The AIIM Blog

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

Blog Feature

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.

Read More

Blog Feature

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.

Read More

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.

Blog Feature

Certified Information Professional (CIP)

Martyn Christian from Kofax on the Certified Information Professional

We recently sat down with Martyn Christian, Chief Marketing Officer of Kofax to discuss information management and the impact certification can have on one's career. Martyn's responsible for all of Kofax's marketing initiatives, including brand, product, industry and field marketing functions. He has more than 25 years of marketing and general management experience within the software industry.

Read More

Blog Feature

Intelligent Information Management (IIM)  |  Mobile

Becoming a Process Revolutionary: 8 Things Walgreens Did Exactly Right

My story begins with this series of pictures, taken 27 years ago. At the time, this seemed like a cool idea for a Mother's Day gift, and maybe one that would begin a bit of a tradition.

Read More

Blog Feature

Certified Information Professional (CIP)

The Number of Information Professionals Needed Will Grow by 50% Per Year

A new Gartner report by Deb Logan and Mark Raskino -- Prepare to be an Information Leader -- notes that the first half of the Information Age was all about building plumbing and making processes more efficient and that the second value is all about creating value from the information these processes produce. They further note that organizations "must acquire new skills to meet these challenges."

Read More

Blog Feature

Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Mobile

Which Are People More Likely to Own - a Cell Phone or a Toothbrush?

It seems like only yesterday that the IPhone first appeared. It's hard to believe how long the iPhone - and all the sons of iPhones for those initially held in Verizon and Sprint purgatory - have been with us. NOT! Believe it or not, it's been less than 5 years. A blink of an eye.

Read More