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WCM vs. ECM--what's right for your organization?

Publication: KMWorld
Publication Date: 01-MAR-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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This may be the year that Enterprise Content Management (ECM) finally becomes a reality. It's certainly been promoted by major industry analysts, who have been forecasting a time when there will be all-encompassing solutions to manage all types of unstructured content, including documents, on...

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...records, audio/video and more.

Before jumping the ECM bandwagon, it is important to understand what ECM really means in the context of your organization's needs. I'd suggest that in many cases, instead of an expensive ECM system, what you really need is much simpler, affordable and agile: Web content management (WCM). Here's why:

First, despite the claims of some vendors, ECM systems are often not a unified platform, but rather a collection of applications that can talk to one another. Creating a common architecture and platform...

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