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Capture and Imaging  |  Information Security

4 Risks from Antiquated Document Capture Systems

Despite all of the investments you're making at the macro level, despite all the efforts that your IT department is doing on your behalf, there's a gap in your information security systems, and it is in the unlikeliest of places - your document scanning and data capture systems. Your information on-ramp is leaving you vulnerable to the bad guys. A typical document imaging system is creating four major vulnerabilities that substantially increase the potential for data theft and violations of information management regulations.

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Capture and Imaging  |  Information Security

Increasing Security and Compliance Concerns for Document Capture

Think your scanned images are safe? Think again! As we begin 2016, the biggest threat to your business probably isn't the proverbial competitor down the street. It's someone who wants to take advantage of your corporate information. We know that a growing number of businesses and government entities have already become cyber war victims.

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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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AIIM Community  |  AIIM Conference

The AIIM Community Gives Back – Twice

We introduced something new to The AIIM Conference in 2016, an element of social responsibility. As the VP of Events here at AIIM, it was incredibly important to me that we give something to a charity local to our host city of New Orleans that our attendees had created.

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Electronic Records Management (ERM)  |  eDiscovery

How A&E Network Uses the E3 Method of Collaboration for eDiscovery

My role as the Director of Litigation Support and Records Management at the A&E Television Network is to get the word on records management out into the actual company so that everyone can start using those actual principles. At A&E, we have a tremendous amount of data that we are trying to go through. We are trying to reduce the scope of actual discovery and not expose ourselves to litigation risk.

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Certified Information Professional (CIP)  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

Disruptive Technologies Create a Need for Information Professionals

The Certified Information Professional (CIP) has come to represent a badge of competency and knowledge at the top of the knowledge worker pyramid for those entrusted with the task of building an information STRATEGY in a time of digital disruption. Broader than Records Management and Information Governance, Information Professionals are charged with these questions: Who owns the BIG PICTURE for how information is managed in our organization? Who owns our information management STRATEGY? Who can helps us treat information as the critical business asset it has become? The accelerating pace of Digital Disruption makes this role more important -- and different -- than ever. But before going there, how exactly is the emerging era of Digital Transformation different from where we are now?

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Certified Information Professional (CIP)  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

A Short History of Where Information Professionals Came From

Many people do not realize that AIIM was founded in 1943 as the National Microfilm Association. Many people are mystified about how an organizational journey could somehow begin in 1943 with microfilm, and wind up in 2016 with content and information management. So what is the connective tissue in this strange story? I think it boils down to 3 words: People, Process, and Technology.

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