Very valuable article. If you are not asking your prospective vendor these questions in today’s environment where security is a hyper-important topic then your doing yourself and your company a disservice.

By Bob Estes – Large-scale enterprise applications represent one of the single most important investment decisions a CIO is responsible for making. Whether it’s a large-scale CRM deployment, an ERP deployment or an enterprise content management (ECM) system, these applications are often used daily by thousands of employees and require a high degree of customization to meet the specific requirements of the distributed enterprise.

Enterprise content and information systems in particular serve as the productivity engine for the modern information worker and have become the foundation for enabling digital transformation initiatives. Because of the specialization and complexity involved in these types of deployments, enterprise IT leaders are increasingly looking to engage with experienced solution partners that possess the right knowledge and technical expertise to ensure they are choosing the right vendor and also help them implement and manage the solution on an ongoing basis.

As someone who has spent the past two decades immersed in practically every facet of the ECM industry, I’ve seen firsthand just how critical it is to not just choose the right technology to manage enterprise content, but perhaps more importantly, to select the right solution partner to provide the expertise and guidance to customers as they work to modernize their content management capabilities.

As someone who has spent the past two decades immersed in practically every facet of the ECM industry, I’ve seen firsthand just how critical it is to not just choose the right technology to manage enterprise content, but perhaps more importantly, to select the right solution partner to provide the expertise and guidance to customers as they work to modernize their content management capabilities. Read On: