Technology Fundamentals Series:
Technology Fundamentals courses offer a a vendor-neutral orientation to how the tools work and how to differentiate among them, including specific examples and screenshots from real products.

• Web Content Management Technology
• Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Technology
• Enterprise Portals Technology (coming soon)
• Enterprise Social Software (coming soon)
• Digital Asset Management Technology (coming soon)
• Comparing Web Application Development Platforms (coming soon)

Business Essentials Series:
Business Essentials courses help you deal with myriad challenges that arise in the application of content technologies, including essential management and governance issues.

• SharePoint 1: Evaluating Native SharePoint Services
• E-discovery Essentials (coming soon)
• Essentials of Web Operations Management (coming soon)

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Fundamentals of Enterprise Content Management Technology

Instructor: Alan Pelz-Sharpe: Principal, CMS Watch Length: 5 modules, 4.5 hours Cost: $395 per student

Based on the rigorous methodology employed in our ECM Suites Report, this course will provide you with a thorough grounding in Enterprise Content Management technology. It will enable you to identify your own requirements more clearly, understand how various ECM system services work, and differentiate among alternate architectures and approaches.

For more details, including learning objectives, download the course Fact Sheet (PDF).

Outline

Modules included in this course:

• Introduction to ECM
• ECM Essentials
• Common ECM Requirements
• ECM Architectures
• ECM Vendor Landscape and Trends

Who should take this course

• ECM system project managers, architects, and developers -- to understand what you're about to get into
• ECM product selection team members -- to level-set understanding, expectations, and terminology among the team
• Enterprise architects and IT managers -- to better guide business colleagues about choices and impacts
• Business analysts -- to learn what requirements need to be gathered
• Consultants -- to understand how ECM tools work and provide more value to clients
• Anyone considering implementing or replacing a ECM system

What's not covered

• Evaluations of specific products (consult our ECM Suites Report instead)
• How to build your own ECM platform (although this course could give you a jump-start)