ECM is an acronym for Enterprise Content Management which is a software vertical that puts Content Management prinicples into a single, platform or framework.

Anybody in business knows that there is a lot of information to collect, create, store, delete, and in general manage. There are financial reports, budgets, marketing collateral, advertising material, manuals, minutes, letters, faxes, pictures, audio and visual media ... and really that just scratches the surface. An ECM platform or framework is intended to place the management, storage, and retrevial of all that information under common control and identification.

Content Management is really about classification and categorization of data and then having rules about how to treat that data based upon the classifications and categorizations. Content Management is the basis behind the power of GATE Village.