Theres a river of content moving through your organization every day, and the challenge has become to manage both how it enters your systems and where you go with it afterward. Content today is a more dynamic and competitively advantageous asset than its ever beenstatic forms and documents are out, and rich data, available anywhere and any time, is in.

By Robert Regis Hyle

In the evolutionary process of IT, first there was document managementwhere do you put all this paper, and how can you manage it throughout the operation? Next, there was content management. Documents no longer were solely on paper. There were electronic versions, and there was data being entered throughout the enterprise. Today, there is enterprise content management. All the information and documents you create, receive, store, and send out now are flowing throughout the enterprise. But the enterprise no longer is just a division or even a group of offices. The enterprise is virtually anywhere you want it to be.