21 Jan 2005

Computer World Canada - As the assistant director of Academic Technology at Montreal’s Concordia University, Aaron Brauer concedes that building a business case for enterprise content management (ECM) involves a variety of intangibles. But since the university’s new content management system (CMS) now enables Concordia to access electronic information in minutes — that which used to take hours, even days — Brauer wouldn’t have it any other way.

With over 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students and more than 400 faculty members, Concordia stores a lot of data. In the dean’s office of the faculty of Arts and Sciences alone, Brauer notes that between workload letters, contracts, sabbatical applications and performance review and curriculum vitae, the school stores approximately one million pages of faculty dossiers.

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