by Angela Guess
Eric Barroca recently took a look at how enterprise content management (ECM) systems are developing in response to the rise of Big Data. Barroca writes, “ECM technology is evolving toward a platform-based approach, enabling organizations to make their own content-centric and content-driven applications smarter. Analysts, vendors and users all agree: The time for ‘out-of-the-box’ CMS applications has passed. Now each project can meet specific needs and individual requirements. One thing to note is that content and data, more often than not, come with embedded intelligence — whether through adding custom metadata and in-text information or by leveraging attached media and binary files — and it can be utilized, whether structured or unstructured.”
He continues, “This can be observed on many different levels across various domains. For instance, the arrival of what some have started to call “Web 3.0″: the semantic Web and the related technology that promotes intelligence out of raw content through advancements like semantic text analysis, automated relations and categorization, sentimental analysis, etc. — effectively, giving meaning to data. More traditional ECM components, such as workflow, content lifecycle management and flexibility, demonstrate much of the same.”
