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Keep your finger on the pulse of Intelligent Information Management with industry news, trends, and best practices.
According to our in-house analyst, Doug Miles, "Offices are at last using less paper. Although still growing in 27% of organizations, in 39%, paper usage is finally starting to fall. However, the strongest drivers for scanning and capture are not savings on paper storage space but improved searchability and knowledge sharing, followed by productivity improvements in document-centric business processes. Nearly 40% of the organizations surveyed reported investment payback within 12 months of implementing systems. We also compare strategies for outsourcing, centralized scanning, and distributed scanning, and look at levels of capture integration with other enterprise systems."
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Data Management | Intelligent Information Management (IIM)
Adapted from Information-Driven Business: How to Manage Data and Information for Maximum Advantage, by Robert Hillard. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Reprinted with permission. Everyone recognizes the need to get more value from their information assets. The following are eight things for an Information-Driven Business to consider.
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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.
Over the last few months, AIIM has gathered hundreds of product ratings from industry professionals and users of Capture software. We will make the results available in a report we are developing with well-known industry analyst Harvey Spencer.
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Cloud | Document Management | Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
1. Reduction in Paper Santa receives millions and millions of letters each year and has always done his part when it comes to recycling. However, an online document management system that accepts uploaded letters and stores emails will take Santa’s green initiatives one step further by eliminating the need for paper altogether. The cumulative impact on reducing global warming will make the polar bears very happy!
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With the explosion of content in the enterprise, findability has become a major concern for most organizations. Tens of millions of documents can be scattered between multiple file systems, databases and content management applications. Each application has a different access method and no common interface exists for a user who needs a piece of knowledge to get their job done. Putting all of this content in a common location and providing an interface to find this data is the job of enterprise search.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Enterprise Content Management has become a critical strategic business process, due in part to increasingly stringent legislation and aggressive litigation. To meet this challenge, some organizations take a do-it-yourself approach, letting their in-house IT department build an ECM system from scratch or using ostensibly cheap tools. Inevitably, this only complicates matters and leads to greater expense with an inordinate amount of time spent on research and development, testing and debugging, and on-going support. When ECM is viewed as a technology system and managed as an IT project rather than as a management-led information governance initiative, the resulting implementation may lack the necessary security features and functionality to ensure regulatory compliance and discovery protection.
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