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The emerging picture for big data analytics suggests that there is still a very high expectation for the potential value, and overall, early adopters are achieving good results that are helping to drive decision making in the business. But despite the fact that more trained practitioners have joined the ranks, there is still a skills shortage. Plus, the tools available are still considered hard to use and somewhat expensive. The overarching theme is that many organizations are too immature in their content management, search, and basic reporting to contemplate big content projects just yet, although they are making technology decisions today with a view to a big data future. AIIM's research study, "Big Data and Content Analytics -- Measuring the ROI," sought to find out more. Below, see the five key trends from the research project.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
A video session from The AIIM Conference, Moving from Content Silos to True Enterprise Services: TD Bank's Formula for Success.
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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.
Intelligent Information Management (IIM)
As many of you know, well-known futurist Thornton May (and a former AIIM Board Chair) is one of the keynote speakers at The AIIM Conference 2014 (April 1-4, in Orlando). Thornton is one of those keynote speakers you won’t forget – suffice it to say, he is not a shy person! I usually start my research for introductions at Conferences not by looking at all the boring CV/Resume data points about schools and jobs, but rather by looking at things a speaker has actually said and whether these things jar my conventional assumptions. With Thornton, there is no shortage of great quotes.
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Electronic Records Management (ERM) | Information Governance
Defensible disposition addresses the problem of over-retention -- organizations have been over-retaining electronic information and failing to dispose of it in a legally defensible manner when business and law will allow. The best way to address this monster problem is to break it into more tractable sub-problems: day-forward information disposition and historical informational disposition. I won’t go into a day-forward information disposition here, because it is an easier problem to solve. Let’s stipulate that it’s taken care of and focus on historical information disposition.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Simply put, we aren’t managing content; we are hoarding stuff. Stuff we think might have value, stuff we think we have to keep, and stuff we simply lost track of so long ago that we no longer know what it is. I have stuff like this in my inbox; you may have some of this stuff too. If you don’t, you don’t have to look very hard to find it. Maybe it’s in a shared drive; maybe it’s on your C: drive; maybe it’s still in a file cabinet; and maybe it’s already made its way into SharePoint.
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Technology changes what is possible. Every “age” has a feel, a zeitgeist. That zeitgeist is very much a function of the fact that every age has a defining technology. The age we are just now entering has four defining technologies – Social, Mobile, Analytics, & Cloud – the SMAC stack. The economics and ergonomics of experimentation have changed. It has never been easier – or more profitable – to do new things. To do new things require new modes of thought. That is why I advocate a “cognitive reboot.”
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