IBM Placed in Leaders Quadrant in Enterprise Content Management Magic Quadrant Report by Analyst Firm

Market Wire, September, 2007

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned IBM in the Leaders Quadrant of its new Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management.(1)

According to a recent Gartner, Inc. Dataquest report, IBM-File Net is the largest Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendor based on overall software revenue for 2006.(2) IBM believes its market footprint, along with its product sets and resources, positions the company well for large enterprise-wide deployments.

"We believe this evaluation from Gartner demonstrates that IBM's investment in a comprehensive portfolio of enterprise content management software and solutions has generated business growth and leadership," said Lee Roberts, general manager, IBM Enterprise Content Management. "Our commitment to addressing a broad set of content management challenges, along with our collaboration with key business partners, is delivering unique capabilities that support our customers' industry-specific needs."

According to the Gartner analysis, "leaders have the highest combined scores for their ability to execute and completeness of vision. They're currently doing well and are prepared for the future with a clearly articulated vision. In the context of content management, leaders have strong channel partners, a presence in multiple regions, consistent financial performance, broad platform support and good customer support. In addition, they dominate in one or more technology or vertical market. Greater emphasis was given this year to suite integration, for example, a common user interface, common code base and single repository; demonstrated enterprise deployments; integration with other business applications and content repositories; and a vertical process/solutions focus."

IBM's enterprise content management software supports the company's global Information on Demand initiative which provides customers with data exactly when and how they need it to improve their business processes, quickly respond to market needs and rapidly identify new business opportunities.

For more information on IBM's Enterprise Content Management offerings, visit http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/cm/

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

(1) Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2007, September 21, 2007, Karen M. Shegda

(2) Market Share: Enterprise Content Management, Worldwide, 2004-2006, May 2007, Tom Eid

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