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

How Are You Preparing for the Changes in Content Management?

Looking back over the past 15 years since its inception, what ECM means within our industry has radically changed. Today we know that successful ECM implementation is less about technology and more about the convergence of people and processes with technological tools.

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Analytics  |  Big Data

11 Facts You Didn’t Know about Content Analytics and Big Data

We've seen increasing interest and adoption in recognition and routing of inbound content, automated classification of records and email, metadata addition and correction, and all of the improvements in access, security, de-duplication, and retention that flow from this. But content analytics can offer so much more than this, with many applications and uses yet to come, and by 2020 will be one of the primary tools used by any enterprise. Here are eleven facts you might not have known about content analytics, taken from AIIM's latest research - Content Analytics: automating processes, and extracting knowledge. Enjoy!

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

3 Lessons from the Wright Brothers about Content Management

I recently read David McCullough’s The Wright Brothers. Before delving into my curious connection between the Wright Brothers and content management, let me put my reviewer hat on – it’s a very good book. I’ve always had an interest in the Wright Brothers for many reasons, but especially because their breakthrough occurred on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, one of my favorite places in the world. Also, true confessions, I was a history major.

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Metadata  |  Taxonomy

3 Things an IKEA Dresser Can Teach Us about Content Management

Last weekend, we moved my daughter up to New York City. She started a job today as a nurse at Columbia Presbyterian hospital, and the apartment is on 10th Avenue a bit north of the Port Authority (pizza place on one side of the door, Irish bar on the other, Dunkin Donut down the block – what’s not for me to like?). My wife and I are alternately very proud and terrified of her accomplishment and move. Mostly the former. Her place is in the middle of the picture below by the pride flag.

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

8 Things You Need to Know about ECM in Europe

Here are eight benchmarketing statistics from our latest research on the adoption of Enterprise Content Management in Europe

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

Be honest. How do YOU get around your organization's outdated systems and policies?

I was recently talking to an AIIM member about accessing documents related to a project that we were both working on. So this will not be viewed as some sort of tacit endorsement, I’ll leave the name of the vendor out, but it’s a significant player in the enterprise sync and share space. I’ll also leave out the name of the AIIM member so he/she won’t get into trouble!

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