IS CLOUD CONTENT MANAGEMENT A SILVER BULLET? How evolving cloud systems are paving the way toward the mega content repository By Bud Porter-Roth
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s more and more organizations look to move toward cloud content management, this particular technology segment is quickly evolving into a fragmented set of applications and tools. Today, cloud content management can be used in two main ways: to supplement your existing enterprise content management (ECM) system—basically acting as a collaborative front-end to the current system—or
as a standalone solution that manages your documents and files. Perhaps the most common cloud content management application is simple file sharing and collaboration, which has been around for many years. However, these cloud systems are evolving to serve as the front-end of a large third-party database, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, or Oracle, spanning across many terabytes or even DOCUMENTmedia.com Fall-Winter.2019
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