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.
Our latest web content management technology research suggests that Big Blue is falling behind its major competitors in the Web CMS marketplace. To quote: IBM's Workplace Web Content Management (WWCM) product remains a generation behind, and it is conceivable that IBM may simply elect to acquire a WCM vendor to fill the gap. CMS Watch cautions that IBM WWCM customers may risk the kind of painful upgrade or even replacement of the kind endured by Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) licensees when Redmond rewrote that tool under SharePoint. Read more here.
Palm Beach Community College needed to improve student services and disaster recovery measures by transitioning from paper processes to electronic. They looked to Optical Image Technology and and its DocFinity suite for solutions. After evaluating and considering several EDM vendors through acompetitive bid process, PBCC chose Optical Image Technology,Inc. for the strength of its DocFinity software suite. because of the flexibility and robustness of the DocFinity workflow and document management tools. Submitted by Optical Image Technology
Interwoven has announced plans for tighter integration between it's Worksite DM and collaboration tool and the Microsoft stack, including MS Office and SharePoint. This makes good sense, and in fact, all the department-oriented DM players have been beating a door to Redmond. Microsoft, too, wants to argue that it is addressing records management and compliance, via partners. Just remember that partnership press releases doth not solid connector modules make. And don't assume that Interwoven's other major product -- Teamsite CMS, with it's own version of perl -- will suddenly start running better on Windows servers...