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Stellent, Inc. - Content Management Systems -
Category Directory
(952)
903-2000
7777
Golden Triangle Drive
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
www.stellent.com
Sales
$76
million
Business Description
In
1997, we launched one of the first software product suites on the market
that was fully developed and created expressly for Web-based content and
document management. At the time, content management — today considered a
critical component of an organization’s communication and information
technology (IT) infrastructure — was an emerging technology used to help
companies easily and quickly share information with employees, partners,
customers and prospects using the World Wide Web.
Currently, our solutions — which are comprised of Universal Content
Management software and Content Components software — help customers
worldwide solve business problems related to efficiently creating, managing
and sharing critical information.
PRODUCTS
Our product set is comprised of two main categories: Universal Content
Management Software and Content Components Software.
Universal Content Management Software
Universal Content Management is Stellent’s primary software product,
consisting of one server that houses multiple applications. These
applications help organizations manage their business information — such as
records, legal documents, Web content and graphics — from the time it’s
created to the time it’s archived or disposed of, so that employees,
customers, partners and investors can more easily find, access and re-use
that information. With Stellent software, customers can increase employee
productivity, reduce expenses and improve company-wide collaboration and
communication.
Our Universal Content Management software addresses the key elements of
content management — web content management, document management,
collaboration, digital asset management, and records management — from one
platform, enabling customers to fully utilize their content management
investment across the organization. We believe our tightly integrated
products allow companies to implement content management applications using
fewer products and consulting services than other content management
offerings, which can lead to a lower total cost of ownership. For example,
while some content management providers have acquired products and companies
to fulfill the functionality provided by Universal Content Management,
integrating those disparate systems is often difficult and requires
customers to spend more time and money on expensive consulting services to
get the systems implemented.
The Stellent system is also easy to use. Users can submit, or contribute,
business content — such as a word processing document, spreadsheet or CAD
file — to the Stellent system, and Stellent automatically converts the file
to a format that can be viewed on a web site. This automatic conversion
capability enables even non-technical users to publish information easily to
a site, such as an employee portal or partner extranet, so that the
information can be shared with other users.
Our Universal Content Management software is comprised primarily of the
Stellent Content Server and five key application modules, described below.
The Stellent Content Server is a fully functional system providing
management with a secure, personalized delivery of business information. It
provides a set of services — such as check-in/check-out, revision control
and subscription services — that help ensure users can access only the most
current information. Content Server also provides security, workflow,
searching, archiving and distribution of information to multiple Content
Servers.
On top of the Stellent Content Server, users can add the following five key
content management application modules:
• Web Content Management: Enables organizations to create web content, and
manage and publish web sites.
• Document Management: Provides web-based management, collaboration and
access to business documents created in common office software applications.
• Collaboration Management: Enables creation of a project or team space for
sharing documents, schedules and discussions among a team via the web.
• Records Management: Provides a web-based method for managing business
records and creating rules regarding the disposition of that content, such
as expiration, archiving and deletion.
• Digital Asset Management: Enables digital assets — such as photos,
graphics, audio clips and video clips — to be searched, accessed, viewed,
managed and distributed via the web.
We expect the acquisition of Optika to enhance our Universal Content
Management software’s capabilities in the areas of document imaging,
business process management, and compliance.
Content Components Software
Stellent’s Content Components software makes information created in more
than 225 common office software applications more accessible to the business
users that need it. Other technology companies embed this technology in
their own products to enable their users to view and convert business
information to formats viewable on handheld devices or in a web browser.
Such information is often difficult to find and view without access to the
software application that created it; with Stellent’s Content Components
software, users can locate and view this information, even if they don’t
have the software application that created the file installed on their
desktop or handheld device. These technologies are also integrated into
Stellent’s Universal Content Management software.
These technologies support multiple operating systems and international
environments, and enable access to documents in applications for diverse
markets such as content management, search and retrieval, security and
policy management, mobile and wireless, messaging, collaboration and
publishing.
CONSULTING SERVICES
Our consulting services group is focused on delivering value-based content
management solutions to our customers. Our consulting services professionals
employ a combination of business analysis, enterprise architecture,
application analysis, installation, configuration, development and
integration skills with experience-based project methodology and management
knowledge to facilitate the rollout of content management solutions at all
levels of a customer’s organization. Available on a worldwide basis, we act
as a business partner to our customers by providing a broad spectrum of
services including:
• Technical architecture analysis and needs assessment, such as software,
security and metadata analysis
• Solutions development and deployment strategies
• Software installation and configuration
• Custom application development
• Third party product integration
• Project management
• Knowledge transfer
These services can be offered in conjunction with our software products to
new customers, or on a stand alone basis to our existing customers to assist
them in driving additional content management solutions across their
enterprises. These services are sold in conjunction with our software
products and are offered for fees, the amount of which depends on the nature
and scope of the project.
COMPETITION
The market for content management and content component software is
intensely competitive, subject to rapid technological change and
significantly affected by new product introductions and other market
activities of industry participants. We believe that our competitive
advantages include superior technology and lower overall cost of ownership
than our competitors. However, we expect competition to persist and
intensify in the future. Our primary source of competition, across the range
of our product and service offerings, is from Web content management or
components products offered by companies such as EMC Corporation, FileNET
Corporation, IBM Corporation, Interwoven, Inc., Microsoft Corporation,
Verity, Inc., and Vignette Corporation. We also compete with current or
potential customers who may develop solutions internally.
Many of our competitors have longer operating histories and significantly
greater financial, technical, marketing and other resources than we do and
thus may be able to respond more quickly to new or changing opportunities,
technologies and customer requirements. In particular, we believe that EMC
Corporation, FileNet Corporation, IBM Corporation and Microsoft Corporation
all have larger market positions than we do. Also, many current and
potential competitors have greater name recognition and access to larger
customer bases than we have. Such competitors may be able to undertake more
extensive promotional activities and offer more attractive terms to
purchasers than we can. In addition, current and potential competitors have
established or may establish cooperative relationships among themselves or
with third parties to enhance their products. Accordingly, it is possible
that new competitors or alliances among competitors may emerge and rapidly
acquire significant market share.
Competition in our market could materially and adversely affect our ability
to obtain revenues from software license fees from new or existing customers
on terms favorable to us. Further, competitive pressures may require us to
reduce the price of our software. In either case, we cannot be sure that we
will be able to compete successfully with existing or new competitors or
that competition will not have a material adverse effect on our business,
operating results and financial condition.
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