Hybrid Enterprise Content Management and Cloud Computing

Much like data warehouses and business intelligence, content management is as well a fit candidate for the cloud, especially in a hybrid delivery model.

This model facilitates business users to search the document attributes using several combinations earlier they retrieve the actual document itself.

The actual document itself is viewed

As this metadata is repeatedly searched much more frequently than the actual document itself is viewed, it is only ideal that the metadata store is kept inside the 'Premises'. As well the creation of metadata is much more real time in line with the underlying business processes.

PaaS platforms like Windows Azure and its offshoot SharePoint Online are ideal for storing the documents in the cloud