Originally launched in 1999, the Hot Banana CMS is an award-winning content management tool designed with the small to medium sized enterprise in mind.

A workflow is a sequence of activities that achieve some defined purpose. The purpose can be transforming raw materials into a finished product, or provision of some kind of service, or just processing data into meaningful information. The purpose is achieved through a systematic organization of resources, roles and information flows. Examples of Workflows [...]

The word Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP conveys a sense of planning the use of enterprise-wide resources to achieve enterprise objectives in the best possible manner. However, ERP has come to mean something much less ambitious. It simply means integrating two or more separate applications. The integration is done by the use of a [...]

Enterprise Content Management uses Internet technologies to make information accessible from all over the world. In an age of global business, this enables employees spread across the globe to maintain effective contacts with their headquarters and also other offices located anywhere in the world. Internet technologies are used to create an intra-business network, and [...]

Visualize the following scenario: All enterprise content (wherever generated by whatever entity) goes into a single repository and users can receive different services (that they were receiving from different applications earlier, or are completely new services) from an integrated system with a standard front end. Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Application Integration, and Data Warehousing work [...]

The term “storage” means temporary storage while the term “preservation” means long-term storage. Both may use the same kinds of media to store the content, though long-term storage often uses read-only media. In addition to repositories, the “storage” component includes library services and storage technologies. Library services provide access to the content in the [...]

Traditionally, the focus of information systems was on capture of data, processing it in standard ways, and distributing standard reports to managers. The emerging focus of Enterprise Content Management systems is to see the information as enterprise knowledge, and make it available on demand to people and processes. Enterprise Content Management or ECM is [...]

Corporate web portals serve as a single interface to work with varied content and different applications. Both employees and outside entities like suppliers, customers, and the government can use the corporate portal to get information, contribute to content, and communicate with the company. The portal interface can accommodate content like text, pictures, audio, video, [...]

Enterprise Content Management involves capturing structured and unstructured content that?s generated all over the enterprise, storing that content, processing it into information, delivering that information to those who need it for decision-support, and finally transferring it to long-term storage for preservation until it can be removed safely from the system. Enterprise Content Management seeks [...]

The ECM Association ,AIIM, defines ECM as: “…the technologies used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM tools and strategies allow the management of an organization’s unstructured information, wherever that information exists.” The focus of the definition above is on tools and technologies. AIIM itself emphasizes [...]