Organizations need ECM systems for a variety of reasons. If one of those is retention for legal or regulatory reasons, you may think you need a vault or other system where the records can be saved in a write-once, read-many-times format. However, once information is in a vault, it is likely less accessible, forcing users to make tradeoffs between ease of access and collaboration versus content management and retention needs. New capabilities in existing platforms facilitate managing and retaining records “in place”—i.e. where they are stored during the normal course of business rather than in a separate vault.