Despite being an integral part of every business, enterprise content management (ECM) has gone under-noticed for a long period of its evolution. However, with companies realizing the importance of professionalism, enriched customer experiences, and service delivery, knowledge management is emerging as a key asset. ECM delivers capabilities that far out-reach any conventional business intelligence system. A good ECM will handle semi-structured data, facilitate enhance collaboration, and it will simplify workflow & document queue management. With ad hoc work groups fully supported and complete knowledge management made easy, business intelligence has expanded.
ECM has reached unparalleled adoption rates due to the emergence of the following information technology trends:
- The enterprise goal obtain the full potential of semi-structured and unstructured data sources value in operational and predictive analysis using business information system resources
- A growing demand for agile, actionable overviews available to the entire enterprise – portals need to report to all departments, delivering alerts and warnings timeously
- Ad hoc and structured collaboration need to share a singular enterprise portal view
- Accurate, reality-based views of company organization, financial reporting, product positions, customer satisfaction, and both internal and external relationships with staff, customers, suppliers, and partners are recognized as essential
Enterprise content management and the world of business information overlap, working synergistically and sharing many of the same information delivery systems. Many business information vendors provide facilities for unstructured and semi-structured data through all forms of information capturing from data mining to semantic text analytics. More and more vendors are beginning to realize the immense value of enterprise content management software. Performance metrics and analytics, as well as score carding and business activity monitoring, are all streamlines into a singular, intuitive interface. Dashboards and portals share the same means of presentation for every section of your staff and business.
Unified Reporting
Lead enterprise content management systems unify all reporting and information into a singular profile giving a complete view of customers and internal operations. A good ECM will give you so much more than basic profile management. Here are some of the types of technology which have been integrated into today’s top content management systems:
- Online content management governing the production and information delivery of websites, social profiles, and internal networking communication.
- Total management of digital assets including but not limited to audio, video, and all other multimedia and design content libraries.
- Record management for the entire enterprise including full regulatory compliance with backup and archiving of data.
- Knowledge management tools which assist collaboration and user management while delivering a total toolset for finding, sharing, editing and communicating.
- Document management for your enterprise which facilitates multiple user roles, collaboration, and process management for the creation and delegation of documents.
Data-Driven Instant Access to Business Information
The demand for business information which empowers data-driven decision making is causing pioneering changes in enterprise content management. Software and systems are focused on packing as much actionable information into displays and reporting as possible while data is harvested on aspects as far reaching as website behavior and the potential for problems within internal workflows.
Enterprise content management and business information are soon to be synonymous as the information services at an enterprise level shape the future of the way we interact and grow from our interactions. will change the way that you do business, supplying on-demand information and practical tools to the entire workforce.
Sherry Edwards
Coming from a background in service-orientated computing, I’m always looking for ways to lessen the load on managers and employees alike. Ex-analyst, system designer and once-technician, may my expertise help lead you to an understanding of the integral function which BPM’Online Enterprise CRM applications can play in your business. Let my hours of troubleshooting and pipeline management lessen the load on your shoulders, allowing your business to grow to its full potential.