As the digital age has facilitated communications, it has brought with it a greater wealth of “content” than ever, in a multitude of formats such as images, text documents, web pages, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, drawings, e-mail, video, and multimedia. This explosion of structured and unstructured content can be complex and difficult to manage, and the problem is growing rapidly.
Content Management (CM) helps organisations take control of their content, provide their users with rapid access to the information they need to help them do their jobs, and, in doing so, boost productivity, encourage collaboration and make information easier to share.
Some of the reasons and benefits of Content Management:
Regulatory requirements
Legislations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, have moved CM from being a nice-to-have system to being a must-have system. Enforceable document retention policies, systems for managing unstructured information, and consistent records management are all key requirements from a legislative standpoint.
Operational efficiency
Effective management and control of an abundant volume of records and documents, with the resulting benefit of reducing task duplication and minimising time spent wasted looking for old documents (or worse, re-creating documents from scratch).
An ECM initiative can improve the efficiency with which people create, maintain and use data. This is achieved through cost savings through the reduction in the time required to find relevant content, reduction in document creation through the use of templates, publication and workflow benefits.
Automate business processes
There is an increasing need to automate business processes in order to facilitate content handling and replace existing manual paper processing, which ultimately results in streamlining workloads and creating greater throughput.
Publishing and sharing of relevant content
The right Content Management solution can help with the process of authoring and publishing all types of information to the intranet, extranet, and Internet without burdening the IT department.
HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?
Having delivered 100s of successful information management projects across industry sectors, we offer comprehensive solutions for all aspects of content management These include document management, document collaboration, web content management, digital asset management, records management, imaging and enterprise content integration.
Our team of consultants and technical specialists have the proven skills to help you harness data that exists across disparate systems , transform that data into knowledge and present it in engaging ways to enable effective information sharing at all levels in your organisation.