ERM software architectures are often overlooked when organizations are evaluating and purchasing ERM software products. While most ERM software products provide a common base of records management functionality, it is their architectures, not their incremental functional differences, which have the greatest impact upon the overall success of an implementation.

Paying attention to an ERM product?s architecture provides insight into how the product will work within the enterprise environment. Understanding what advantages and disadvantages are associated with the product?s architecture can help in setting strategy for software implementation. An ERM software product?s architecture may actually determine what is possible, at a specific cost and within a specific time frame.

This session?s objective is to provide participants with a simple framework for understanding architecture models prevalent in today?s ERM software products and the implications each model has for business strategy, information technology, and risk response.

Participants will learn:

• The components of ERM software architecture
• The four major categories of architecture commonly used in ERM software products
• The implications that architecture decisions have for records management, IT and legal (i.e., the major constituents of electronic records projects)

This tutorial will help you better determine what software is "right" for your organization.