Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Content Management Needs Collaboration

Nowadays more and more companies realize it needed a way to share information and work with partners and customers outside its corporate network.

Few years ago, before meeting they think on how to pull documents out and get them to the meeting, and afterwards how to move that documentation back. And there is nothing automated there. Not anymore, there are some products which could be integrated the company 's real-time collaboration capabilities into its enterprise content management system.

Many companies could ask why they need to buy a collaboration tool from one company, a website from another, content management system from another and a search engine from another? That is reasonable as it seems a waste of time and money.

Collaboration is more important part of a bigger content management that knowledge management portal companies are looking at as they try provide the changing needs of businesses searching for a more connective way to get most out of their growing amounts of data.

But content management developers started to look at collaboration capabilities, where users can manage information during creation process, using whiteboards, exchanging tasks, sharing discussions and instant messaging, for example. And some companies could provide a full spectrum of capabilities. That's why business users are seeing content management companies announce new features.

One issue for businesses is whether they already use a collaboration product. Companies with collaboration tools will scrap what they have to use features from content management vendors. What is important in that case, is that content management systems consist with proven collaboration software.

Though most of businesses users are still collaborate by use e-mail. In some respects it works fine. In other respects, it doesn't.

Anna Silventoinen,

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