Implementing Federation with the ECM Strategy

Now that you understand what is possible, the next question is how should you get started? Clearly, consolidating all content into one system is the ideal, but sometimes that’s not feasible. You may have invested a great deal of time and energy into a heavily customized system, which is running fairly well, and which a migration to a centralized, strategic system may be too costly to justify. This is where a federation as opposed to a consolidation strategy may present the best approach.

As discussed in Chapter 3, the first step is to enumerate all the content repositories in your enterprise, and classify them as strategic, tactical, or replaceable. Strategic and replaceable repositories should be ...

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