Micro Content Management and MS Office - Step 1
Few days ago I met a new and very interesting buzzword "Micro Content Management" by reading the article named Smart Content Objects Management (Hebrew only) from Mr. Yair Dembinsly, VP Project Manager of Byon IT Solutions.
The best definition I found into the internet is the follow, Micro Content Management Systems designed to extract the maximum potential value from the content.
But what means the maximum potential value, in case of MS Word document – the worldwide dominant unstructured content environment and how to get this value?
Let's start with a little sample, when I receive the document from the customers with functional requirements, I'm starting the regular process which includes writing solution and estimation for each requirement. The results will be found in different information environments, like other documents, mails and professional systems. At this point organization starts loose the money.
The only right way to run requirement processing correctly, is when the both sides, the customer and the supplier will stay working on the source requirement paragraph into the source content environment. This way will guarantee to reduce critical data looses and human mistakes and will really extract and increase the value of the content or the part of the content.
Today, MS Word and Google Docs haven't this ability out of the box, but I think it will be the next step of the content editors' evolution. This will upgrade the document from content container to integral part of professional systems like requirements management, compliance, auditing & reporting, contracts & legal and other professional systems.
In Mr's Dembinsky article we can read that Micro Content Management concept implemented in Israeli IDF project named "Bina va dat", when KCS with its Generica Pro product taking an active part.