Managing the content explosion.

This article reports that ovum.com have long nagged about the importance of properly managed digital information, and the need for that message to reach a much wider audience. They intend to keep up the nagging. The problem is, it is such a dull topic that keeping anyone's interest for more than a few minute scan be tough. At the end of the day, content and document management are the digital equivalent of filing paper documents in cabinets and then retrieving the documents at a later date. Within an enterprise, it is at least technically feasible to store all content in a single repository, but that is unlikely to happen. The number of storage locations within an enterprise from desktop and laptop hard drives, through the network, to the database make it a complex, idealistic and difficult path to follow.