The GiantSteps white paper, Enterprise Content Integration and the Digital Object Identifier: A Business Case for Information Publishers, shows how Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) improves upon traditional digital asset management at the enterprise level of large, diversified content companies. The 25-page paper contains:

• A description of and motivation for the ECI architecture combined with DOI support, showing how ECI differs from traditional digital asset management.
• An explanation of how the DOI-enabled ECI approach achieves many of the benefits of enterprise digital asset management at a fraction of the cost.
• A series of business scenarios showing financial benefits from DOI-enabled ECI implementation, with suggestions on how they apply to various segments of the content industries and how they can be combined into business cases for ECI.

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