Enterprise Content Management Offerings
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.
Doubt anyone is bored at the IBM Information on Demand Conference. Yesterday at the conference IBM announced a new agile ECM portfolio
— we got dizzy just reviewing the enhancements, trying to keep them all
straight. The new portfolio takes on a new format bringing together
content, process and compliance capabilities in a neat little composite
application framework.
The new ECM portfolio is, again, the continuing saga of IBM’s vision of InformationOnDemand.
For CaroMont Health, an independent, 435-bed, not-for-profit healthcare system, offering healthcare services to patients is easy. Grappling with the documents pertaining to these patients is a far more difficult task. CaroMont sought an enterprise content management (ECM) solution that would provide a centralized electronic document repository from which employees could quickly retrieve documents of all types. Submitted by KeyMark, Inc.
Sometimes, destruction can be creative. Such was the case when Macromedia decided to discontinue the former Allaire CM product, Spectra, and put the code into "community source" for any other firm to play with. This begat a bonanza of ColdFusion-based, branded product offerings from regional integrators around the world. But the following e-mail that recently crossed our in-box from an integrator in Iowa, USA may be indicative of the tough times for services companies who took that approach: "[We] thought you might be interested in a new Enterprise Content Management System that we have developed in ColdFusion. This software is available for acquisition..." Visit Macromedia and note all the Sitespring banner ads
The first part of this article, published in the March issue of KMWorld, focused on how regulatory compliance issues, loosened IT purse strings and the health of the broader enterprise content management market are combining to create the perfect environment for e-mail and messaging management(EMM) vendors.Part 1 also included a review of the products and services of some leading players in the EMM market, including Captaris, ClearStory Systems, Critical Technologies, EMC, FileNet and Hummingbird. Part 2 continues that review, with a sampling of the offerings of seven more vendors.IBM
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