Half a Billion Up for Grabs in Document Collaboration and Nobody Wants It?

I ran across this ebizQ story (nice headline) on document collaboration and wanted to throw it out to the group. It looks like ebizQ references this Butler Group report.

"Butler Group estimates the size of the global Document Collaboration segment of the ECM market to be US$586 million in 2007."

OK, big need, lots of incumbent providers. So why does document collaboration suck? Are the enterprise vendors inept at pitching collaboration? Have users given up on the big software vendors for lack of integration and usability? Has everyone just developed a personal collaboration strategy using IM, email, and web 2.0 stuff until someone gets it right?

And specifically:

• What's everyone using these days for collaboration?
  
• Do the collaborative capabilities within your ECM platform satisfy your needs?
  
• What 3rd party collaboration tools have you plugged in?
  (BaseCamp, Zoho, Groove, Google Docs|JotSpot,cyn.in)

I'm curious.

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[Mark]

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