The AIIM Blog

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

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Sharepoint and Office 365

The Problem with SharePoint: Technology or People?

I hear people from around the globe, complain about SharePoint that it doesn’t do this, or we thought it did that. Yet the AIIM Industry Watch Report titled “The Impact of SharePoint 2016” finds when it comes to SharePoint meeting organizational expectations, nearly half of our respondents are happy with SharePoint and the on-going product roadmap, with half also in agreement that SharePoint is providing good value for the cost.

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Digital Transformation

5 Examples of Digital Disruption: The Flip Side of Digital Transformation

I've been collecting examples of "Digital Disruption" -- the negative flip side of Digital Transformation. In other words, examples in which a well-entrenched incumbent just failed to see the writing on the wall.

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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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Capture and Imaging

Top 10 Mistakes Companies Make When Deploying a Document Scanning Solution (and How to Avoid Them)

I recently came across this white paper and rather liked the insights it provided in how to avoid mistakes in choosing a document scanning solution. Here’s a quick snapshot of the ten mistakes contained in the white paper.

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Digital Transformation  |  Paperless Office

Where to Start Your Digital Transformation: 20 Processes That Should Be Paper-Free

Simplicity is an undervalued commodity of modern business, and as seen through efforts to purge paper processes, simplicity has the potential to add real value to many organizations. Efforts to drive out paper are an essential foundation to creating a more simplified, user-friendly, and changeable enterprise, but these efforts must be supported by business technology, process, and leadership, which advocate the same. Most importantly, our mindset needs to change. Simplicity is often synonymous with lesser value. Often complex functionality is what attracts senior management interest and investment dollars to the cause; complex solutions take space at the head of board meetings, while simple solutions often only find room at the kids' table.

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Paperless Office

12 Steps to Take Right Now to Create Paperless Processes

The song of being paper-free has been sung since the early days of document imaging. As technologies have advanced and business organizations have come to realize the negative impact paper has on operational processes, getting rid of paper is fast becoming a possibility And while it may not be enterprise level, there are definite signs that departmentally, as seen in this report highlighting changes in HR and AP, businesses are making the transition to a paperfree business model.

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Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS)

Why Can’t Most Organizations Get Their Act Together on File Sharing Technologies?

Let's take a look at the policy environment (or lack thereof) that surrounds how most organizations use sync and share technologies. File sync and share are on the rise, yet there is still a cultural challenge and user reluctance slowing organizations from moving in this direction. While there are proven technologies available, 29% of our respondents cite concerns over security and unauthorized access to their information as a big challenge in implementing a file sync and share solution. For 19%, the challenge they face is a lack of understanding the full benefits file sync and share can bring to their organization, and for 20%, it is the cultural challenge related to change management, combining a lack of management support (12%), and user reluctance (8%).

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