Enterprise Content Management: an investment that pays off.

Microsoft 365 is the leader in the digital productivity market, with more than 80 percent of the global market share. While you have very powerful and easy-to-use tools for document management, work processes and collaboration in Microsoft 365, these advantages can also cause problems. With the growing set of Microsoft 365 tools, employees can more and more easily create, duplicate and share new content with others. Positive, of course, but this dramatically increases the risk of fragmented information, content hidden in closed channels and thus poor transparency and compliance. 

Forward-thinking organizations are therefore increasingly choosing a Content Management solution to enhance the power of their Microsoft 365 environment, secure information processes and ensure compliance without sacrificing productivity and efficiency benefits. Although Microsoft offers powerful data storage and management tools with SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, etc., the Microsoft 365 suite does not include off-the-shelf plans for information management. This leads to document multiplication, failing version control and inefficient and potentially dangerous access management. Employees waste a lot of time searching for information, get frustrated and create their own storage methods, leading to reduced productivity and security. 

Not to mention production or other workers, who almost never have their organization's Microsoft 365 account. Yet this group of employees also creates and consumes (digital) content, e.g. consulting work instructions or safety regulations, reporting incidents or absences.  

An Enterprise Content Management platform connects Microsoft and non-Microsoft systems and users to create a single source of truth about all enterprise data. It provides search capabilities based on content rather than location, using metatags. ECM provides control over document access, versions, publishing and distribution for both knowledge workers and production staff.