<p>Last week I wrote about finding a better way to use sync technologies so that all employees can access the information they need, on the device they choose. What if instead of sync, you gave everyone direct access from their mobile devices to the latest versions of corporate documents? This is a new frontier in productivity: mobile access to enterprise content management (ECM) systems.</p><p>Do your corporate documents live within an ECM system? If so, you're not alone. Enterprises and government agencies around the world use ECM systems to store and internally share files. Because ECMs securely manage and create workflows, they have become the favorite storage site of valuable corporate documents. However, their lack of mobile integration is a great headache for enterprise IT organizations, and, as I mentioned above, a new frontier in mobile productivity.</p><p>The first companies to announce a solution to the problem of how to make the documents in ECM systems available to mobile and external users were public cloud storage vendors. Their solution was straightforward: move the documents you want to share externally to our cloud, and voila! Your documents are no longer locked in behind your company's firewall.</p><p>While this solution makes documents accessible by mobile devices and external users, there are huge security and data sovereignty issues with this 'fix.' It also wreaked havoc on version control and workflows that were automatically established within an ECM system.</p><p><a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/contentdocument-management/22742/get-your-enterprise-content-safely-hands-your-mobile-workers">Keep reading...</a></p>