Managing Content in the Cloud

Chapter Overview and TOC

Discover how your organization can use ECM 2.0 to optimize the flow of content to improve productivity, mitigate risk and increase agility.

Chapter 11: Business Process Management

Business Process Management (BPM) combines engagement, transaction and lifecycle technologies used in ECM suite to improve efficiencies, shorten cycles, lower costs, and increase product and service quality. This chapter describes BPM; what it is and how it fits into the ECM equation. To demonstrate effective BPM, we profile companies in different industries who are effectively managing processes to run their business more efficiently, achieve compliance and reduce costs.

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Chapter 12: Enterprise Ecosystem-Enterprise Applications

The enterprise ecosystem combines business content (for example, documents) with business context (transactional date in ERP and CRM systems), enabling organizations to extract the maximum value from content stored in Enterprise Applications. This chapter explains the business benefits experienced when an organization integrates ERP-based numerical information with a comprehensive ECM system. Sample applications and user stories are used to illustrate these benefits.

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Chapter 13: Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing has been championed as the next revolutionary stage in information technology. In the near future the majority of computing activities will not take place on PCs at home or in the office, but instead, will occur in the "cloud". Many of us spend time in the cloud on a daily basis without even realizing it. Web-based e-mail services, social networking sites, photo and video services and online applications are all services that run on a cloud computing component, and can be accessed through browsers, smartphones or other client devices.

But what exactly is the cloud? And what are the implications of working in the cloud? This chapter offers a broad definition of the term and examines both opportunities presented and barriers to adoption for the enterprise as it embraces the cloud to manage content, collaborate and drive processes.

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Table of Contents

1. The Business Needs
2. ECM Technology
3. Compliance
4. Information Discovery
5. Content Lifecycle Management
6. Email Management
7. Web Content Management
8. Collaboration E2.0
9. Social Media
10. Digital Media
11. Business Process Management
12. Enterprise Ecosystem: Enterprise Applications
13. The Cloud
14. Mobility
15. Enterprise Adoption
16. ECM & The Future