By S.Suren
In this article I thought I’ll discuss on the concept of Content Management and how ERP Vendors are looking to add this to their solution offering. The term they give for it is “Enterprise Content Management Solution”.
Every business has data, for which they need a database to hold it in, a network to share it among the organization and a software to make sense of it all. Just like that, the organization would also want to keep track of the legal paperwork involved in the business transaction, and to do this we need to link document contents to business context and this is where content management solutions comes into the picture.
There are many Content Management Solution out there, that cater specifically to this requirement of managing contents within the organization in the most efficient and effective manner, and most of these solution providers are already working with large ERP vendors in order to build the solution into the ERP itself. A good example of this would where OPENTEXT (ECM Vendor) has partnered up with SAP to provide an integrated solution. SAP will offer for resale the Open Text Extended ECM for SAP under the name of "SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management".
Just like this there are many other ERP Vendors also working with ECM Vendors to come up with integrated solutions.
Listed below are a few benefits that a Content Management Solution could bring to an organization:
• Track business process with information contained in the content
• Better informed decision making due to the available of important documents shared company wide
• Centralized visibility – Get a consolidated view of all information relevant to a transaction on one screen
• Improve operation’s efficiency and productivity
• A complete view of documents involved in a particular business context
• Extract relevant information from the integrated solutions working with the ECM solution
• Reduction in maintenance and invisible costs associated with keeping track of manual documents
• Improve service delivery by integrating disparate systems and processes to increase speed-to-market
• Capture your organization’s ideas, experience and knowledge that drive best practices—from inception to archiving to retrieval—for sustained, steady growth
• Integration with the existing environment – Implement the application quickly with the assurance of linkage with all relevant data and functionality in your existing software
These are just few of the benefits that a company can achieve with Content Management solutions. Hope you found this post informative.
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