Archiving vs ECM for Canadian public sector

Archiving vs. ECM: What Canadian Public Sector Needs to Know

Dear friends, Canadian public sector organizations modernizing SAP environments often face a question that sounds straightforward, but usually isn’t. They need to control storage growth, retain records properly, respond to audits, legal obligations, and access-to-information requests, and still give staff a way to work with information quickly and confidently. So if SAP-connected content can already be archived, why would a public sector organization also need Enterprise Content Management? It’s a fair question, and I’m seeing many leaders wrestle with it because archiving and ECM both sit close to the SAP conversation, but they solve very different operational problems. ...

March 13, 2026 · 5 min · 901 words · Michael