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Document Management | Enterprise Content Management (ECM) | Intelligent Information Management (IIM)
The possibilities for more information chaos surround us. Content is proliferating at geometric rates, and organizations and the people who work in them are struggling with massive amounts of information overload. The sheer volume of content and data entering our organizations is growing in complexity, volume, and variety.
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Brexit, presidential campaign follies, the Olympics and disruption déjà vu. I was in London during the Brexit debates and heard a lot of "interesting" things about trade during those debates. Coming home, I and the rest of the world have obviously witnessed a lot of irrational pontifications in the context of our own presidential election about trade and jobs and disruption.
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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.
Just a reminder, that World Paper Free Day is November 4th! That means it's just around the corner! Until then, here are eight paper-free nuggets to get the juices flowing from our latest research, Paper-Free Progress: Measuring Outcomes.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM) | Intelligent Information Management (IIM)
For many years, I’ve watched people in organizations that I KNOW could benefit from content technologies politely listen to sales presentations, nod their heads, and then back away from a decision. I find this “reluctance to commit” mysterious because most of the people that I’ve spoken with who have automated a previously paper-driven process swear by the results and wouldn’t return to life pre-content management for anything.
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Many organizations continue to find themselves in a state of struggle when implementing SharePoint. However, all indications suggest that initially, it is not the fault of the technology, but the failure of the organization to properly address information governance prior to implementing the technology. SharePoint will not automatically organize information in ways that meet compliance requirements, as it is not and cannot be aware of the requirements. It is the human element of a SharePoint environment that must know and understand the rules, set up the framework for the organization, and then align SharePoint to support those requirements and policies.
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Analytics | Big Data | Capture and Imaging
Last year, Gartner created quite a stir by retiring the “Big Data” Hype Cycle from its popular “Hype” curve series. According to Betsy Burton at Gartner, “We’ve retired the big data hype cycle. I know some clients may be really surprised by that because the big data hype cycle was a really important one for many years. But what’s happening is that big data has quickly moved over the Peak of Inflated Expectations and has become prevalent in our lives across many hype cycles. So big data has become a part of many hype cycles.”
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