Have
you ever wondered if Big Data and Enterprise Content management come
together they can become a great combination? I’ll tell you why.
First
lets get to know what is Big Data and ECM.
It
is a broad term used to describe the growth of structured and
unstructured data, in the form of social media, blogs, audios,
videos, paper-based content, electronic files and office documents.
- Enterprise
Content Management (ECM)
Enterprise
Content Management (ECM) is the strategies, methods and tools used to
capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents
related to organizational processes (Source: AIIM). It is generally
aimed at the management of information and its life cycle from
initial creation or publication. According to me, most of the ECM
platforms deal with unstructured data such as emails, documents,
tweets, blogs, movies and so forth. Let’s take a quick glance at
the history of Enterprise Content Management. These days, storage has
a lot cheaper.
ECM
empowering Big Data
According
to Gartner’s predictions, by 2018, companies’ data will increase
by 800%. Around eighty percent of which would comprise of
unstructured data that is relatively difficult to manage. It would
include collection, management, storage, searching and archiving the
content.