Document management technologies

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.

British companies CogniDox and Flax reckon the typical user gets over 1.5 GB of data in a day, including documents and streamed content, and thinks that repository search is the answer. Looking for a Needle in a Document Haystack?The two companies have taken different approaches to the problem of information overload and are combining their technologies to create a hybrid solution.CogniDox offers document management and control software to small companies all the way up to the enterprise. Using a browser and supporting all major file formats, it provides document approval processes to help get work accurately completed and published. Content can then by found later by searching within the body of a document or in metadata.