Web Content Management is a critical component of any successful online business strategy. Enterprise Content Management is without a doubt the future of Web development. It provides too many benefits for developers and for clients: less cost to develop a Web site, less cost to maintain it, and empowerment for all concerned.
Enterprise Content Management generally uses common Internet Browsers to provide employees with easy-to-use tools that enable them to create and publish rich, personalized content directly to Web sites. Role-based distributed publishing models incorporate approval workflows with multiple levels, automatic content scheduling and archiving, and content indexing. Developers can create centrally-managed page templates and publishing processes that ensure consistency across the site, making it easy to ensure adherence to corporate publishing standards and branding without diminishing the flexibility of the publishing environment.
Enterprise Content Management also provides IT departments with the tools necessary to quickly build and deploy the core infrastructure of a Web site, including site structure, presentation templates, site design, application integration, and security.
By far the most common ECM problems include:
- getting started (selecting the best ECM for you);
- concurrently redesigning one or more websites;
- recovering an existing struggling/failing ECM;
- integrating ECM with an Enterprise Portal technology; and
- integrating ECM with new or existing Search Technology.
Revere's experience & skill with ECM covers each of these common areas. Its methodology is covered in the following sections.
Clarity Workshop
Using a blend of facilitation techniques and interviews, our Clarity Workshop offers a unique and iterative approach to assist you in formulating an ECM vision for your organization. We begin by analyzing your “current state” with respect to current content repositories (both on-site & off-site), day-to-day activities, roles, training, support structures and communications. From there, the focus shifts to deriving your “future state” by defining practicable (feasible) ECM process improvements, key efficiency drivers, information needs, technology enhancements and change drivers that are necessary to move your organization towards the future ECM-empowered state.
Package Selection & Rapid Package Implementation
The Revere Group can help you find and select the right software and hardware to support your ECM needs. We use unbiased, structured selection methodologies to assure a good fit between the technology solutions and both your current & future requirements.
In addition, we also have a solid track record when it comes to implementing ECM package solutions - including significant customizations. Our approach has been incorporated in fast-track methodologies designed to help our clients achieve an accelerated return on investment from their ECM solutions. In addition, we place an emphasis on co-management and knowledge transfer on all of our engagements. Our primary goal is to ensure that your staff is capable of supporting the ECM system once The Revere Group is no longer a part of the landscape.
Business Process Optimization
The Revere Group has extensive experience analyzing and implementing gaps between current and best practices. As part of our ECM implementations, we are often called upon to make recommendations for improving practices and creating efficiencies within content authoring, approval & publishing. Many of these efficiencies are realized through replacing manual efforts with automated approval routings and reporting capabilities, which enables you to spend less time on using ECM software, and more time on authoring content...which is as it should be.