by independent technology evaluation company, CMS Watch. The #1 prediction: Enterprise Content Management and Document Management will go separate ways.

 "After a recessionary period where many content technology investments focused on customer-facing systems, in 2010 we will see a renewed focus on internal applications,” said CMS Watch founder, Tony Byrne.

The predictions, listed on the CMS Watch blog and discussed on YouTube by CMS Watch principal Alan Pelz-Sharpe, are:

1. Enterprise Content Management and Document Management will go separate ways

2. Faceted search will pervade enterprise applications

3. Digital Asset Management vendors will focus on SharePoint integration over geographic expansion

4. Mobile will come of age for Document Management and Enterprise Search

5. Web Content Management vendors will give more love to Intranets

6. Enterprises will lead a thick client backlash

7. Cloud alternatives will become pervasive

8. Document Services will become an integrated part of ECM

9. Gadgets and Widgets will sweep the Portal world

10. Records Managers will face renewed resistance

11. Internal and external social and collaboration technologies will diverge

12. Multi-lingual requirements will rise to the fore

“Every year at this time we look forward and make our best guesses as to what the Content Technology industry will hold for us in the new year. Our hope is that we get most of the predictions correct, but if nothing else, we hope to spur on some lively, constructive debate,” said CMS Watch analyst Jarrod Gingras. 

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