eDocument Resources history

Under the framework of DOMEA, a project group was set up in 1998 to find solutions for the disposition and archiving of electronic records.

The following is a collated list of EDM (and related) products collated in November 1999:

The ‘Year 2000 problem’ was drawing attention away from the issue.

Rob was one of the co-founders of Altris), developed document management systems, including (according to this South African ITWeb post of 26 October 2001), eB, a ‘configuration management’ application.

FileNet released BrightSpire in 2002.

In Industry Trend Reports of May 2003, Bruce Silver (of Bruce Silver Associates) made the case for Enterprise Records Management in the wake of various ‘scandals’ involving the management of records at the time, including Enron/Anderson.

Stellent acquired Optika in early 2004.

A US SEC submission in January 2006 noted that Spescom Software Inc, a San Diego-based provider of computer integrated systems was the successor to Alpharel Inc and Altris Software Inc.

It would be acquired by HP Autonomy in 2007.

A graphic of the tower was used in the TRIM logo until the company was acquired by HP’s Software Division in 2008 (see also below).

In 2009, HP Autonomy acquired Interwoven, a niche provider of enterprise content management software mostly to the legal industry.

In March 2010, Google acquired DocVerse, an online document collaboration company.

In 2011, Hewlett-Packard acquired Autonomy, a deal that resulted in some interesting subsequent legal issues reading the value of the company.

In a July 2015 article titled ‘Looking for an Oracle IPM replacement‘ in the blog softwaredevelopmentforECM, it was noted that Oracle was ‘clearly, and publically, going in a different direction and moving away from traditional enterprise imaging and transactional content management’.

The following is a list of products identified by the Victorian Public Records Office (PROV) in 2020.