The world of turnkey electronic content management has few open source players, which helps a company like KnowledgeTree stand out. The ECM software category caters to a wide variety of industries, and each has its own complex set of requirements.
In 2004, KnowledgeTree CEO Daniel Chalef had no idea his interest in developing an open source document management product would thrust his South African company into prominence. That’s the time a government agency there approached him to help the Medical Research Council retain control of its documents and track shared access.
ECM has so few open source players due to the sheer complexity of internal information management requirements, which are typically workflow-driven