Businesses today need to deliver trusted information in context to people, processes and applications. They need to cost-effectively manage that critical information. Perhaps most importantly, they need to leverage information to maximize its business value throughout its lifecycle. These requirements have rolled together over the past decade to create a new world of corporate technology, commonly called Enterprise Content Management (ECM).
Built to support all phases of information lifecycle management, an ECM infrastructure solution from IBM includes components that help reduce costs and increase productivity and efficiency.
This white paper explains how to transform your enterprise information into business value.
For many companies, the idea of ECM has become painfully familiar. Organizations worldwide are facing business challenges that highlight the need for better management of information across the enterprise, including:
- Data overload
- Legal compliance and busines process requirements
- Legacy infrastructure and data inaccessibility
- Content diversity
- User resistance
- Inability to use data productively
