Enterprise content management for energy and utilities from IBM

Enterprise content management: essential to your enterprise

Exploding volumes of content. Multiple content libraries. Growing compliance requirements. Process improvement demands. How do you solve these challenges, streamline your business processes and ensure that the right information is available to make the right decisions for your business? Better management of your enterprise content can help. And so can the enterprise content management solution for energy and utilities from IBM.

Unleash information trapped in paper

The enterprise content management solution, leveraging technology from Filenet®, an IBM company, can help you gain control of your information to become more efficient and responsive. The solution includes a broad set of tools and technologies to capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver information, content and documents related to organizational processes.

• IBM Content Manager enables a rich set of content management services for controlling both content and processes throughout a distributed enterprise.
• IBM Document Manager helps you more securely contribute, approve, publish and retain documents based on predefined business policies and regulations.
• IBM Workplace Web Content Management™ helps simplify the complexity of managing huge volumes of Web content.

Deliver a fast return on all your information

The enterprise content management solution is designed to help merge all your enterprise and departmental content sources. By improving access to information, linking engineering, suppliers and production—regardless of location—you can speed business processes, optimize production and aid in making the decisions that are critical to successful operations.

By intelligently managing business content and processes, you can benefit from:

• Better communications and improved processes that can drive faster and better decisions by linking customers, business partners, suppliers and employees.
• Increased organizational speed and agility by accelerating access to critical content.
• Uniformly applied rules for access, helping ensure information is only shared with authorized partners.
• Decreased cost of licensing activities for both new plants and license renewal for existing facilities.
• Demonstrated compliance for operational, health, safety, environmental and North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) cyber-security standards and regulations.
• Decreased costs and increased effectiveness of rate case submissions for regulated utilities.
• Shared key knowledge from the aging workforce.
• Enforced proper records management practices on all corporate content, which can greatly benefit in litigation support and demonstration of compliance.