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title: How an Enterprise Content Management System Saves You Time and Money
description: Discover the ways that an Enterprise Content Management System can optimize the efficiency and budget of your organization.
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# [How an Enterprise Content Management System Saves You Time and Money](https://www.sumnerone.com/blog/how-an-enterprise-content-management-system-saves-you-time-and-money)

 Written by [Stephen Hughes](https://www.sumnerone.com/blog/author/stephen-hughes) | May 1, 2020 12:45:00 PM

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Systems enable organizations to save time and money by efficiently managing documents and information. By digitizing paper documents and automating document-driven processes, the right people get access to the correct information at the right time, simply and securely.

## Enterprise Content Management systems are used to manage the following processes:

- Document Capture – The process of importing all your information into a digital repository.
- **Secure Document Storage** - Easily store business-critical documents in a digital repository, and instantly view or make edits to them.
- **Full-Text Search & Retrieval** - Instantly find documents by identifying specific words or phrases within their text, metadata, annotations, and entry names.
- **Collaboration** - What happens when teams have access to the information they need? They work together better and more work gets completed. Built-in collaboration tools let people edit, update, and approve versions as they go – no more exchanging emails and waiting for approvals.
- **Automation of Business Processes** - Easily diagram the steps of a business process and automatically route documents to the right people at the right time.
- **Granular Document Security** - Take control of information across the enterprise by restricting access to folders, documents, electronic files, fields, annotations, and other granular document properties.
- **Digitally Capture, Route, and Approve Forms** - Replace paper forms with electronic forms to capture information and share it across the organization digitally.
- **Compliance** - Are you always focused on privacy – like HIPAA or FACTA – or information management like SOX? ECM systems have the controls you need – and deliver reports that make audits a breeze.

Gartner estimates that implementing an ECM system can result in savings of up to 40% on hard document-related costs. Laserfiche estimates that firms spend up to 20% less time filing and retrieving documents. One IDC study showed a five-year return on investment of 404% for ECM systems.

SumnerOne offers a variety of enterprise content management software from multiple leading, best-in-class brands. If you’d like to learn more and [explore whether an ECM solution](https://www.sumnerone.com/enterprise-print-solutions/enterprise-content-management) could help your organization, please [contact us today.](https://www.sumnerone.com/contact-us)

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