As technology has rapidly evolved to support business needs, many organizations are struggling with growing volumes of enterprise content including emails, documents, instant messages, databases, videos, and web content. These various forms of content reside on file servers, on employee hard drives, on web servers, and other computers throughout the enterprise. Content too often exists in a state of unmanaged chaos that prevents the business from utilizing its information assets efficiently. Some of the common challenges include:
- Duplication of data and content
- Lost productivity related to duplicate content development
- Loss of knowledge due to the inability to share data and content effectively
- Increased IT spending due to ever larger volumes of data and content
- Business process issues including regulatory and compliance conformity
- Lack of appropriate content-based security exposing the business to risk
The Microsoft SharePoint platform, combined with Microsoft FAST Search and KnowledgeLake, is an excellent foundation for Enterprise Content Management (ECM). This combination provides the tools to find and manage the full lifecycle of content on a single unified platform, including document management, records management, web content management, and forms solutions. Additionally, since the solution leverages industry-standard Microsoft Office applications, it is adopted by end-users more easily and enables end-users to take ownership of content management processes. Once the end-users begin to take ownership of the content management process, it reduces the IT burden and cost by distributing content management responsibility across the organization.
Northridge provides expertise with Microsoft’s ECM offering which relies on a foundation of SharePoint as part of your organization’s overall infrastructure. Reducing the burden on your IT professionals and integrating with the familiar Microsoft Office system, the Microsoft ECM solution is able to extend content management capabilities to every information worker in your organization. Utilizing our technical experience, business process knowledge and proven True North Methodology™, Northridge will help your organization leverage the Microsoft ECM solution and SharePoint such that employees access and utilize data assets to do their jobs more efficiently while also reducing hardware, software, and future personnel costs.