Traditional Enterprise Content Management (ECM) products and solutions have and continue to deliver the ability to manage content, documents, and records within the enterprise to meet today’s business regulations. ECM platforms are a corporate necessity and will continue to be the backbone for critical, high-value information management and collaboration capabilities for the foreseeable future. However, there is a growing challenge in enterprise content creation and management. With the increase in knowledge workers and user friendly content creation tools, electronically stored information (ESI) volume is growing at nearly a hundred percent year over year. With this volume of information, over eighty percent of informational assets reside outside the ECM repositories, i.e. are “in the wild”.

With today’s dispersed mobile workforce, documents and records are now created and scattered across databases, servers, email applications, laptops, desktops and storage systems around the world. The problem is how to find the key critical documents and records in today’s informational ocean and pull them into the ECM workflow, while leaving the rest in-place and indexing it. Because, importing all documents and records into the corporation’s central ECM repository is no longer possible or feasible due to sheer volume. A solution to the “in the wild” information problem would be to provide ECM functionality and features ranging from information access, information management, records management, metadata capture and management, full text and full content indexing, auto-classification across any device to separate non-critical information from critical information and seamlessly transition it into the ECM repository or indexing and managing information in-place.

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