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Keep your finger on the pulse of Intelligent Information Management with industry news, trends, and best practices.
Content Migration | Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Never have the risks of disruption – and the rewards of nimbleness and agility and creativity -- been higher. SaaS solutions to enterprise problems – with far fewer aches and pains to business types -- have swept through corporate America. For years, Boomers had the benefit of numbers – after all, they still represented the majority of the workforce and dominated the C-Level within organizations. By 2020, those pesky Gen X, Y, and Z folks will be 80% of the workforce. The Boomers – and the institutional knowledge they have – will largely be gone.
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GDPR | Information Security | Privacy
Resistance is futile. A recent Gartner report estimates that by 2020 the number of connected devices such as sensors and wearables will reach 21 billion, up from 6.4 billion in 2016. Such an unprecedented level of connectedness is expected to transform virtually every facet of our lives, largely in beneficial ways.
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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.
Change is never easy and can be difficult and even downright frightening. A new process or technology being introduced can bring up thoughts of: How is this new process going to change what I do? Will the organization still need me with the new technology? The way we did this has worked, why should we change something that isn’t broken?
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Certified Information Professional (CIP)
I’m way too old for this! Seriously, do you know how long it’s been since I’ve taken a major exam?! Besides, I’m not a good test taker! These were just some of the excuses that were preventing me from taking the CIP exam. Well, apparently, I’m not too old, and I’m a better test taker than I expected. I recently took the CIP prep class at AIIM’s headquarters in Silver Spring, MD, took the exam, and I passed. Woo hoo!!!!
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
“Content is data in context.” Don’t quote me on that. I didn’t say it. I don’t know who said it. To be accurate, I should say that I don’t know who said it first. Lately, whenever I hear that statement, it’s in the form of “They say, content is data in context.”
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Compliance | GDPR | Privacy
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was ratified in 2016 and will be enforced in May 2018, requires companies to meet higher standards for the protection of personally identifiable information. As the deadline gets closer, many US corporations are wondering how GDPR will impact them.
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