Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is the technologies, tools, and methods used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver information, content, and documents related to organizational processes. While increasing pressure of industry and regulatory compliance is making ECM a necessity in many verticals, every company can benefit from the capabilities provided through an ECM Solution. In addition to managing compliance regulations, organizations can more easily collaborate on and reuse knowledge, automate processes around knowledge management, and better protect content and IP. DataLan’s ECM Solutions are based on Microsoft SharePoint™ technology and are integrated into the Microsoft Office System. Compared with stand-alone ECM solutions they are easy to configure, deploy, and manage, and most important, offer a shorter and simpler path to user acceptance and a faster ROI. Elements of an ECM solution can include:
- Document Management
- Centrally organize, store, and protect content
- Library Functions including check-in/out and versioning
- Collaborative Authoring
- Regulated and Compliant Document Management
- Electronic Signatures
- Automated Workflow
- Records Management
- Policy based record retention
- Audit trails
- Holding records under discovery
- Web Content Management
- Empower content owners to manage web content
- Templated systems for authoring content
- Manage multi-lingual websites
- Deliver web content to users
- Imaging
- Scanning, indexing paper documents
- Automate processing of these documents
- Archiving digital images of documents