Emerging Trends in Information Technology (ETIT)

Enterprise Content Management  ( ECM ) 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.  ECM  tools and strategies allow the  management  of an organization's unstructured information , wherever that information exists. — Enterprise content management (ECM ) is a set of defined processes that allow a corporation, agency or organization to obtain, organize, store and deliver information crucial to its operation in the most effective manner possible. Enterprise content management ( ECM ) is used to create, store, distribute, discover, archive and manage unstructured content (such as scanned documents, email, reports, medical images and office documents ), and ultimately analyze usage to enable organizations to deliver relevant content to users where and when they need it. Enterprise ...

Cloud Computing Definition : Cloud Computing is a pay-per-use model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g. networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Cloud computing is using the internet to access someone else's software running on someone else's hardware in someone else's data center. (Lewis Cunningham) Source: (http://solmagazine.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/journey-to-the-cloud) This cloud model promotes availability and is composed of  five  essential   characteristics, three   service models , and   four   deployment models . Five Key Characteristics of Cloud Computing On-demand self-service : A consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed automatically without requiring ...