Functions
ECI systems, in particular, and Unified Information Access systems in general, attempt to address the growing trend of the recognition that so-called “unstructured content,” such as a series of documents, can be important and can contribute to business development. Their other important function lies in their ability to increase the efficiency which with organizations can retrieve data by providing a single channel to access a wide variety of storage locations.
Enterprise content integration aims to answer 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)
Read more about this topic: Enterprise Content Integration
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.”
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