Transforming Infoglut! A Pragmatic Strategy for Oracle Enterprise Content Management

Active Content Solutions

Active content is generally defined by the ECM industry as content needed by knowledge workers, such as Microsoft Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, or Web content. In all cases, the content is frequently accessed, edited, and enhanced. So an active content management system needs to support frequent revisions, and collaboration.

In general, active content has a large number of contributors and consumers. The content is of high current value, and clutter is a significant problem. As a result, active repositories contain fewer items than either transactional or historical repositories. Systems with a million items are common; systems with a hundred million items are less common. In most cases, old content is moved ...