Document imaging involves converting paper documents into electronic images. These images need further processing to make them into true electronic documents. This is because any text in the image, while readable by humans, is not readable as text ch Continue...

In recent years, numerous pre-built open source content management systems have emerged as viable alternatives to costly proprietary products or custom-built solutions.

Simple-to-install, easy-to-use alternative, convenience, scalability an Continue...

Why is a report so important? And how does reporting change under Enterprise Content Management systems? This article explores these issues.Reports Lead to Informed Decisions and ActionsIn an earlier age, it was poss Continue...

Content is useless unless it’s used for managing the business. Managers must get relevant information presented in ways that bring out its significance. Only then can they make informed business decisions, instead of decisions based on a "hunch" Continue...

Visualize the following scenario: All enterprise content (wherever generated by whatever entity) goes into a single repository and users can receive different services (that they were receiving from different applications earlier, or are completel Continue...

Enterprise Content Management uses Internet technologies to make information accessible from all over the world. In an age of global business, this enables employees spread across the globe to maintain effective contacts with their headquarters an Continue...

Traditionally, the focus of information systems was on capture of data, processing it in standard ways, and distributing standard reports to managers. The emerging focus of Enterprise Content Management systems is to see the information as enterpr Continue...

What is content? What does content management involve? And what is special about enterprise content management? This introductory article will seek to answer these questions.In today's context, content means digital information. This i Continue...

The word Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP conveys a sense of planning the use of enterprise-wide resources to achieve enterprise objectives in the best possible manner. However, ERP has come to mean something much less ambitious. It simply mean Continue...

Along with Content Storage, Preservation, and Delivery, Capture is one of the key components of Enterprise Content Management. This article will explore the ways content is captured in ECM systems.Capture typically consists of acquirin Continue...

The term "storage" means temporary storage while the term "preservation" means long-term storage. Both may use the same kinds of media to store the content, though long-term storage often uses read-only media.In addition to repositorie Continue...

Enterprise Content Management involves capturing structured and unstructured content that’s generated all over the enterprise, storing that content, processing it into information, delivering that information to those who need it for decision-su Continue...

Corporate web portals serve as a single interface to work with varied content and different applications. Both employees and outside entities like suppliers, customers, and the government can use the corporate portal to get information, contribute Continue...

The ECM Association ,AIIM, defines ECM as: "...the technologies used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM tools and strategies allow the management of an organization's uns Continue...

A workflow is a sequence of activities that achieve some defined purpose. The purpose can be transforming raw materials into a finished product, or provision of some kind of service, or just processing data into meaningful information. The purpose Continue...