Building Blocks

Enterprise Content Managment

Microsoft’s Enterprise Content Management – ECM - capabilities are built on their best-in-class Office and Sharepoint systems. ECM is defined as:

Document Management

Centrally organize, store and protect content

Library functions (check-in/out, version control)

Collaborative Authoring

Records Management

Policy-based retention of records

Audit trails

Hold records under discovery

Imaging

Scanning, indexing paper documents

Automate processing of these documents

Archiving digital images of documents

Web Content management

Template system for authoring content

Manage multi-lingual websites

Deliver web content to users

Small and mid-size businesses are faced with issues that are addressed by Microsoft’s ECM. Following are some of the reasons why companies are implementing Microsoft’s ECM.

Document management

Reusing information is difficult

Inability to protect sensitive information

Efficiency in collaborative authoring

Records management

Risk of non-compliance with regulations

Risk from improperly retaining content

Retaining records for business continuity

Imaging

Categorization of paper based info

Automation of high volume processes

Web Content management

Webmasters are a content bottleneck

Multiple site types increase mgmt. costs

Brand assets are improperly used