Document Conversion & Management
Resources
What is ECM?
From ECM
Association (AIIM)
 Enterprise
Content Management (ECM) is the technologies, tools, and
methods used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and
deliver content across an enterprise. ECM tools and
strategies allow the management of an organization's
unstructured information, wherever that information exists.
Numerous terms are used, depending on whom you're talking
to, nearly interchangeably with ECM-integrated document
management, digital asset management, integrated document
and content management, and total content management to name
a few. Regardless of the precise terminology, ECM
capabilities manage traditional content types (images,
office documents, graphics, drawings, and print streams) as
well as the new electronic objects (Web pages and content,
email, video, and rich media assets) throughout the
lifecycle of that content.
As with any technology, the most important thing isn't how
you define it or categorize it, but successfully applying
the technology to your particular business processes.
Implementing all of these new technologies together will
allow you to manage content throughout its complete
lifecycle-from creation to either long-term preservation or
deletion. |
