
In the actual competitive context, the faster an organization is able to stay up to date and manage the information, the quicker it can make smart decisions. ECM refers to the technologies, strategies, methods and tools used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to an organization and its processes.


To meet the computing needs of mobile users, ECM vendors are increasingly targeting ECM applications for mobile devices. Bolstered by advances in GPS and Wi-Fi radio and a wide range of applications, smart phone shipments are up 23% for 2009. Today, people expect to be able to work anytime, anywhere, essentially be “liberated” from their PCs, so the smart phone has become the most popular new computing device.

As CMS Watch noted last month, how people work and where they work have changed – so much so that it’s impelling Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendors to realign their offerings to today’s users.
