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•Guest Column: Looking Beyond The Open Source And SaaS Marketing Hype: Why Fast And Cheap ECM Deployment Is A Bad Idea

By Jim Thumma, VP of Sales and Marketing, Optical Image Technology

If you listen to the marketing hype, Open Source and SaaS ECM seem almost too good to be true. The new kids on the block have been getting a lot of press lately as they scramble to find their niche. And on the surface, it looks like they're starting to differentiate themselves from conventional ECM offerings with claims of low costs and quick installations, respectively. It's hard to resist the dual temptations of cheap and fast ECM implementation.

But like my grandfather used to say, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." If you're shopping around, you probably already know that a few of us conventional ECM vendors have been offering robust, affordable, easy-to-use solutions for decades. We've learned a few things over the years by working in the trenches and listening to our customers. One thing that we did not need to learn is that cheap and fast are recipes for disaster - or, at the very least, disappointment.

We have also cleaned up other vendors' failed installations enough to know that a fast deployment doesn't necessarily equate to a successful deployment. If you're drinking the Kool-Aid and thinking that affordable, fast ECM implementations are only available from Open Source and SaaS vendors, you would be wise to investigate a little deeper. Because the fact is that Open Source and SaaS are rarely inexpensive. And the idea that quick implementations aren't readily available from conventional ECM vendors is a fallacy. Why, then, does it typically take so long to deploy ECM?

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•Guest Column: Looking Beyond The Open Source And SaaS Marketing Hype: Why Fast And Cheap ECM Deployment Is A Bad Idea