Reduce IT Costs and Improve Productivity with Web Standards-based Content Integration

An Introduction to Total Content Integrator

Executive Summary

Organizations are drowning in content. They don't know what they have and they can't find what they need when they need it. They are spending a lot of money to manage - or mis-manage -content with a hodgepodge of disconnected systems. They are at risk of legal and regulatory non-compliance and they are undermining business operations. The enterprise content that is a critical corporate asset is delivering little or no value.

Content management solutions that capture, manage, store, preserve, deliver and destroy content have been around for years. More accurately, systems that deliver partial solutions for managing content have been widely adopted. These are primarily stand-alone, departmental solutions that focus on document management and collaboration and that address only a fraction of the real enterprise content management challenge. Leading vendors have a broader perspective on content, providing integrated management of both the documents created by users at their desktops and the voluminous, diverse content produced by enterprise applications.

Today, driven by the need to reduce costs and by increasingly demanding requirements for regulatory and legal compliance, the enterprise content management (ECM) landscape is changing, with organizations seeking integrated solutions for all content, e-mail and traditional corporate records. Integrating all content in a single system will significantly reduce IT infrastructure costs by consolidating servers and eliminating software that the enterprise licenses and maintains. It will also simplify the environment for users who now need to learn and log on to only one system to retrieve the content they need. Mobius's market-leading ViewDirect® Repository is the most robust solution available for integrated archiving, featuring a highly scalable, high-performance engine that manages billions of items a year, provides complete security and access control, and guarantees the long-term integrity and availability of critical information assets.

But converting content from legacy content management systems may be time consuming and/or is a solution that provides a consolidated view of content in multiple, disparate repositories, utilizing an open architecture based on standard Web services to ensure interoperability across applications and computing platforms. This approach dramatically reduces the costs of desktop software by eliminating the need for multiple proprietary viewers to different content repositories and improves productivity by putting all content at users' fingertips. A robust content integration solution seamlessly and efficiently makes content available to users and delivers content to business applications across the organization. The resulting benefits are striking: reduced IT integration and maintenance costs, enhanced customer service, and accelerated decision making, time to market and revenue growth.

This paper examines the business and technical challenges of integrating disparate enterprise content and introduces Mobius's Total Content Integrator (TCI), a uniquely full-featured solution for accessing content from multiple sources.

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