Web 2.0 – BPM, SOA and SaaS Converge at DocuVantage

I received over 40 emails from people asking me to explain the idea of the solutions platforms.  Right now, I will go one better, I will provide and example of all the above - delivered as a solution. 

We’ve all read about companies and vendors that have customers using their collaboration tool and the vendors call it – Web 2.0 or Enterprise Web 2.0.  We haven’t heard much about vendors customers that use the products to make existing problems and issues better.  That is about to change.  Web 2.0 and Enterprise Web 2.0 are not just about collaboration.  They are about solving customer issues by using existing or legacy infrastructure (documents, data and applications) with web technologies such as Ajax, SaaS, and web applications.  As far as I know, there is only one company that can truly claim to do all these things and do them well.    

Document Advantage is a small start-up in the document and content management space.  It may seem like a very busy space right now with large vendors such as Documentum, Filenet and others taking all the leads and opportunities.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Recently, I had great conversations with the CEO and CTO of Document Advantage or DocuVantage as I call them, and a few of their customers.  What I found out is that many small companies and LOB are actually doing BPM, SOA and Web 2.0 better than some of the largest organizations.  I know this because, I’ve worked with thousands of enterprises in the past few years.   DocuVantage is an on-demand or SaaS solution for the enterprise LOB and the SMB that provides document management.  For many of the large vendors, SaaS or on-demand is only a dream or unrealistic.  However, the DocuVantage product truly delivers on its promise to be easy to use, quick to implement and it helps reduce IT costs.  Ok, enough of the marketing.  DocuVantage provides a BPM workflow tool for organizations (technical or not) to easily implement a new process or modify an existing process.  None of the major vendors in DM, ECM or BPM can claim to have a solution that gets organizations up and running in hours, not months.    Second, DocuVantage uses SOAP to take advantage of the services architectures such as SOA.  Finally, they have web 2.0 technologies in place for a complete, user friendly GUI.  Take all of that and deliver it as a SaaS solution and you have exactly what Enterprise Web 2.0 stands for.   

Unfortunately, their web site does not reflect all that I have stated above.   In fact, it was actually refreshing to see a company who is on the cutting edge of technology, NOT boast.  Delivery is everything – and they have it down.