SaaS (Software as a Service) ECM vendor iUpload last week released its Enterprise Blogging Suite, which combines blogging, wiki, and ECM tools with functions such as security, workflow, compliance, and app integration.

The service also includes iUpload Express, which provides an implementation road map and best practices designed to get newbies up and running quickly with blogging technologies. Along with these helper tools, iUpload Express delivers the baseline functionality of the iUpload Enterprise Blogging Suite, with multiple blogs, wikis, discussions, aggregated, group views of blogs, and visitor submissions.

Also included in iUpload's Enterprise Blogging Suite is CRM integration, customizable approvals, content reusability, granular security and permissions, and versioning and compliance reporting.

Today's ECM systems manage an increasing number of media types, such as e-mail messages, IM, and scanned images, according to Maurene Caplan Grey, founder and principal analyst at Grey Consulting.

With the addition of blogs and wikis to the menu, ECM products and services are "following the natural maturation that needs to occur for a market to morph so as to remain viable," she said. "Blogs and wikis are merely two more types of media that hold content."