Web Content Management is a critical component of any successful online business strategy. Enterprise Content Management is undoable the future of Web development. It provides too many benefits for developers and for clients: less cost to develop a Web site, less cost to maintain it, and empowerment for all concerned.

Enterprise Content Management generally uses common Internet Browsers to provide employees with easy-to-use tools that enable them to create and publish rich, personalized content directly to Web sites. Role-based distributed publishing models incorporate approval workflows with multiple levels, automatic content scheduling and archiving, and content indexing.

Developers can create centrally-managed page templates and publishing processes that ensure consistency across the site, making it easy to ensure adherence to corporate publishing standards and branding without diminishing the flexibility of the publishing environment.

Enterprise Content Management also provides IT departments with the tools necessary to quickly build and deploy the core infrastructure of a Web site, including site structure, presentation templates, site design, application integration, and security.

By far the most common ECM problems include:

1. Getting started (selecting the best ECM for you);
   
2. Concurrently redesigning one or more websites;
   
3. Recovering an existing struggling/failing ECM;
   
4. Integrating ECM with an Enterprise Portal technology; and
   
5. Integrating ECM with new or existing Search Technology.

ComTec's experience & skill with ECM covers each of these common areas.
Its methodology is covered in the following sections.

• Clarity Consulting Practice
  
  
• Package Selection and Implementation
  
  
• Business Process Optimization