Enterprise output management

Enterprise output management (EOM) is an information technology practice that deals with the organization, formatting, management and distribution of data that is created by enterprise applications like banking information systems, insurance information systems, ERP (enterprise resource planning systems), CRM (customer relationship management), retail systems and many others.

Gartner research estimates the market of EOM solutions at $441 Million with 5% growth rate between 2006–2010. Distributed output management is defined by Gartner as middleware that drives the output process and supports the automated creation and delivery of business process and ad hoc documents. Middleware is software that is bridging between different software applications in terms of data formats, languages, communication protocols, etc.

Enterprise output management has the potential of reducing the cost of traditional printing by using digital output channels like email, fax and portals. This potential is very dependent on the adoption of these channels by the target customer group and is also directly affected by the cost of localized broadband.

Commercial solutions

• Umero Middleware
• Segmatix Systems - an Adacom company
• Barr Systems, LLC
• Systemware Content Server
• Levy, Ray & Shoup
• ModusOne of Perceptive Software
• Solimar Systems, Inc.
• Adobe LiveCycle
• Compart DocBridge
• CIDEON Output Management System
• FormScape / Transform
• Document Sciences
• HP Exstream
• GMC Software Technology
• PrintBOS
• Infinica
• ISIS Papyrus
• Thunderhead
• PBBI DOC1
• DocRunner by uServ
• VPSX by LRS
• PLOSSYS by SEAL Systems
• Actuates Xenos Group, multinational division of Actuate Corporation providing document transformation, ECM migration and enterprise output management solutions to major blue chip companies.

Sources

• Kenneth Chin, Toby Bell, James Lundy, MarketScope for Distributed Output Management, 13 March 2006. Gartner Archive