The content management wars continue to heat up as Vignette
announced an agreement to acquire the
Tower Technology, a document processing and records management company that provides hooks into many corporate and governmental layers of content, including online transaction capture, unstructured content and reports that can be crawled and shredded for repurposable data. This makes a nice complement to their iManage and Intraspect acquisitions, which focused on the front end of collaborative content development, and begins to provide Vignette with a more authoritative range of capabilities to join ECM, IBM and others who are creating author-to-archive enterprise content management capabilities. As the ECM market continues to consolidate into systems that create true value of out enterprise content, the Publishing Organization is becoming a formidable force that can collect, mobilize and deploy content as effectively as a moden army of technology-enabled publishers. When these armies begin to take on the existing regimes of publishing, watch out!