Cimtech One-day Courses

Introduction to Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

One-day course
Venue: Innovation Centre, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB. (Map)
2012 Dates: Contact Cimtech for details.

What is ECM?
What can it do for your organisation?
The key ECM components: Document management, records management, Web content management, business process management, collaboration.
A detailed review of the ECM marketplace.

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Overview

Enterprise content management (ECM) is a fast-growing market with all the major software suppliers—including Microsoft and Oracle—joining specialist providers to offer ECM suites. ECM helps organisations to manage their growing volumes of documents and to control the publication of content to web sites. ECM enables collaboration and business process management (BPM) and supports corporate records management for compliance.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the key ECM components, technologies, standards and best practice, together with a detailed review of the ECM marketplace—from the leading specialist products to Microsoft SharePoint. (See also Cimtech’s companion one-day course for a guide to Successfully Managing an Enterprise Content Management Project.)

Programme

The morning session starts by defining what is meant by ECM and how the ECM marketplace has developed to help organisations meet the challenge of electronic content management. The course then reviews the key components of enterprise content management and the key functions and services that comprise an overall solution.

These cover Input/Capture, Management, Storage and Output.

Input includes scanning, capture of digital content, indexing and classification.
Management covers document management (DM), records management (RM), Web content management (WCM), business process management (BPM), collaboration, and digital asset management (DAM).
Storage covers library services, storage subsystems, preservation strategies including migration, and the management of records in digital and analogue format.
Output covers the options available for rendering, delivery and publication of content.

The afternoon session looks at standards and best practice guidelines for ECM, including technical format standards, metadata standards, interchange standards, standards for electronic records management (ERM) including MoReq2 and governance standards.

The day concludes with a survey of the options for implementing ECM—from using existing infrastructure to procuring a full-scale solution—and a review of the marketplace including all the major software and service providers.

The sessions are designed to be interactive with time set aside for discussion.

Programme Details

PROGRAMME
09.00	Registration and Coffee
09.15	Introduction to Cimtech and the course
	An introduction to enterprise content management (ECM) The background to ECM and the business case for implementing ECM in your organisation.
10.15	Coffee Break
10.45	A review of the key ECM components. Part 1, Input/capture— document imaging, electronic content capture, indexing and classification.
11.30	A review of the key ECM components. Part 2, Management — document management (DM), records management (RM), Web content management (WCM), business process management (BPM) and collaboration. Part 3, Storage Part 4, Output
	Discussion
12.45	Lunch Break
13.30	Standards and best practice guidelines for ECM Format, metadata, information and records management (TNA, MoReq2, ISO), and governance standards.
14.45	Tea Break
15.00	A survey of the options for implementing ECM and a review of the products and trends in the supplier marketplace
	Discussion
16.30	Close

* Cimtech reserves the right to alter the timing and content of the sessions.

Speakers

All sessions will be delivered by Cimtech senior consultants including Tony Hendley, John Walsh and Alison Gibney.

Fees

£225.00 +VAT (early discount rate)
£250.00 +VAT (full rate)
Course fees includes lunch, refreshments and a copy of the course documentation.(A £25.00 early booking discount is offered on bookings received at least 28 days in advance of the course date. See course brochure for details.)

Booking

Please use our online booking form to reserve one or more places on this course. Alternatively, download the course brochure (PDF) and complete the booking form on page 4. Special diets can be accommodated.

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