Content Management as a Service

Dynamic Provisioning and Workload Management of Grid-based Content Management Services

For today's businesses, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is getting a crucial task, since huge amounts of structured as well as (more and more) unstructured business data produced and consumed by business processes need to be managed efficiently. Obviously, reliability, availability and scalability are further ECM key requirements (resilience). A further requirement is the integration into an enterprise's business processes. Since enterprises are currently in the process of being transformed into more componentised business functions for improved productivity and flexibility, enterprise content manager must also be provided as services, which can be used within business processes in a utility based manner. To make ECM available in such a manner, the IT infrastructure of ECM must move from the traditional centralized system approach to a decentralized, service oriented approach, that allows the management of business data originating from geographically dispersed sources. Another prerequisite to use ECM as a service is the examination of services/grid technology in order to flexibly and dynamically adapt ECM system power to current workloads and, thereby, considerably increase overall efficiency.