Transforming Infoglut! A Pragmatic Strategy for Oracle Enterprise Content Management

The Specific ECM Problem

The challenge with unstructured repositories is in managing the content after it is created. How should the contributor find it again? How should other people find it and reuse it in the future? When should it be archived or deleted? Should it be repurposed and published to other systems? How do you make sure that this content doesn’t fall into the wrong hands?

According to most technology analysts, 80 percent of the useful information in your organization is unstructured content, as shown in Figure 1-1. Unfortunately, on average only 10 percent of this content is being properly managed in a repository. The rest resides in department-specific collaboration project spaces, shared disk drives, FTP servers, e-mail servers, ...