Doculabs MarketFocus White Paper: Capabilities Evaluation of Xerox DocuShare 4.0

Enterprise content management (ECM) technology offers many business benefits, allowing users to share content and collaborate more effectively as part of their daily work processes. But for many organizations, ECM software products have proven to be too complex, time-consuming, and costly to deploy and maintain. There is a clear need for a straightforward content management solution that can provide organizations, large or small, both a faster return on investment and lower total cost of ownership. The Xerox DocuShare solution has evolved to meet these business needs.

Xerox commissioned Doculabs to conduct a formal assessment of DocuShare 4.0, released in October 2004. Overall, Doculabs was impressed with DocuShare’s range of features. It is clear that Xerox has made major improvements to the architecture and functional capabilities of the product since the previous version, allowing the product to meet the requirements of most ECM initiatives. DocuShare is easy to deploy and easy to use for line-of-business users, and its J2EE architecture will appeal to IT buyers. The net result is a solution that makes great sense – particularly for organizations that seek to roll out content and document management initially to departments or workgroups, with a longer-term strategy to extend the solution to the enterprise.