ManagingInformationandRecordsinAnEnterprise·Chapter2 25 ECM solutions must support five key stages of the life of content: Creation and Capture, Collaboration and Review, Integration and Optimization, and Experience and Consumption-- underpinned by Records Retention and Archiving to meet electronic discovery and preservation requirements. The fundamental building blocks of an ECM strategy are document management, records management, document-centric workflow, content archiving, imaging, and application integration to many mainstream content authoring applications. These integrated components allow an organization to implement end-to-end content capture and management practices addressing the three universal requirements for success measurements: end user empowerment, business agility, and cost-and-risk reduction. Organizations with particular needs to extend these core components can often make use of integrated ECM extensions to support enhanced collaboration and Web content management, digital and rich media management, reporting and analytics, ERP solutions, portal integration, as well as the rich application integration layers often delivered by a Services Oriented Architecture technology stack. Empower Information Workers with Document Management Document management and records management form the cornerstone of Enterprise Content