Key Findings:

• The market for XML content lifecycle solutions is expected to grow from $1.8 Billion in 2003 to over $11.6 Billion by 2008.
• Producers of content in the enterprise spend over 60% of their time locating, formatting, and structuring content and just 40% of their time actually creating it.
• By 2008, about 60% of all content lifecycle products will be XML-enabled.
• the primary challenge in the enterprise for producers of content — information that is intended for human consumption — is content reuse: the ability to integrate content from disparate sources.
• Efforts to improve content processes have been slowed by efforts to extract and manipulate content from multiple, disparate data sources.

Table of Contents:

• I. Report Scope
• II. The Growth and Management of Content in the Enterprise
  • 2.1. Sources and Growth of Content in the Enterprise
  • 2.2. The Content Management Challenge
  • 2.3. The Evolution of the Content Management System (CMS)
  • 2.4. Markup Languages and Content
• III. The Content Lifecycle
  • 3.1. Content Creation
  • 3.2. The Content Repository
  • 3.3. Content Management
  • 3.4. Content Publishing and Distribution
  • 3.5. Content Syndication
  • 3.6. Content Protection
• IV. XML-Enabling the Content Lifecycle
  • 4.1. Is XML Necessary for Improving the Content Lifecycle?
  • 4.2. Content Creation: XML-based Authoring and Conversion
  • 4.3. Content Repository: Native XML Storage and Search
  • 4.4. Content Management: XML-based Content Componentization
  • 4.5. Content Publishing and Distribution
  • 4.6. Content Syndication: XML Standards and Products
  • 4.7. Content Protection: XML-powered DRM
• V. The ROI of XML-enabling the Content Lifecycle
  • 5.1. Cost Savings: Content Reuse
  • 5.2. Cost Savings: Efficient Content Search
  • 5.3. Revenue Enhancing: Enabling Content Syndication
  • 5.4. Cost Savings: Integrating Islands of Content
• VI. Challenges in Implementing an XML-enabled Content Lifecycle
  • 6.1. Metadata-encoding Content is Difficult
  • 6.2. XML May Not be Suitable as a Long-term Archival Format
• VII. The Service-Oriented Vision of Content
  • 7.1. Shifting away from a Publish-oriented Mentality
  • 7.2. Content as Services: Service-Oriented Content
  • 7.3. Content Lifecycle Functionality as Services
• VIII. Market for XML-enabled Content Lifecycle Products
  • 8.1. Market Sizing and Growth
  • 8.2. Vendor Market Segmentation and Positioning
  • 8.3. The Future of Content Management Systems
• IX. Conclusions
  • 9.1. Key Notes
  • 9.2. Decision Points
  • 9.3. Figures
  • 9.4. Tables
• X. Profiled Vendors
  • 10.1. Content Creation
  • 10.2. Content Repository
  • 10.3. Content Management
  • 10.4. Content Publishing / Distribution
  • 10.5. Content Syndication
  • 10.6. Content Protection
• Related Research
• Trademark Notice and Statement of Opinion
• About ZapThink, LLC

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