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Capture and Imaging

7 Reasons to Fear Free Puppies and Bundled Scanning Applications

We’ve all been there. There’s a pile of cute, fluffy, wriggling puppies in a crate. You lift one out for a quick cuddle. It licks you. It loves you. In minutes you grow to love the puppy back. Looking up, you see the sign… “Free puppies.” OMG, it can’t get any better than this! The transaction is completed, and you are now the happy owner of a free puppy, with whom you are in love. As you are walking away, the puppy purveyor reminds you to “get it to the vet for its shots.”

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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)  |  Productivity

How to Improve Digital Productivity?

Many corporations waste their IT budgets on the “T" instead of benefiting from the “I" in IT. Information can be used to reduce costs, manage risks, add value, or even create a "blue ocean" opportunity. Let me therefore give you two ways you can change the game and make a dent in the universe.

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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 Search

7 Must Knows about Search and Findability

These seven benchmarking statistics are drawn from a recent research titled "Search and Discovery: Exploiting Knowledge, Minimizing Risk." We surveyed 415 information professionals from organizations of all sizes. Larger organizations over 5,000 employees represent 30%, and mid-sized organizations of 500 to 5,000 employees 35%. Small-to-mid sized organizations with 10 to 500 employees constitute 35%. 67% of the participants are from North America, and 18% from Europe.

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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

What Does the Next Generation of Information Leaders Look Like?

As we’ve discussed before, we are in a world of rapid and accelerating change. Three major disruptive forces are accelerating the pace of change and driving organizations into information chaos: CONSUMERIZATION is transforming what users expect from applications and how we deliver them. We are now in the era of user-centric IT. CLOUD AND MOBILE are creating an expectation of anywhere, anytime access, and transforming how we engage with customers and employees. THE INTERNET OF THINGS is creating massive amounts of new data and information, creating enormous new challenges and opportunities.

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Sharepoint and Office 365

16 Questions (and Answers) about SharePoint and Office365

I recently did an open-mic webinar with Quentin Christensen and Andrew SanAgustin from Microsoft to answer questions from users about SharePoint. The Q&A flowed beyond the scope of the webinar, so I asked Quentin and Andrew if they could respond to some of the outstanding questions in this post. Here are the questions and their answers -- as usual, no endorsement implied -- and the perspective is theirs, not mine. The point of the post is simply to provide a conduit for the questions and give Quentin and Andrew a chance to give their take.

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Cloud  |  Compliance  |  Privacy

The Cloud and Pending European Data Protection Regulations

Data Protection laws and regulations across the EU govern the storage and processing of data that would allow an individual to be recognized. They are intended to address the risks around privacy and data loss and to provide a framework for good information governance. The development of public, private, government, and hybrid cloud computing services has created a challenge to on-premise data storage and processing, and thus created uncertainty regarding responsibilities of the respective organizations regarding data protection and data privacy. The European Union is soon to implement the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will bring all 27 countries under a single regime of rules, and penalties for breach. AIIM regards this as an opportunity for cloud providers to deliver EU-wide services under a single operations model. However, providers and users need to be aware of the current legislative challenges. The purpose of a new AIIM white paper -- Making sense of European Data Protection Regulations as they relate to the storage and management of content in the Cloud – is to inform end-users of the current and potential future legislative landscape in Europe regarding data protection and data privacy. This will enable end-user organizations to make risk-based decisions about cloud versus on-premise content storage. This will also allow them to evaluate providers of cloud services to ensure that they will stay compliant with applicable law.

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