Content Integration: Are You Ready for It? Is It Ready for You?

摘要

But like other companies, your content continues to grow 50 to 80 percent a year, challenging your ability to manage it through traditional, functional applications. Meanwhile, the proliferation of stovepiped applications calls into question the integrity, authenticity, and consistency of your content. If you're the CIO of a major concern gazing out over your company's content application landscape, here is the vista you likely see: multiple types of function-point software solutions, multiplying content repositories, and competing vendor implementations, compounded by bolt-on applications inherited from company Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) activity. At the same time, you are expected to feed the nearly insatiable hunger of line managers for core, authorized corporate content, delivered in real time. Increasingly, you sense that managing content properly will require integrating it effectively. But where to integrate―and how? And are the integration tools really enterprise-ready?