{"id":1576,"date":"2011-12-02T11:52:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T11:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/enterprise-content-management\/"},"modified":"2019-06-11T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T15:11:26","slug":"enterprise-content-management","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/1015\/enterprise-content-management-ecm","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Content Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_enterprise_content_management_mean\">What Does Enterprise Content Management Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is an organizational process methodology designed for complete content life cycle management. ECM content includes documents, graphics, email and video.<\/p>\n<p>ECM is derived from electronic document management systems (EDMS) used during the late 1980s to early 1990s for smaller scale imaging and work flow. Today, ECM solutions employ a single software package that encompasses multiple enterprise divisions, including accounting, customer service and human resources (HR).<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_enterprise_content_management\">Techopedia Explains Enterprise Content Management<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>ECM encompasses multiple management types, including Web content\/document\/digital asset and work flow management. ECM also provides data discovery and manipulation capabilities through search, collaboration, capture and scanning.<\/p>\n<p>Originally geared toward business-to-employee (B2E) systems, ECM now provides solutions to business-to-business (B2B), business-to-government (B2G), government-to-business (G2B) and other market segments.<\/p>\n<p>The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) defines five ECM components, as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Capture<\/li>\n<li>Manage<\/li>\n<li>Store<\/li>\n<li>Preserve<\/li>\n<li>Deliver<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The three software application sources of ECM are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Locally installed software available through a local area network (LAN)<\/li>\n<li>Software as a Service (SaaS)<\/li>\n<li>Hybrid of locally installed SaaS and other software solutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Key ECM benefits include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More efficient and cost-effective document management and control to drive enterprise adoption<\/li>\n<li>Ensured integrated compliance with government and industry regulations<\/li>\n<li>Security functions that filter sensitive data masked with redaction features, facilitating document sharing without compromising individual identities or other sensitive data<\/li>\n<li>Reduced costs through decreased storage space, supply resources and postal requirements<\/li>\n<li>Reduced IT resources via SaaS solutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Does Enterprise Content Management Mean? 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