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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

What is Enterprise Content Management (ECM)? Definition and meaning

An ECM system captures, manages and stores content such as processes, strategies, knowledge and documents. This content is made available within a company.

Analysing the individual terms gives the best description of the system:

  • Enterprise: Defines which people or groups have access to the data and what permissions (write, read) they are granted
  • Content: Defines the content that can be captured
  • Management: Defines that the content can be captured, managed and edited.
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Frequently asked questions

What does Enterprise Content Management mean?
An ECM system captures, manages and stores content such as processes, strategies, knowledge and documents, and makes it available within a company.
What do the terms Enterprise, Content and Management stand for?
Enterprise defines which people or groups have access to the data and what permissions they are granted. Content describes the material that can be captured, and Management the capturing, managing and editing of that material.
Which software supports Enterprise Content Management?
Content can be captured, managed and stored centrally. With file management from projectfacts, documents and knowledge are available across the company.