What factors are driving the need for effective Enterprise Content Management (ECM) strategies for organisations today?
Paul Thompson. Enterprise Content Management (ECM) offers the capabilities to efficiently and effectively manage the challenges imposed by the demanding business requirements of the modern world. Availability of information, agility of business process, interoperability of diverse business functions and conformity to legal requirements are a few of the critical success factors for enterprises to survive in the modern and competing global market space. Enterprises, while striving to achieve these critical success factors, are further exposed to the complexity of massive volumes of variant data and information, which exists in a broad array of formats. Complex and extended business processes spanning across the business functions and partners around the globe, need integration and interoperability, and fulfilment of compliance to legal and regulatory requirements. Luciano Balzarini. In times of downturn and shrinking budgets, companies try to find the right combination between cost conta