Aspen's ECM team is well versed in the many tools and technologies available to help clients with their ECM challenges. The IT world is in a constant state of flux with new technologies, applications and platforms being developed and evolving all the time. In this ever-changing environment application development managers and CIOís need to eliminate as much risk as possible. It is in these environments that Aspen ís unbiased process analysis and tools recommendations are needed. Most organizations must manage or support complex multiplatform applications that span the enterprise, including the mainframe server and managing these processes without robust ECM solutions can be a daunting task. Additionally, the teams working on complex, multi-tiered projects may be deployed around the world to take advantage of follow-the-sun development. For example, at the end of their day, a team in Texas hands off its development projects to a team in Singapore , who then turns it over to a third team in the UK , and that group turns it over to a team in California and so on. In order to take advantage of such follow-the-sun development organizations must have robust ECM processes and procedures in place. Failure to have such processes and procedures in place can not only negate any advantage gained by follow-the-sun development but also can have catastrophic consequences. Aspen ís ECM experts are there to help ensure that your ECM implementation has the robust processes and procedures required to protect your organization. Aspen's experience with Version Control, Change Tracking, Configuration Management, Build Management, Concurrent Development, Lifecycle Management and broad vendor partnerships allow Aspen to be in a unique position to help organizations maximize their ECM capabilities and protect not only their organizational integrity but the very intellectual capital they work so hard to develop.