Item: IBM Enterprise Content Manager
Rating: 7
Author: Prabhakar Digumarthi

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my organization IBM Enterprise Content Management is used across the organization by various departments. It is used to store all customer related documents. It also provides easy access to stored content. It also provides the business management capabilities. It is also used to eliminate the need to store the physical documents, hence saving lot of cost and human effort.

Pros and Cons

It provides easy to use administrative tools to work with the product.
Good documentation on the production is available which makes it easier to use.
It supports high availability architecture

There can be scope of improvement in the area of content modeling.

Return on Investment

After using the IBM ECM in HR department the productivity of the department increased
There are lot of cost savings because of eliminating the need to maintain physical documents

Alternatives Considered

Alfresco,Hyland Software OnBase ECM

The support that IBM provides.

Likelihood to Renew

We have been using IBM Enterprise Content Management for years and feel comfortable using this.

Likelihood to Recommend

The choice of the IBM ECM product mainly depends on the the following question. What type content you are planning to store and how you are going to use the content?

IBM ECM - Filenet P8

Software Version

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Enterprise Content Management