“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”. David Gould, Senior Director, Secure Content Management Solutions at Micro Focus, used the famous Mark Twain quote to open his session on the future of the ECM platform formerly known as TRIM at Realize 2019, the company’s annual user forum.

Most organizations will fail to realize the full value of new financial application purchases because they are not accounting for digital capabilities that they will require in the future, according to Gartner, Inc.

When cloud-based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) came into the mainstream in the mid-2000s, businesses began digitizing old analogue processes and migrating content from local machines and on-premises repositories to the cloud. As the world of digital content grew, ECM providers deployed a variety of ways to sort and segment proprietary or sensitive content.

A fundamental shift is occurring in the global economy with respect to data. As it stands, only 30% of the global economy has been digitised, but 5G wireless networks and other high- speed telecommunications solutions will enable the digitisation of the remaining 70%, driving huge increases in data generation.