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This chapter will give you an overview of ECM and the motivation for using the Nuxeo platform in your next ECM project.
According to the AIIM, the Association for Information and Image Management, ECM is defined as "the technologies used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes".
A March 2005 white paper on “The Hidden Costs of Information Work” by the IDC in the United States found that the average office employee spent approximately one day per week organizing and filing documents that they used. This can equate to a considerable amount of cost and inefficiency. A further twelve hours was spent on managing document approval, managing document routing and publishing to other channels. Nine hours was spent searching for documents.
Nuxeo EP 5 is the 5th version of the open source platforms developed by Nuxeo (the four previous ones where known as "CPS").
Nuxeo EP or "Enterprise Platform" is the server part of Nuxeo EP 5. It is a Java EE application intended to run in a standard Java EE 5 application server like JBoss. It can be accessed by end users from a web browser, from office productivity suites like MS-Office or OpenOffice.org, or from rich client developed using the Nuxeo RCP technology (see below).
Nuxeo RCP or "Rich Client Platform" is a platform for building rich client applications, that usually connect to a Nuxeo EP server.
Nuxeo EP and Nuxeo RCP run on top of a common runtime, "Nuxeo Runtime", and share a common set of core components, called "Nuxeo Core".