I was on a client site last week for a telecomms company who are looking for more information on how their ECM Strategy can move forward with SharePoint 2007 ("MOSS") as the user interface of choice.
The presentation I put together was focused on how in the market today ECM Vendors have only offered a small(ish) level of complexity regarding integration with MOSS, and how I believe organisations demand more.
As I was finishing putting the presentation together I finally got round to looking at Andrew Chapman's blog (http://nevertalkwhenyoucannod.com/2008/02/15/seven-reference-architecture-organizer.aspx) - the EMC Product Manager who is leading the strategic charge on the EMC (don't get mixed up with ECM now) Documentum specific integrations moving forward. He has named the 8 or 9 possible models of integrations "reference architectures" - and these were quickly put in to my slides.
His architectures are excellent (especially when you gradually introduce them and increase the levels of complexity to unsuspecting audience's) - and make organisations realise that there are still infrastructure/content/user experience issues with existing offerings. Once they are shown the final few architectures (and don't get me started on Enterprise Search), they realise that their required level of integration is inherintly complex - and hopefully understand why the ECM vendors are playing catch up....
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