The AIIM Blog

Keep your finger on the pulse of Intelligent Information Management with industry news, trends, and best practices.

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Content Services  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

And the ECM Successor Award Goes to – Content Services…No That’s Not It!

2016 was certainly a year of radical change. At the macro-political level, we witnessed the “ouster of the incumbents” with first the Brexit vote in June and then the U.S. Presidential election in November. In the sports arena, the insurgents triumphed, and two teams with a collective 176 years of frustrated championship expectations battled for the World Series. PokemonGo swept the world and led to a host of injuries when enthusiastic participants careened into each other and into stationary objects whilst staring at their screens. Alexa Echo Dots began appearing on every imaginable surface, listening ...listening... listening. And perhaps because of the need to be silent in the face of all of this listening, silent Mannequin Challenges became all the rage.

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

The Cost of Standing Still: Top 6 Reasons to Renovate Legacy ECM

Your legacy Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system has been a reliable part of your organization for years. It was cutting edge when it was implemented. But how do you know when it’s no longer flexible enough to help your business meet its vision and strategic goals?

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14 Steps to a Successful ECM Implementation

Making an ECM implementation successful requires planning and attention to detail. The best way to create the right solution is to identify organizational goals and priorities. Learn how to manage a successful implementation in our free guide.

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Content Migration  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

4 ECM Detours and the Need for Content Migration

The term Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has been with us for 15 years. It hasn’t been a perfect term, and perhaps in truth has been better suited as a description of a strategy than as a description for a set of IT tools and technologies.

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Data Management  |  Document Management  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

Connecting the Dots between Documents, Content, and Data

Since the 1980s, relational databases have been used to store business information. They were a huge step forward over hierarchical databases, which organized data into rigid tree-like structures with connections between data elements defined by the links in the structures.

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Digital Transformation  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

Digital Transformation and the Role of ECM (or Whatever We Wind Up Calling It!)

Digital is changing people and organizations, not only in terms of technological opportunities, but also in how people think about technology and its role in their lives. It’s no longer people who adapt to technology – rather, technology adapts to us.

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Content Services  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Information Governance

6 Personal Observations about ECM and Content Services

Last week, we did a webinar on Next Gen Information Management – Succeeding in a New Era. The focus was our new white paper designed to start a conversation about the content management space -- Revolution or Evolution? 10 Strategies to Navigate the Shift from ECM to Content Services.

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