Enterprise Content Management
or commonly referred to as ECM
is a system used to capture, organize or manage content and documents
involved in the business process. ECM
manage content and documents in its entire life cycle, from creation,
delivery, revision, published, and then finally archived.
ECM can be
used at all levels of work (ranging from marketing, operation, human
resources, finance and strategic levels). Moreover, ECM also has some
helpful applications of the users dealing on an information.
Some of the most common features owned by the ECM system is:
content / document versioning, document workflow, full text search,
access rights, collaboration.
Several ECM
system that has been widely known: Alfresco (Open Source licensed),
SharePoint, Documentum, Open Text.