ECM Key Players - Xythos

Xythos Software

Xythos Software, a Blackboard company, has long focused on collaborative content management, principally for higher education. Xythos's standards-based Enterprise Document Management Suite (EDMS) features ease of use, integration with Outlook, and on-premises or SaaS delivery. Improved solutions development around imaging, workflow automation and records management is bringing Xythos's professional services and partners into focus.

Website: www.xythos.com/products/enterprise_document_management_suite.html

Strengths

• Xythos has a strong installed base and value proposition for the higher education sector.
• Xythos's EDMS continues to evolve, serving as an improved platform for solutions development.
• Blackboard/Xythos's partner program is cultivating relationships beyond its core installed base.

Cautions

• Xythos's footprint beyond the higher education market remains small.
• The number of extended vertical-market applications delivered by partners is few. Even in its core market, Xythos is not presenting a catalog of solutions.
• Xythos's EDMS needs immediate promotion as an independent product and much more traction with international resellers and integrators.