One of the stake results from the increase of this dematerialized information. The total cost of storage of these contents is growing and it is necessary to respect all the laws and regulations of archiving, as a consequence it becomes essential to focus on archiving processes.
Other challenge for ECM, is the growing need for collaboration and communication, doing business has become more complex since the globalisation. Firms need to tackle different markets in different countries and their teams are often far from each other, more over, they have to comply with the rise of complexity of the tools they use.
More than ever, every company/organisation has to deal with a growing amount of informations comming from inside and outside.
The challenge is to manage all those informations and documents in a efficient way as they can take several form. It can be paper documents such as invoice, drawing, order form, employment application...but it can be MP3, JPG, e-mails, electronic invoice...
ECM (Enterprise Content Management) lead to a significant improvment in the way of managing this mass of informations and documents.
Processing these heterogeneous informations is essential, as an information is born, is living and dies and during all its lifecycle it is important to retrieve it and process it at each time.
