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.
Enterprise level applications are not cheap. In particular,
enterprise content management systems can send an organization's budget
plans through the roof. Unless, of course, you are implementing an open
source enterprise cms. So the story goes. According to open source enterprise cms provider Alfresco, they are the alternative with a scalable, easy to use platform at a fraction of the price.We read their Total Cost of Ownership for Enterprise Content Management
whitepaper. The whitepaper walks you through the licensing and hardware
costs associated with several propertiery ECMs and shows how clearly
open source is the more inexpensive option.
Here’s a song you’re probably familiar with: What do companies need?
To save money. What else do they need? To increase efficiency. How
these things are usually achieved? Through collaboration. We sing it
here at CMSWire on almost a daily basis, and the latest to join in on our tune are Enterprise CMS provider SpringCM and Kodak.
The two companies are now working together to provide a SaaS
platform that enables rapid digitization and remote, subscription-based
access to information. Through both faster processing time and lower
ownership costs, an increase in productivity for less money is surely
on the horizon.