ECM (Enterprise content management ) - is a set of technologies used to capture, store, preserve and deliver content and documents and content related to organizational processes. ECM tools allow the management of an organization's unstructured information, wherever that information exists.
ECM employed the technologies and strategies of content management to address business process issues, such as records and auditing, knowledge sharing, personalization and standardization of content, and so on.
They were named a Hot Company to Watch by Forrester Research; KMWorld plugged them into their Top 100
list for the third consecutive year; they’ve taken Software as a
Service (SaaS) to all new heights. No doubt, SpringCM is flyin’ high.But
let’s call them back down to the ground for a second so we can review
their 5.1 release. Accompanying the updated platform are new
Departmental Solutions that may strike your fancy as well.
Collaborate, Automate, WinAfter
taking user feedback into serious consideration, the SpringCM 5.1 team
has released a version that focuses heavily on collaboration between
SprimgCM customers, partners and their product team.
Enterprise content management (ECM) is becoming increasingly
"socialized," with more Web 2.0 functions being incorporated into it."We
are seeing a refocusing on collaboration through the intersection of
content and social media," says Leonor Ciarlone, senior analyst at Gilbane.
"Content management infrastructure provides the core environment to
make collaboration information-centric and is now adding blogs, ratings
and other social media."R.V. Anderson Associates
(RVA) is a consulting engineering firm with more than 200 employees and
a broad range of projects oriented around multidisciplinary
engineering. Serving primarily eastern Canada and India, its offices
are geographically dispersed. Information resources were similarly
scattered across different sections of the company, and were not easy
to find when needed. Also, a number of senior associates were planning
to retire, and RVA did not want to lose track of the intellectual
capital those staff members had contributed.
The ECM space is broad and varied and encompasses everything from documentimaging, to web content management to collaboration technologies to digital asset management. Submitted by XyEnterprise
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Document collaboration is something companies do every day, albeit not in the most effective ways. Think of the documents you've passed to and received from members of your team and other departments, or e-mails you've sent to and received from colleagues in other locations, asking for feedback. These methods provide you with the input you need, but not in an organized, cohesive manner. Document collaboration systems, as part of an ECM system, can provide this cohesion for you. Used with permission from Integrated Solutions magazine