Enterprise Content Management

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) helps companies overcome the challenges posed by large volumes of unmanaged content. SharePoint extends content management to every employee in the company, via integration with familiar tools such as Microsoft Office. This ECM solution allows you to manage the entire life cycle of content - from creation, to editing and collaboration, to expiration - on a single unified platform. This allows you to achieve the following goals:

Manage diverse content: The Document Management capabilities in SharePoint help you consolidate diverse content from multiple locations into a centrally managed repository with consistent categorisation. Search capabilities help people find, share, and use this information. Content can also be protected from unauthorised access, and collaboration tools (such as workflow) help people work better together to create, review and approve documents in a structured way.

Satisfy compliance and legal requirements: The Records Management capabilities in SharePoint enable companies to store and protect business records, and to apply expiration policies to records to ensure they are retained for the appropriate time period to comply with regulations or corporate business policies. Audit trails provide proof to internal and external auditors that records were retained appropriately.

Efficiently manage multiple Web sites: The Web Content Management capabilities in SharePoint enable people to publish Web content with an easy-to-use content authoring tool and a built-in approval process. Employees can upload content - including images, audio, and video - to Web sites in a timely manner without extensive support from IT staff. Templates in the form of master pages and page layouts enable organisations to apply consistent branding to pages. Built-in Web analytics features provide support for Traffic, Search, and Inventory analytics reports. SharePoint offers a single deployment and management infrastructure for intranet, extranet, and Internet sites, as well as for multilingual sites.