Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions manage all phases of the content lifecycle: creating, approving, publishing, searching, expiring and archiving.  Ideal solutions blend seamlessly into existing  business processes and offer rapid implementation and quick user adoption.  ECM is a platform from which  core content management  technologies – such as  document management, records management, collaboration management  and web content management  -- power multiple  line-of-business applications (such as portals, intranet, extranet and customer management system).

ECM systems are designed  to manage both structured  and unstructured content,  so that an organization can more effectively meet business goals (increase profit or improve the efficient use of budget), serve its customers (as a competitive advantage, or to improve responsiveness),  and protect itself  (against non-compliance, uncoordinated departments or turnover within the organization).

Solutions include:

DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

These systems control document from their creation through to long term-document management includes functions like:

• Check-in/check-out for checking stored information for consistency
• Version management to keep track of different version of the same information with their revision
• Search and navigation for finding information in structures like virtual files, folders and overviews

WEB CONTENT

This refers to the information presented on the internet and extranet or on portal whose delivery is controlled by access authorization and storage.  Web content management includes the following functions, among others:

• Creation of new or editing of existing information in a site
• Administration and incorporation of through social media management
• Delivery and of the information for the web presentation
• Visualization for internet presentation (browser, HTML, XML, etc.)