IBM strengthened its Big Data portfolio with yesterday’s announcement of IBM Navigator on Cloud, an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system that is the latest in a line of Big Data and Analytics services that IBM is taking to the cloud.

Built on Softlayer’s cloud platform and now available on the IBM Cloud marketplace, IBM Navigator on Cloud is touted as an ECM solution that unites knowledge workers through content sharing According to a recent IDC report, the worldwide ECM market grew 8.6 percent in 2013 to a $5.1 billion. 

“Knowledge workers will have the ability to manage and synchronize content across mobile, cloud, and desktops,” Paul Fitzpatrick, Worldwide Marketing Leader for IBM’s Enterprise Content Management, told SiliconANGLE. “[They] can collaborate with internal and external teams through team spaces, review and approval workflows, and check-in/check-out for version management.”

Big Data moving from on-premise to cloud

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Big Data market growth will slow its torrid pace slightly in 2014 to 53 percent, reaching $28.5 billion, according to the Big Data Vendor Revenue and Market Forecast 2013-2017 report by Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly.  The report forecasts the market to top $50 billion in 2017.

Wikibon expects Big Data applications and cloud-based services to play an increasingly important role as the market expands. “As the underlying infrastructure solidifies, Wikibon believes mainstream and late-adopters will look to service providers to deliver polished applications and services that sit on top the hardened Big Data infrastructure and target specific, high-value business challenges,” the report says. The addition of social media, Internet of Things (IoT) and other online sources to Big Data analysis will also help drive that transition.

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