Next Generation ECM for Mission Critical Applications: Open Source ECM Capabilities and Opportunities

Enterprise content management (ECM) systems have long proven their value as enablers of mission-critical business applications. As the next generation of solutions takes hold across the ECM landscape, stakeholders are finding attractive options to expensive monolithic systems. This paper lays out the requirements for mission critical enterprise content solutions. It differentiates ECM as a class of technology application from other types of content management technologies. It describes the core functionality and capabilities that are essential for contemporary ECM practices, and shows how modern open-source ECM platforms overcome limitations that have compromised the full realization of benefits in the past.