Documentum, a leading provider of enterprise content management, today announced that following more than six years of successful business through partners, the company has opened an office in Stockholm to meet the growing needs of the Nordic region. The new office will help support a first class roster of more than 70 Documentum Nordic customers, which includes Nordea, SAS, ABB, and Ericsson. An active community of partners in the region include Tieto Enator, Xerox , Ergo, acando, PWC, Consignit and Icon.Medialab.
"Ovum estimates that the content management market sector in Western Europe will grow to around $846M by 2006, and the Scandinavian region will be a key area of this growth, comprising $76M," said Angela Ashenden, lead analyst, Ovum, the analyst and consulting company."
The Nordic territory is headed by John Pomeroy, an enterprise content management veteran with over five years experience with Documentum's products and customers. Pomeroy has filled various regional management positions for Documentum and has been instrumental in pioneering their regional expansion in EMEA.
"Documentum's presence in the Nordic region over the past six years has been mainly through distribution partners," Pomeroy said. "Today we have more than 70 enterprise content management customers across major industry sectors such as financial services, construction, government, pharmaceuticals and chemicals. The opening of this office will serve to demonstrate our growing commitment to this market and enable us to work much more closely with our customers and partners here to ensure that they get the most value from our enterprise content management platform."
Documentum (now OpenText) is a leading enterprise content management provider, automating the production, exchange, and personalization of all types of content, making it easier for the Global 2000 to gain competitive advantage by connecting employees, business partners and customers, worldwide. Built on an Internet-scale, XML-enabled and standards-compliant platform, Documentum products manage Web content, power portals, enable collaborative commerce, and solve regulatory content challenges. Over 300 partners across all major industries, including high tech, pharmaceutical, healthcare, consulting services, government, manufacturing, financial services, automotive, retail, and consumer goods, build and implement specialized applications using Documentum's content management infrastructure.