COSI specializes in Enterprise Content and Knowledge Management. On a day-to-day basis, COSI consultants develop strategy, architect and implement solutions, and shepherd Content Management projects through organizations in the Fortune 500. COSI offers the following core CMS services:

• Development of ECM Strategy/Architecture
• ECM Systems Development
• Web Content Management
• Content Migration

And while the theory of content management and the digital content lifecycle is the foundation for our work, it is our experience that is the true value-add to your organization. At each content management maturity level there are common challenges, and in each implementation there are pitalls that can be avoided by simply having COSI expertise available.

Our CMS expertise spans these platforms:

• Documentum
• Microsoft Sharepoint
• Alfresco
• Filenet
• Vignette
• Interwoven

ECM Strategy/Architecture

One of the most critical points in an Enterprise Content Management project is the plan for long-term adoption and implementation. Many project fail because of lack of vision, while others fail because of the inability to discern the difficulty of technical integration.

COSI's experience runs from inception to implementation, and we use that experience to guide our customers through common pitfalls and challenges.

ECM Systems Development

COSI consultants have designed, developed, and integrated solutions into every level of an enterprise architecture which gives them a broad perspective when it comes to systems development. But our consultants are also subject matter experts on specific platforms, which guarantees that our clients receive the expertise that they expect from COSI.

Web Content Management

Managing web content has becoming increasingly difficult over the last few years because of the sheer volume of information that organizations must publish. Some organizations are driven by regulation and auditing to publish in a timely manner, while others use web publishing as a strategic advantage or relationship building tool.

COSI understands the business and technical forces required to edit and maintain web content in an auditable, secure, scalable, reusable, and user-friendly manner. We have assisted many of our customers in the transition from ad-hoc publishing to controlled systems, and each time our customers are estatic about the benefits they have received. Global changes in content and layout can be made almost effortlessly by business users, which is in stark contrast to the manual process employed by most organizations.

Content Migration

Content Migration is a very important facet of most legacy and integration ECM projects. Whether it is content from a shared network drive that needs to be put into the CMS, consolidation of multiple sources into a unified system, or data movement from a legacy CMS, the principles remain the same.

In each of these cases, the ability to synchronize and validate between systems is critical to a production level solution. COSI has witnessed too many migration scripts developed by customers who needed a quick fix. These scripts may "work", but end up costing the business more when content is missing, metadata spot checks show inconsistencies, and lack of proper validation destroys confidence in the data accuracy.