Since the beginning of the computer age, managing unstructured or semi-structured contents has been one of the biggest challenges faced by businesses. Structured contents are well-known, and have had a more or less standard repository in relational database management system.
As we are moving faster and faster into the information economy, and with the democratization of the information creation process, unstructured or semi-structured contents are generated at an exponential rate. It is estimated that more information has been produced in the last 30 years than in the previous 5,000. According to a study by the University of California in Berkeley performed in 2000, the world has produced between 2 and 3 exabytes of new information in 1999. The same study was repeated in 2003 in order to track the growth rate of information, and the researchers have found that the world has produced about 5 exabytes of new information in 2002. How much does that translate to new information per person per year? According to the Population Reference Bureau, the world population is 6.3 billion, thus almost 800 MB of recorded information is produced per person per year.
This has created a phenomenon called the "information overload" for individuals as well as for businesses. According to the same study above, billions of office documents, emails, records, images, diagrams, schema, materials of all kinds, are produced each year, and only a tiny percentage of these are organized and managed properly.
However, in the modern economy, information is the life blood of modern enterprises. There are so much information, is this a thread or an opportunity? Is there anything you can do about it? How can you use it to the benefits of your organization?
IDSignet's contents management solutions based on ID-DMS is designed to help modern organizations to organize this vast amount of information into business knowledge and intelligence, in order to help decision makers to make the right decision, and to give users the right tools to be more productive.