Enterprise Content Management

Maximize the value of unstructured content

Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management. Read the latest report.

As the volume of content continues to rise, organizations struggle to use it effectively. Seventy-three percent of CEOs are making significant investments in their organizations’ ability to draw meaningful customer insights from available data.1 What’s needed is a way to discover the content, recognize its value, then act on it for better business insight and outcomes. IBM offers enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that deliver content in context to fully harness its potential. These industry-specific solutions can capture, activate, share, analyze and govern unstructured data to lower costs and risk while improving efficiency.

Enterprise Content Management capabilities

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    Document Imaging & Capture

    Capture content. Automate document imaging. Leverage integrated, flexible content repositories for content solutions.

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    Advanced Case Management

    Activate content. Achieve a 360-degree case view with collaboration, content, process, analytics and business rules.

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    Social Content Management

    Socialize content. Share, collaborate and manage content in context, including office documents.

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    Content Analytics

    Analyze content. Derive new business insight rapidly by accessing, interpreting and analyzing unstructured content.

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    Information Lifecycle Governance

    Govern content. Reduce run rate storage cost and risk. Operationalize, automate and instrument your defensible disposal program.


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IBM Enterprise Content Management solutions provide you with the capability to capture, manage and share content using content-centric processes to add value to industry-specific outcomes.

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Enterprise Content Management success stories

Iowa State University leverages enterprise content management to reduce paper output and cut costs.

PPL reduced record access times from 5 days to seconds employing IBM enterprise content management.

Security First Insurance uses Content Analytics to build bridge between social media and claim process.

St Vincent Health extends automation from patient records to vendor invoices with IBM FileNet software.

Turn content into business insight using industry-specific solutions that capture, activate, socialize, analyze and govern content for better outcomes.

Successful companies are transforming their businesses by activating content and applying analytics to gain actionable insights. These solutions include capabilities in document imaging and capture, advanced case management; social content management, content analytics, and information lifecycle governance.

Featured products

  • Case Manager

    Optimizes case outcomes with information, processes and people.

  • Content Collector

    Unlocks the business value of content with smart archiving products.

  • Datacap Taskmaster Capture

    Automates input of data from documents to reduce cost and accelerate document process efficiencies.

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Interviews with Enterprise Content Management forward thinkers

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Craig Rhinehart, Director of ECM Strategy and Market Development discusses making better decisions faster.

Diedre Paknad, Director of Information Lifecycle Governance discusses the path towards defensible disposal.

Cengiz Satir, IBM Social Content Management, Program Director, and John Mancini, President, AIIM, discuss ECM in a social world

IBM® Content FoundationIBM® Content Foundation delivers full content lifecycle and document management capabilities to promote wide enterprise content management (ECM) adoption. It offers improved control of existing and new types of enterprise content with scalability, security, stability and cross-platform capabilities. IBM Content Foundation is designed for ease of use, supports rapid deployment and is suitable for small to large companies.

IBM® Connections Enterprise Content EditionIBM® Connections Enterprise Content Edition provides social content management that tightly integrates social collaboration tools with robust content and document management. It enables users to collaborate on trusted content in a contextual manner via social business tools that intuitively surface relevant expertise and knowledge, regardless of the user experience—web, desktop, or mobile. IBM Connections Enterprise Content Edition delivers an intuitive, consistent and modern user experience for business users as well as experienced knowledge workers who have specific content application requirements.

StoredIQ Inc. has been acquired by IBM. StoredIQ, a privately held company based in Austin, Texas, provides scalable analysis and governance of disparate and distributed email as well as file shares, desktops and collaboration sites. This includes the ability to discover, analyze, monitor, retain, collect, de-duplicate and dispose of data. In addition, StoredIQ can rapidly analyze high volumes of unstructured data in place for disposal eligibility and automatically dispose of files and emails in compliance with policy.

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IBM acquires StoredIQ Inc.

StoredIQ Inc. bolsters IBM leadership in managing big data with information lifecycle governance (ILG) software.

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