Make smart business decisions at the moment they matter most
IBM Enterprise Content Management
Leveraging information to maximize its business value
Make smart business decisions at the moment they matter most
IBM Enterprise Content Management
Between exploding volumes of
content, multiple content libraries
and growing regulatory compliance
requirements, analysts estimate that
corporate information volumes are
growing at 50 percent annually. To
further complicate the situation, up
to 80 percent of that information is
unstructured content1—scanned
images, e-mails, records, business
documents, XML files and forms. It is
also estimated that 90 percent of this
corporate content is unmanaged.
IBM Enterprise Content Management
(ECM) can help you address not only
these challenges, but also more impor-
tantly, how to cost-effectively leverage
this content to maximize its business
value throughout its lifecycle. To com-
pete effectively in a global marketplace,
businesses need to rapidly deliver
trusted information in context to people,
processes and applications.
Because content that is properly
leveraged can help improve organi-
zational effectiveness and productiv-
ity, IBM considers Business Process
Management (BPM) a critical compo-
nent of ECM. BPM facilitates how and
where content comes together, as well
as how it is leveraged and acted upon.
In this manner, content can become
“active” within a business process and
can drive the process from one step to
the next, thus combining information
with action. Therefore, active con-
tent combines content, process and
connectivity to optimize operational
efficiency, company productivity and
organizational responsiveness.
Regulatory compliance is another
element of a comprehensive approach
to ECM. Growing regulatory require-
ments are driving the need to manage
information appropriately throughout its
lifecycle. Once structured and unstruc-
tured information are under manage-
ment, automated retention policies and
advanced search and retr