What Is Enterprise Content Management (ECM)?

Enterprise Content Management is the collection of strategies, methods, and tools used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM systems use a repository, a number of different applications, and application development platforms to enable this control, access, and delivery of content. Content can be any unstructured information, such as documents, Web pages, images, video, records, or simple files.

Different aspects of ECM

➤ Document management tends to deal with the capture, editing, and distribution of office documents and files.

➤ Web content management organizes an enterprise’s Web site, Web pages, and Web publishing processes.

➤ Records management deals with the long-term archival or disposal of important documents and records as well as any compliance or regulatory action.

➤ Image management may deal with documents or records, but handles content in the form of scanned images. Image management manages the process of scanning, quality control, metadata capture, and storage.

➤ Digital asset management is used primarily by creative and marketing professionals to handle the capture, creation, and editing of photos, videos, and illustrations.