Content and Digital Asset Management

Don't know which Content or Digitial Asset Management system to use? Need help with setting one up?

Your company produces a lot of information. That information is passed around and often reused in different forms for different purposes. Sometimes you want it published to the Web; sometimes you want it held in confidence.

What makes a good Enterprise Content Management System?

A good content management system allows all your employees to participate in the creation of shared information. This eliminates redundant copies and ensures that the latest version of the information is the one that's used by everyone. The latest systems provide integrated social networking for easy contact with the author or current owner of the content.

How can key proprietary information be kept private?

Of course some information needs to be internal only, or confidential at different levels of management. Today's content management systems offer comprehensive user roles to define who actually participates in the sharing of specific information.

Does this mean changing all the tools we're used to using?

Depending on the learning curve you want, a content management system can be relatively focused, requiring everyone to use the same tools, or completely open, where for example, output from Microsoft Word co-exists with output from XML databases. We're experienced in smoothing out all the differences between the multitude of content-producing tools out there.

Digital asset management systems accomplish much the same thing for non-text information like CAD files, photos, and video.