In order to leverage the value and provide ready access to information, it is essential to regulate the Complete Information lifecycle. Enterprise content management (ECM) is a formalized means of organizing and storing an organization’s documents, and other content, that relate to the organization’s processes. The term encompasses strategies, methods, and tools used throughout the lifecycle of the content. Collaboration & Business Process Management forms and integral part of the whole ECM delivery.
It helps to control the entire process of document management within an organization. It is designed to operate with ease for processing large volumes of documents. It gives access to these documents in a controlled manner to the different users and groups of the documents. It supports a configurable flow of documents that maps with the different business processes that exist in an organization. The large number of benefits in comparison with manual paper based processes and systems, give compelling reasons for implementation of the ECM.