Forget Traditional Enterprise Content Management - Go Cloud

Traditional Enterprise Content Management Software Applications Can Go Cloud, Too

For all the promise of an enterprise content management (ECM) platform delivered with the cloud, it raises an important question: how to reconcile this new type of solution with a company’s already installed infrastructure? Generally, if you have invested in content management software, you have made an investment in more than just software. You've invested in the surrounding technologies as well. However, traditional content management software solutions fall far short of meeting rapidly evolving business needs. For example, adding addtional capabilities to smoothly handle invoice payments, sales contract negotiation and signatures, and time and expense reporting may entail costly customization fees.  Fortunately, cloud ECM platforms offer a fast, easy, highly affordable way to add bullet-proof content management and workflow capability to support emerging business needs.

Tips to Leverage Existing Enterprise Content Management Investments

Consider this three-step best practices approach as proven by leading organizations:

1. Introduce cloud applications first in new solution areas, especially those that cross organizational boundaries, where the economics of traditional ECM and alternatives like SharePoint are especially poor. This will provide an initial proving ground for the cloud approach.
2. Once you gain comfort you may find (as our experience has shown) that it is less expensive to implement cloud ECM for departments and applications where you are considering extending existing ECM applications. With the cloud approach proven in an initial application, this is the next natural place to expand.
3. Next, as legacy applications reach end-of-life, they can be replaced with the now-proven cloud platform. You will find that this is a natural evolution as users realize the benefits of cloud ECM.
4. Consistency of the user interface and platform functions across applications leads to repeatable solutions, rapid user adoption and reduced training requirements. This allows you to concentrate on the core functions of your business while leaving the management of technology to SpringCM.

As organizations struggle to manage an ever-growing volume of unstructured business data, they need to develop a strategy for effective content management applications across the enterprise—not simply one-size-fits-all ECM. A cloud ECM platform makes it possible for companies to overcome the high development and maintenance costs, administrative complexity, and barriers to adoption of traditional, deployed ECM platforms.

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