As a business manager, you are constantly urged to improve quality and operational efficiencies. With the cost of content management systems running anywhere from RM200K to RM2Mil what kind of return can you expect? And when different vendors say they can do it all, how are you able to shop and compare benefits?

Once you investigate further, you'll find that our technology enables them to streamline their existing business processes without having to re-engineer them, and in most cases, our software has much lower hardware requirements as compared to other vendors.

Most ECM systems, for example, may require three to four servers and database licenses, whereas Interwoven only requires one. Yet our branching technology allows you to support an unlimited number of initiatives with one instance of Interwoven's TeamSite. All this adds up to big savings -- which can easily exceed RM500,000 for a medium-size customer. Furthermore, we are one of the few systems that do not require that you retrofit your content into databases. With Interwoven, all you have to do is drag and drop your content into TeamSite, and you're ready to go.

Enter Once and Use May, How Efficient!

Templating provides vivid example of how our content entry tools provide enormous savings in the production process:

As you can see in the left screenshot, a typical environment without templating, the creation of a press release page would take roughly four hours and cost RM970 to produce. With the help pf TeamSite templating, editing that same page will take under 30 minutes and cost little more than RM80.

How is this possible? Because templating takes advantage of XML and enables content reuse through the separation of presentation from content. This allows the content contributor to be able to enter their information into a data capture template and select one of several presentation templates to apply. In the absence of templating, the contributor would have to design the page layout, write HTML code, write JAVA code, QA the page and publish. Templating saves time and money. In fact, many customers save up to 80% in production costs over the old way.

Instant QA From Your Desktop

Interwoven pushes QA down to the contributor level. Whether you have just submitted a document to the portal, edited HTML, or updated application code, you can immediately see the impacts of your changes on the whole site before going live. We call this virtualization. With Interwoven, QA is fast and intuitive. When you have lots of changes and hund

Smart Content, Big Savings

Interwoven is the only company that offers an integrated content intelligence product. MetaTagger is able to creates metadata both automatically and semi-automatically depending on your needs. This means that your staff can spend more time working on content and less time applying metadata. Aside from this big savings in production time, MetaTagger also delivers complete, consistent, and accurate metadata, which boosts performance in your search, portal and eCommerce applications. How much is that worth to your bottom line?

Next Steps

If you're just starting to evaluate a new content management initiative, you should take the time now to understand your processes and cost structure. This will make it easier to conduct a ROI analysis that you can support with your senior management.