Gartner Market Guide for Content Services Platforms
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Start here to understand the basics and benefits of enterprise content management.
Enterprise content management (ECM) — sometimes referred to as document management or records management — is the process of managing the entire life cycle of an organization’s content, including documents, spreadsheets, contracts and scanned images. The goal of an ECM solution is to reduce risk and improve productivity, efficiency and customer experience by eliminating paper-based tasks and enhancing process visibility.
Enterprise content management is an umbrella term for the technology, strategy and method used to capture, manage, access, integrate, measure and store information.
The value of today's ECM solution goes beyond simple scan, store and retrieve solutions to encompass all the platform's capabilities and strengths.
Traditionally, ECM was primarily comprised of transactional content management, a system of record for managing process-related documents. But transactional content management, often associated with business processes that help drive actions and decisions, is just part of ECM and another term under its umbrella.
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First-generation enterprise content management solutions no longer fully reflect the way users create, use and interact with information, which is why the term has evolved into content services. A successful content services approach helps you tackle changes in technology and the way we work, and combats information silos by delivering the right information to the right people at the right time.
So what are the benefits?
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The right platform enables you to build unlimited tailored solutions that integrate and work with your core applications and systems. The features to look out for can be categorized into nine main functions.
This is the critical starting point of your content management journey. Capture documents — even in structured and unstructured formats — and automatically and intelligently extract, classify and validate information before seamlessly integrating it with core business applications.
Get a complete view of your processes. Automated content management simplifies access to the files you need so your team can make faster, better-informed decisions.
Streamline critical processes. Automate repeatable tasks, route documents, manage exceptions and extend key processes using configurable workflow tools and built-in rules and actions that are easily customizable without IT support.
Get full visibility into an entire case from start to end. Staff gets a 360-degree view of all the information they need for effective case management and enhanced customer service.
Improve customer communications with content management integrations. Create individually personalized content and handle a wide range of communication needs to meet customer expectations.
Share content, collaborate on documents and extend related processes to your users — whether internally or externally — in a secure environment.
Discover, analyze and reimagine reporting and analytics. Gain visibility into your content and processes in real-time with interactive dashboards and audit trails of all activities.
Find the content you need no matter where it resides. Intelligent query tools let you search through repositories, sites, email systems, intranets and more from a single platform.
Meet regulatory and compliance standards. Configure automated rules and workflows for easily overlooked tasks like approvals, storage, archival and deletion.
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Hyland’s migration structure is designed to minimize downtime and interruption to your organization's processes regardless of the complexity of your solution.
Managing your assets in the cloud keeps you well positioned to meet the growing demands for content.
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