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Reintroduce the Information Lifecycle to the Content Management Strategy

Content is exploding; ensure it is a firework and not a powder keg.

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Your Challenge

  • Understanding what content is valuable to the enterprise is increasingly difficult for IT.
  • What content should be managed and how to enhance information sharing is a complicated issue.
  • The tension between compliance and user access means that IT often manages a complex technical environment.
  • IT needs to provide the technical solution to control content growth or risk having a ticking time-bomb on its hands.

Our Advice

Critical Insight
  • Information movement (not content type) is the key to successful management.
  • Not all content is valuable; the enterprise as a whole must decide what is valuable.
  • Build a system that controls content movement securely.
Impact and Result
  • Slow the growth of enterprise content by defining personally important versus enterprise important content.
  • Increase user productivity by enforcing classification on important content.

Get to Action

  1. Understand the impact of new content types

    Design and define the organization's enterprise content management needs.

  2. Understand where the biggest risks are for an ECM

    Choose the technical requirements for the organization's ECM.

  3. Plan an ECM selection

    Ensure that the organization picks the application that meets its needs.

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Tags

document management, Electronic Document Management System, CMS, WCM, Web content management, content management system, Documentum, open text, OpenText, FileNet, records management, Electronic Records Management, ERM, EDM, electronic document management, retention, data retention, compliance, collaboration, productivity, SharePoint, content management, ediscovery, records, documents, business efficiency, data growth

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Content is exploding; ensure it is a firework and not a powder keg.

Companies Who Helped

  • Datatel
  • Encana
  • Corix
  • Cohen Highly Law Firm, LLP.
  • 77 Professionals contributed information that assisted with the development of this solution set.

Solution Road Map

Other Solution Sets in Content & Document Management

  1. Reintroduce the Information Lifecycle to the Content Management Strategy
    Content is exploding; ensure it is a firework and not a powder keg.
  2. Vendor Landscape: Enterprise Content Management for Process Workers
    Bring the processes to workers - wherever they are.
  3. Vendor Landscape: Enterprise Content Management for Knowledge Workers
    Choose the tools that enable appropriate content movement for your organization.
  4. Use SharePoint for Enterprise Content Management
    Findability, taxonomies, and records management: It’s more expensive than you think.
  5. Develop a SharePoint Governance Strategy
    Bring a Sheriff to the SharePoint Wild West
  6. Extend SharePoint to Overcome Key Challenges
    Third-party products for administration, content management, mobile, and social address common use-case challenges.
  7. Develop a Web Content Management Strategy
    Balance the needs of marketing and IT. Just don’t overbuy!
  8. Vendor Landscape: Web Content Management
    Give marketing the tools it needs but keep the control in IT.
  9. Vendor Landscape: Web Experience Management
    Give users experience… and then take their money.
  10. Find Information in the Enterprise
    Being able to do so, and do it well, is critical to the success of your business.
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