: What are the key concerns of ECM as it relates to web developers? As I understand it, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is a system of methods and strategies relating to managing and delivering

@Reiling115

For ECM you'll also need to be able to create your own workflow, so for example, an article may need to go through one team into the next with check in/out points. This is the biggest difference, as in a normal web-only CMS the capture, management, storage and delivery stages have very little separation (you can do all four in one step as one person without bureaucracy).

You'll also need a support contract (not aware of anything "enterprise" that can avoid one) as you cannot use something like this, at the size of company which counts as enterprise (usually 1000 employees and above) without making sure there are safety nets and accountability.

You may also need to attach supporting documents which are never displayed, like model sign-offs against photographs used or internal documents that serve as information sources.

Finally the emphasis is different. A read through MIKE 2.0 will hopefully show that ECM is focussed around Knowledge Management and Archiving (you have the addition of DAM for instance), rather than Blogs, Feeds, News, Product Launches and other "Marketing" that Drupal/Wordpress focus on.

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