Andrew Warzech - Meta Group
Effective management of unstructured data - any kind of electronic information that does not fit in the neat rows and columns of a traditional relational database - is becoming increasingly vital to user organizations as electronic content types continue to proliferate (e.g., documents, images, e-mail, reports, product data, instant messages, rich media) and compliance issues increase (i.e., organizational risk).
Many large content-heavy organizations (e.g., finance, insurance, pharmaceuticals, government) are already using content management systems focusing on specific types of unstructured data (documents, images, reports, etc.). META Group research indicates that interest in content management systems is rapidly expanding to other industries, as well as more small and medium businesses.