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Vendor Landscape: Enterprise Content Management for Knowledge Workers
Choose the tools that enable appropriate content movement for your organization.
Last Revised: November 2, 2012
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Your Challenge
- Enterprises must facilitate the sharing of documents within and between different departments. Sharing may have to occur across sites and time zones.
- Many struggle with lifecycle management of documents, including retention, access, and findability.
- For some, archiving or information governance principles must be applied to collections of documents. Approval workflows and document disposition are particularly important.
Our Advice
Critical Insight- Cloud content control is still a problem. The large vendors are building their own clouds to deal with the issue.
- Process generated content and knowledge derived content management systems are re-converging. Pay special attention to the workflow controls to stay ahead of this trend.
- System of engagement versus System of record is a clear differentiator in the products.
- Understand what’s new in the Content Management for Knowledge Workers (CMKW) market.
- Evaluate CMKW vendors and products for your enterprise needs using Info-Tech’s CMKW Vendor Landscape.
- Determine which products are most appropriate for your particular use case and scenario.
Get to Action
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Evaluate the leading content management solutions for knowledge workers
Understand the market and available options.
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Identify the CMKW solution that best meets your needs
Develop a shortlist to speed the selection process.
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Solution Road Map
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