Enterprise ECM MISAGH: What is an Enterprise Content Management System (ECM)

Every thing that you come in your day-to-day activities can be regarded as content. Whether it’s the mail you receive, or the documents that you handle as a part of your day-to-day job or the press releases you make on launch of a new product everything can be termed as being Enterprise Content. Today, enterprise CMS system perform many roles:

Enterprise Content Management: The Components of an ECM

Document imaging (DI): In this scenario the ECM is used for for scanning, indexing, retrieving, and archiving digital images of text, graphics, and all other types of documents.

Web content management (WCM): This component enables the maintenance of website content. It includes creating, collecting, staging, maintenance, and delivery of text and graphic content primarily for disseminating information via the Web.

Electronic document management (EDM): Software that manages the complete life cycle of office documents from collaborative authoring to archiving; key features include indexing, check-in/checkout, versioning, annotations, workflow, and life cycle management.

Digital asset management (DAM): Software for managing the life cycle of large collections of digital assets, such as photographic images, graphics, brand logos, and compound documents. Records management: Applications that manage long-term document archives throughout the document life cycle.
Email Archiving: This component enables to archive all the enterprise emails and for compliance purposes and enables to search through all the archived mails.

Features that you must look for in an ECM
For successful implementations of any ECM it must support the following features API (preferably in more than one language) that the content repository can be accessed through multiple interfaces Easy Integration with other enterprise wide systems like the Mail Server, ERP and CMS Auditing Role Based Security Rights Based Publishing Workflow and Ability to Create Custom Workflows Enterprise Search Facilities Desktop Access to allow repository access without the use of browser.