As organizations continue to struggle with information overload, an increasing number of them are turning to enterprise content management (ECM) to help capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content - structured and unstructured - and documents related to organizational processes.
Like most software solutions, ECM is now being deployed in the cloud - or, at least part of it is. Termed "hybrid ECMs," a growing number of the solutions include both traditional, licensed software options plus cloud-based alternatives that allow for 24/7 access from anywhere via the web.
IDC analyst Melissa Webster wrote recently that hybrid ECM isn't just a means to an end, but rather the "solution for the mixed deployment environments that will ...