Document Imaging Bright Spot in a Winter of Economic Discontent?

Our document imaging blogging cohort Ralph Gammons noted recently that there are going to be a couple high profile attendees missing from the AIIM Conference in March.

Most notable among these absentees is Kodak, the giant that endured a steep decline in the fourth quarter of 2008, in terms of revenue and profits.

The AIIM conference has been an industry standard event for many years, the biggest of its kind. What does it say about this year if major players are skipping out?

It says, in short, that we're enduring a difficult time in our economy, and companies are cutting costs any way they can. It says, too, that document imaging products that are selling during the first half of 2009 would sell on Mars.

One document imaging-related product that seems to be holding up well is Microsoft SharePoint.
The product hit the $1 billion sales benchmark during 2008, and more and more affiliated products are being developed to work with SharePoint as a focal point.

Smart companies are using SharePoint, and using this slow time in the economy, to build content management systems that are going to be extremely useful when the economy recovers.