Report Finds Primary Challenge Is Content Reuse

If you’re interested in XML publishing, check out XML in the Content Lifecycle Foundation Report Creating, Managing, Publishing, Syndicating, and Protecting Content with XML, a 57-page report from ZapThink.

Key findings include:

• The market for XML content lifecycle solutions is expected to grow from $1.8 billion in 2003 to over $11.6 billion by 2008
• Producers of content in the enterprise spend over 60% of their time locating, formatting, and structuring content and just 40% of their time actually creating it
• By 2008, about 60% of all content lifecycle products will be XML-enabled
• The primary challenge in the enterprise for producers of content—information that is intended for human consumption—is content reuse: the ability to integrate content from disparate sources
• Efforts to improve content processes have been slowed by efforts to extract and manipulate content from multiple, disparate data sources

Learn more about this report.