Guest post today by: John Klinke, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle WebCenter Content
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Based on the announcement last week at EMC World about
Documentum for Life Sciences, it looks like EMC is starting to have regrets
about pulling out of the life sciences space over the last few years. Certainly
their content management customers and partners in life sciences have noticed
their retreat. Many of them are now talking to us about WebCenter Content since
they’ve seen the writing on the wall regarding Documentum’s decline, including falling
revenue, shrinking investment, departure of key executives, and EMC’s auditing
of existing customers.
While EMC has been neglecting the life sciences industry
over the last few years, Oracle has been increasing its investment and commitment
by providing best-of-breed solutions to enable pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech
and CRO companies to improve productivity and drive innovation. As a result, according to IDC Health Insights,
Oracle is #1 in life sciences. From research and
development through clinical development and manufacturing to sales and
marketing, Oracle provides the solutions that life sciences companies depend on
to accelerate R&D, expedite clinical trials, and speed time to market.
Specifically for Oracle WebCenter, our life sciences
business is booming thanks to our comprehensive offerings led by Oracle
WebCenter Content, our 21
CFR Part 11 compliant enterprise content management platform. Unlike
Documentum, WebCenter Content is all about keeping the cost of ownership low -
through simplicity, flexibility, and out-of-the-box integrations. WebCenter
Content is a single, comprehensive ECM platform that can handle all your
content management needs, from controlled documents to digital asset
management, records management and document imaging and capture. And it is much
more flexible, letting you do configuration changes instead of customizations
to meet your business needs. It also saves you money by being pre-integrated
with the rest of the Oracle Fusion Middleware technology stack and with leading
enterprise applications like Siebel (including Siebel CTMS), Primavera, E-Business
Suite, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft.
So if you think EMC’s announcement last week was too little
and too late, I’m happy to report that Oracle is here to help. Back in October,
we announced our Move
Off Documentum offer, which provides a 100% trade-in credit for your
Documentum licenses when you purchase Oracle WebCenter, and the good news is, this
offer is still available for a limited time. So stop maintaining Documentum and
start innovating with Oracle WebCenter. For more details see www.oracle.com/moveoff/documentum.
