Enterprise Content Management

Enterprise Content Management is the total solution for the administration of all information (content) in your entire organization. This information exists in many different formats: Text documents, technical drawings, XML-files, visual material, PDF-files, etc. With Enterprise Content Management, your organization is in a position to not only manage all of this information, but to enrich the information itself through additional classifications and hierarchies. With such mechanisms it is much easier to find and retrieve your information.

Read more about Enterprise Content Management and our services in the ECM Brochure or our Service Offerings:

• ECM Quickscan
• ECM Strategy development
• ECM Migration 

From creation to the final archiving

The total administration process from initial creation of the content until the final archiving or changing of information (the Content Lifecycle) can be driven from an Enterprise Content Management solution. This management process provides extensive workflow possibilities to create, adapt, revise and provide content in a controlled, and defined manner.

The management of relationships between various (parts) of content is essential. Especially maintaining the availability of meaningful relationships between content regardless of the different lifecycles of that content.

Most importantly, these relationships can automatically be formed - for example, based upon the enriched structure of the content provided by Enterprise Content Manager solution. This enrichment also gives organizations control of the availability of content, with the ultimate goal of making content available for more than one purpose. Through the utilization of Enterprise Content Management, content can be unlocked for many different channels of media without manual intervention.

Since the advent of the Internet, much thought has been given to the control and storage of the publication process of text and images on the internet sites. The experience thus far is that it is invaluable for organizations to keep information streams inside their own organization. It doesn’t matter if the current design is an intranet, an email procedure, or a document management system, the added value of accessible and manageable documentation is critical for almost every organization.

Furthermore, the importance of new laws like Sarbanse/Oxly makes the management and controlled release of documents to other organizations even more important.

Gertjan Blom
Managing Consultant ECM