ECM covers a wide range of possibilities for re-gaining control over the content across your corporation.  Some features of ECM:

• Accountability.  Now you will always know who made that last revision.
• Accessibility.  Use, re-use, find, share any type of content across the enterprise.
• Collaborate.  have teams or departments collaborate in custom workspace where they can share files, notes, strategy etc.
• Compliance.  Does your industry or company have compliance standards for documents, work, records?  With EMC you can have the system manage everything for you.
• High availability and disaster recovery.  Clustering, replication and other methods can make sure your content is available 24 / 7.
• Integration. Want to add more power to your existing systems, ECM can be integrated to provide a solution.
• Search.  All your files and content can now have categories and descriptors.  Be able to perform detailed enterprise wide content searches.  They system also searches within the files and creates metadata for fast searches.
• Statistics.  Detailed statistics on all your content, across the enterprise.
• Security.  Granular user permissions to control who can see what content.
• Workflow.  Rule driven processing of content and workflow engines.

VisionTen can help you re-gain control over your content,  there are both open source and proprietary ECM solutions available for all budget levels.