White Paper: Enabling Enterprise Transparency

By Open Text

In striving to achieve cost efficiencies, increase information worker productivity, preserve and protect intellectual capital, mitigate risk and corporate liability, executive management is scrutinizing technology investments like never before.

Enterprise software applications, complex storage solutions, and departmental content and records management systems have been deployed over time to control associated risk and limit the effects of "content chaos." The way that progressive organizations think about and manage business content is changing. They are looking to advance enterprise-wide content management strategies beyond that of the cost of doing business toward a holistic approach that aligns IT investments with key business objectives.

Enterprise Transparency reflects the evolution of content management from simply tracking and controlling information to leveraging it for business advantage – setting it in action to drive business processes, create content-centric business applications, bridge structured and unstructured content repositories, and unleash information workers to make better, faster decisions based on a holistic, centralized view of business content.

This paper outlines an approach to achieving Enterprise Transparency by leveraging existing technology solutions and content repositories and coupling them with a next-generation Enterprise Content Management (ECM) framework. It will discuss the maturation of Enterprise Content Management (ECM), the core building blocks that enable Enterprise Transparency, the benefits it delivers, and this model equips organizations to begin profiting from business content as opposed to simply staving off the effects of content chaos.

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