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. Enterprise content management systems combine a wide variety of technologies and components, some of which can also be used as stand-alone systems without being incorporated into an enterprise-wide system.

Enterprise-level content management tends to go above and beyond the duties of simpler systems, offering tools like content revision control, security, preservation and destruction, and access rights management. While simpler systems may offer some of these features, Enterprise Content Management systems (ECMs) tend to be far more robust. At the same time, these systems are very expensive, much more complicated to manage, and are often seen as overkill for many sites and organizations. ECM systems often focus on unstructured content, but may serve structured content needs, as well.

Enterprise content management systems combine a wide variety of technologies and components, some of which can also be used as stand-alone systems without being incorporated into an enterprise-wide system. Some of them are:

Different components of ECM system:

1. Capture: The “Capture” category contains functionalities and components for generating, capturing, preparing and processing analog and electronic information. Capture component is also called “Input” component. There are several levels and technologies, from simple information capture to complex information preparation using automatic classification.

2. Manage: this is for the management, processing, and use of information. It uses inter-process communication with others components that incorporate:

• Databases for administration and retrieval, and
• Access authorization systems.

The goal of a closed ECM system is to provide these two components just once as services for all “Manage” solutions such as Document Management, Collaboration, Web Content Management, Records Management and Workflow / Business Process Management.

3. Store: Store components are used for the temporary storage of information, which is not required or desired to archive. Even if it uses media that is suitable for long-term archiving, “Store” is still separate from “Preserve”.

4. Deliver: It used to present information from the “Manage” and “Store”. They also contain functions used to enter information in systems or for readying information for the “Store” components. Since the component model is function-based and not to be regarded as architecture, we can assign these and other components here. The functionality in the “Deliver” category is also known as “output” and summarized under the term “Output Management.”

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The widespread use of World Wide Web technologies over the Internet, a variety of content and services are now easily accessible from desktop and notebook computing platforms. Web technologies have the potential to play the same role for mobile devices. However, the mobile Internet today suffers from many drawbacks that make the Web unattractive for most subscribers. The intention of the Mobile Web Initiative is to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy and convenient as Web access from a desktop device. Apart from representing a further delivery channel for existing Web users, it could represent the only, or primary, delivery channel to end users who do not have access to any other Web enabled devices.

Mobile application developers have made their primary entry into wireless sphere with the development of standalone applications on first generation hand-held devices and location based mobile applications and then swiftly graduated to delivering standalone applications for several online mobile communities that could transfer data over air.

Mobile application development of various mobile platforms is: iPhone Mobile Application Development – Companies are developing iPhone applications that can be used by thousands of consumers varying from enterprise users to mass consumers. Android Mobile Application Development – The latest phone Google Android is the hottest wave in the world of mobile application development.

Mobile application players are offering software for mobile devices that consist of an operating system, middleware and key applications. J2ME Mobile Application Development – J2ME devices are powerful enough to process large amount of information by themselves, J2ME applications are often thick clients for some backend enterprise application servers. Windows Mobile Application Development – Mobile application expertise has vast experience in Windows Mobile Application Development on platforms, such as Windows mobile 2003, Windows mobile 2003/SE, Windows mobile 5.0, Window mobile 6, Window mobile 6.1, Windows CE, Pocket PC 2002, 2003, and Net Compact Framework.

Today, with this increasing competition in mobile application development world, software development companies are offering complete, end-to-end mobile  solutions that incorporate business via mobile devices and content delivery systems to publish a range of information valuable for both suppliers and buyers.

Organizations are turning to Packaged Applications

Enterprises love to work with packaged solutions mostly due to shorter implementation cycles as well as due to the proven capability of the packaged solution. Yet seldom any packaged solution provides the exact solution that an enterprise seeks for its business operations as a result the need for enhancements and customizations arise.

Today, IT organizations are increasingly concerned about aligning their technology investments with corporate strategies and business objectives. Most business application development projects arise from the realization that there is a misalignment between the needs of the business and the technologies intended to support these needs. There may be new business goals or opportunities, the technology may be aging or growing unreliably, or the current automation might just be inadequate.

Once the business goals are specified, application development organizations turn to packaged applications to provide part of their overall solution. A packaged application provides a predefined solution within a well-defined business area. Underlying this solution is the package framework — the architectural foundation that determines the general behavior and extent of the out-of-the-box functionality. The framework includes some key elements:

•Built-in processes and rules implementing a vendor’s recommended practices within the business function.

•The major abstractions representing the business objects, such as Accounts, Contacts, Orders; the user interface elements that allow you to create, modify, and relate objects to each other; and the elements that provide process and communication control.

•A set of mechanisms that control the interaction and exchange of information with other systems and applications; this allows you to integrate functionality to provide a broader set of capabilities

When using a packaged application, there should be a good alignment between the package’s core processes and the organizations desired business practices. This helps to reduce effort compared to traditional custom development projects. If there are differences that go beyond configuration, the organization should be prepared to adapt its business practices to the package in order to minimize risk and reduce the cost of implementation. To minimize this risk, you must conduct a well-defined package evaluation and selection process. To do this effectively, you must have a detailed description of the desired business environment so that you can evaluate all aspects of the package’s functionality and framework in relation to each business goal.

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A software development process is a structure imposed on the development of a software product. There are several models for software development processes, each describing approaches to a variety of tasks or activities that take place during the process.

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Process Activities/Steps:

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• Requirements / Specification Analysis – Extracting the requirements of a desired software product is the first task in creating it. Specification is the task of precisely describing the software to be written. In practice, most successful specifications are written to understand and fine-tune software applications that were already well-developed, although safety-critical software systems are often carefully specified prior to application development.

• Software architecture – The architecture of a software system refers to an abstract representation of that system. Architecture is concerned with making sure the software system will meet the requirements of the product.

• Implementation / Testing – Reducing design to code is the most important part of the software engineering job. Testing parts of software, especially where code of two different engineers must work together falls to the software engineer.

• Documentation – An important task is documenting the internal design of software for the purpose of future maintenance and enhancement.

• Maintenance – Maintaining and enhancing software to cope with newly discovered problems or new requirements can take far more time than the initial development of the software. About 60% of all software engineering work is maintenance, but this statistic can be misleading. A small part of that is fixing bugs. Most maintenance is extending systems to do new things, which in many ways can be considered new work.

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