Content management has proved its worth as a way to control website information, organize workflow, and handle such important corporate documents as customer contracts and product specifications. Now, many organizations are discovering that content management applications can deliver still more value when they are delivered as cloud-based services.
"With the cloud, we get a multimillion-dollar infrastructure that's always on. It's scalable, and we can compete at a level that was unheard of before," said Daniel O'Leary, vice president for global solutions at LincWare LLC, a Rochester, N.Y., maker of electronic forms management software.
O'Leary has found that cloud-based content management services benefit from the same characteristics that are driving the cloud to become an alternative and in some cases primary platform for all applications: lower overall cost, no requirement to build and own IT infrastructure, and the ability to add and subtract capacity as needed.
Further, many cloud-based content management services providers are enabling integration with other cloud apps. In addition, advances in logistics are spurring the creation of new hybrid content management services that include paper document scanning. Lastly, the cloud is gaining credibility for security and reliability -- historically, two stumbling blocks to companies considering using the cloud.
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Source: searchcio.techtarget.com
By: Stan Gibson
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