In today's complex electronic organizations, many companies struggle with the structure and safety of their documents, images, videos, etc. Systems managing content that needs to be approved or refined via workflow, repurposed, maintained or published require sound content management methodology and implementation, where information architecture meets application functionality.
Whether you are deploying your first enterprise content management application, running a large system in production or rolling out ECM to your entire organization, implementing a content management system with Beach Street's Content Management Services helps companies realize:
- Significant labor savings related to content search and retrieval
- Mitigated risk by enforcement of appropriate content security policies
- Elimination of recreation and duplication of existing content
- Reduction in IT expenditures and support costs through platform consolidation
- Overall gain in business process efficiencies through automation
Beach Street's implementation services not only install and configure your ECM solution, but provide significant knowledge transfer to both technical and end-user personnel. We also assist in road map deployment planning to meet a variety of future business objectives using our best practices approach.
Beach Street thinks strategically and acts tactically to provide rapid solutions to real business challenges. A successful Content Management implementation requires much more than the investment in technology, it also involves putting the processes and people in place to manage all aspects of content management needed by your company. At Beach Street, we understand the Content Management needs of companies in different verticals based on our experience, and we offer our clients proven best practices to maximize their efforts and budget to create a solid Content Management system with ROI for years to come.
To learn how we have successfully partnered with our clients in the Content Management arena and how we can help your company, please contact us.
Common challenges in both simple and complex content management environments include:
- Large amounts of time spent searching for documents
- Staff and/or Customers viewing information that should be secured
- Difficulties with staff using old or incorrect versions
- Multiple repositories and redundant infrastructure
- Inadvertent deletion of important files
- Duplication, rework, and inefficiencies
Beach Street's Content Management Services help you establish a unified content management platform that makes the creation of your electronic information assets simpler and more consistent across the enterprise. Throughout the life cycle of your ECM system, our seasoned experts guide, mentor and support your efforts by following these Streetwise™ steps:
- Identify driving business factors and understand regulatory requirements
- Assess existing information architecture, supporting system infrastructure, and overlap between those systems
- Develop a high level Future State Design including:
- Information Architecture
- Infrastructure Architecture
- Business Process, Reporting, and other Application architectures
- Integration points and standardization
- Develop a Strategic Road Map including effort and cost assessment
- Identify a representative and particularly critical and business process as a pilot
For examples of how our clients have benefited from working with Beach Street's Content Management services, we hope you'll read through some of our case studies below: