Transforming Infoglut! A Pragmatic Strategy for Oracle Enterprise Content Management

Introduction

Enterprise content management (ECM) is a broad category of software applications, whose goal is to gain control over your “unstructured content.” Unstructured content includes any kind of information that does not follow a rigid pattern: e-mails, Web content, research reports, policies and procedures, videos, and other digital assets. This is in contrast to “structured content,” which is generally applied to information stored inside a rigidly defined database table, and accessible through your enterprise applications.

Unstructured content is sometimes managed centrally, but too often it is strewn about your enterprise on shared file systems, Web applications, printed documents, archives, and USB thumb drives. This kind of content ...