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Current Filter: Document>>>>>Opinion> Serving the next generation of ECM users Editorial Type: Date: 01-2016 Views: 1991 Key Topics: Document BYOD Mobile Cloud Strategy Collaboration Key Companies: M-Files AIIM Key Products: Key Industries: | |||
| Delivering 'content in context' will be key for ECM businesses as a variety of factors continue to impact the market, suggests Julian Cook, Director of UK Business, M-Files The continued explosion of digital content, the mainstreaming of 'millennials' in the workplace, and the emergence of the extended enterprise are all considerable factors that will drive the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market in 2016. Over the past decade the ECM market has experienced strong growth largely driven by organisations continuing to transition away from paper-based document management practices, striving to automate manual-based processes and replacing existing information management systems that have proven to be complex and difficult to use. Instead they are turning to enterprise information management solutions to eliminate content chaos and information silos, while enabling fast and easy access to the right documents and other information from any core business system and device. The increasing prevalence of Shadow IT and BYOD has grown out of necessity, as younger and increasingly tech-savvy employees seek to leverage their own devices and solutions to get their work done faster and more efficiently. Not only is this putting a strain on the traditional IT department, which is increasingly being asked to support business applications across a variety of new mobile platforms, but legacy ECM solutions are failing to address a number of key issues in the market today. The problem is that they are trapped in software architectures from an earlier, more homogenous age with platforms generally not built for the cloud and offering only limited mobile support. In light of these challenges, more organisations are realising the need to provide easy-to-use tools for their employees to access and manage information. Emerging vendors are delivering on this need in innovative ways in order to address the information management issues, challenges and trends in 2016 and beyond. Some of the key challenges facing the industry include:
THE DIGITAL EXPLOSION An organisation's documents are often strewn all over the place - in filing cabinets, in network file folders, in emails, in file sharing and sync applications and in various business systems. As a result, employees waste enormous amounts of time every day searching for the information they need. By quickly eliminating content chaos by providing an easy-to-use solution users can quickly locate the exact content they need, regardless of which business application it resides in.
RISE OF THE MILLENNIAL
EMERGENCE OF THE EXTENDED ENTERPRISE The next generation of solutions needs to drive productivity, and enable information workers from different organisations to collaborate and securely share content. The extended enterprise requires a new approach to ECM that supports easy, controlled sharing of content and process inside and outside the organisation.
CLOUD, ON-PREMISE OR HYBRID?
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