Enterprise content integration (ECI) is a middleware software technology that connects together all computer systems that manage documents and digital content (Enterprise content management, Document management, Groupware, Records management…) In computing, middleware consists of software agents acting as an intermediary between different application components. ... Enterprise content management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Originally, a document management system (DMS) was a computer program (or set of programs) used to track and store images of paper documents. ... Collaborative software, also known as groupware, is application software that integrates work on a single project by several concurrent users at separated workstations (see also computer supported cooperative work). ... Records management is the practice of identifying, classifying, archiving, and sometimes the controlled destruction of records. ...
Enterprise content integration answers a number of needs in today's organizations:
Migrating content (documents and images) from one system to another
Synchronizing part or all the content between two or more content repositories
Searching for documents across all content repositories
Offering a single point of access to all documents and content of the organization
Publishing or pushing this content to other systems (enterprise portals, web sites)