Enterprise Content Management

APU, like most organizations, can produce more data than can be turned into long-term knowledge. With so many means of producing ad-hoc unstructured data, whether it be Microsoft Office, Email or even web pages, it becomes apparent that a strategy is needed to store, search, retrieve, share, and archive content.

Welcome Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

The term ECM, does not represent just a product or a suite of products, nor simply a group of technologies. While ECM includes the aggregation of once disparate approaches to the information management (Document Management, Collaboration, Knowledge Management, Digital Asset Management, Web Content Management), the ECM concept represents more than simply the sum of their overlapping characteristics. It is the systematic re-thinking of the approach to the creation, management and distribution of all data stored outside of traditional integrated information systems (ERP, SIS etc.).

IMT's first quandry into a broader perspective of this area is covered in a whitepaper, Document Management - An APU Definition and Application. We are now revisiting this opportunity domain, please read on to ECM Defined.