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Report Buyer, the online business research provider, has issued its new 'Content Management Infrastructure' report. This predicts major growth in sales of XML and web technology applications for content management. The report covers regulatory and legislative pressures as well as the usual commercial aspects.

WinterGreen Research, author of the report, sees the use of XML applications and web technologies as major drivers of growth in sales of content management packages. It has identified XML tags as the means to quantify inherently unstructured information leading to the valuable re-use of existing content. Another aspect covered by the report is the problem of handling excessive quantities of data, much of which can be significantly past its sell-by-date.

WinterGreen reports that "information is doubling at a rate of once every 7 months and this rate of increase is growing." It projects that the market for enterprise content management applications was worth $3.4b in 2007 and will triple to $9.7b in the next 7 years.

Whereas enterprise content management has historically majored on text-based material WinterGreen sees the Web2 influence adding audio, video, still images, blogs and wikis to the documents to be managed.

More at: reportbuyer.com