Key issues for Enterprise Content Management, 2007 By Gartner

According to Gartner, there are five challenges for ECM.
1) How can you measure the value of ECM?
--Since BCS has low initial price, their technologies are often adopted by business users. Therefore, BCS's rapid demand in organizations, it creates issue for ECM.

2) How can organizations best manage their content and information at both strategic and tactical levels?
--ECM needs to support the increasing interdependence of the organizations and workflow need to be cross applications.

3) How will the ECM/BCS market evolve?
--Current ECM suites lack the full integration of the ECM component technologies.

4) What role will ECM and information access technologies play in overall information management architecture?
--Information access has always been a critical component of an ECM suite and will play an even bigger role in helping companies sift through structured and unstructured information.

5) How can you effectively deploy contents technologies and solutions to address specific business problems?
--Organizations must analyze current business processes, and understand the changes that must occur as they are automated.