The AIIM Blog

Keep your finger on the pulse of Intelligent Information Management with industry news, trends, and best practices.

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Sharepoint and Office 365

What CEOs Should Know about Microsoft SharePoint

We just published a new Industry Watch Report titled, “The SharePoint Puzzle – Adding the missing pieces.” The study, based on the responses from 551 organizations, identified a lack of expertise, lack of strategic plans, and resistance from users as the top three most prevalent business issues associated with SharePoint. But despite these concerns, most organizations are planning to increase or maintain the level of SharePoint spend on internal development, integration to other repositories, training, add-ons, hardware, services and licenses over the next 12 months.

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Information Governance

More than You Ever Wanted to Know about Information Governance

Gartner defines information governance as: "the specification of decision rights and an accountability framework to ensure appropriate behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archiving and deletion of information. It includes the processes, roles and policies, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information in enabling an organization to achieve its goals." In a nutshell, information can be one of our greatest assets - the fuel that drives our business and its processes. But, it can also be a liability. Information Governance takes into account that in today’s business environment, mere management is not enough. Regulatory compliance and legal requirements – combined with the enormous growth of information has created the need to go beyond management and implement information governance. There are a host of governance categories that need to be addressed as you build your information management strategy. Below, we'll cover the key considerations for some of the top areas in need of governance: Content Governance Classification Governance Functional Governance Security Governance Retention Governance

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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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Information Governance  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

Extreme Information, Surviving a Derecho, and Cleaning Out My Mother-in-Law’s House

Those of you who have been following this blog for some time know of my tendency to "find" information management "lessons" in everyday experiences (witness, for example, my post on Walgreens as a Process Revolutionary). Well, I've got to tell you, the past few days have been loaded with lessons on the challenges we face in the Era of Extreme Information.

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Sharepoint and Office 365

5 Myths about SharePoint Content Protection

A CIO recently said to me, “SharePoint? What a security nightmare…”At first, I was taken aback – SharePoint can be a great tool for CIO’s looking to protect content. But having worked with SharePoint content for years, I know the protections that are in place automatically – and the ones that fit into the current workflow– to help organizations embrace secure collaboration.

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Archiving  |  Social Media

Archiving External Social Activity: 14 Solutions That Might Help

One of the issues I spend some time worrying about is how to balance my enthusiasm for social technologies with the very real concerns that exist as organizations consider the control and compliance realities.

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Data Management

7 Reasons to Break Your Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Addiction

In many cases, hundreds of millions of records can be handled with split-second response times, especially when dealing with aggregate queries on modern hardware. But today, a considerable number of organizations are clinging to 90s ETL technology. ETL seems to be an addiction for IT organizations because they still consider millions of records a lot of data. But having more memory than data may allow for these organizations to have their cake and eat it too. And today, getting to this point is dirt-cheap.

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