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•Guest Column: Manager's Checklist: Get The Support You Need To Succeed With ECM

By Laurel Sanders, Optical Image Technology

An enterprise content management (ECM) implementation is more than just a solution to inefficiency, a way to address unique business challenges, or a chance to get ahead of the competition. It's also a relationship between you and your vendor's support team. Unless you have a highly skilled and underutilized IT support team in house, the quality of that relationship will be a determining factor in your long-term success with ECM. If you've conducted a painstaking evaluation of solution providers and are making an investment, why wouldn't you choose a partner who you're confident will help you to succeed over the long haul?

An ECM system should serve you well for many years. After all, your business information is vital to business continuity, and you need to entrust it to a system that will manage it well. As you evaluated your options, you probably scrutinized multiple vendors, narrowing the list to those whose products suited your requirements. Yet what you need from your ECM solution today may differ from what you will require in a few years. Your software must be adaptable, and your support team must be able to respond to every inquiry with the expert guidance you need. Products are only part of the equation; quality, timely support is critical to success as your company grows and your needs change.

Asking the right questions at the beginning is crucial. These guidelines and the ensuing checklist should help you to get the answers you need so you can march on with confidence.

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•Guest Column: Manager's Checklist: Get The Support You Need To Succeed With ECM