The AIIM Blog
Keep your finger on the pulse of Intelligent Information Management with industry news, trends, and best practices.
Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
1. You Can Get Started on an ECM Project – NOW. Need to get an ECM project moving now--even if you don't have much budget today? Open source ECM offerings let companies get started with early requirements research, prototyping, and piloting just with a simple download and installation. In the spirit of community, of transparency, of truly believing that ECM is a critical platform for any customer in the 21st-century knowledge economy, open-source ECM vendors actually want you to get moving forward on a project.
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Capture and Imaging | Sharepoint and Office 365
SharePoint is making inroads as an ECM or Records Management system, primarily because of its document library features, price, and integration with Office. But, for SharePoint to move beyond that and become the system to do document-centric transactional processing, you’ll need to customize and plan your SharePoint installation more carefully.
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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.
Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
In the later part of 2008, OASIS announced the formation of a committee to develop the Content Management Interoperability Standard (CMIS), designed to standardize a web services interface specification that will enable interoperability of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems. EMC, IBM, and Microsoft lead the way by developing the initial draft for the standard. Other ECM vendors such as Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle, and SAP reviewed the draft and provided comments before advancing the standard through the standardization process. Here are eight reasons why CMIS will transform the ECM industry:
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It used to be that a company-wide collaboration strategy was a nice-to-have. No more. Now, it’s a strategic necessity. Even in the current economic climate, 37 percent of organizations surveyed in Forrester's Q4 2008 enterprise and SMB software survey consider implementing a collaboration strategy important in 2009. What’s driving the collaboration wave? Forrester sees two broad trends driving this: there is a critical need to drive information worker efficiency and to manage the unstructured content artifacts they produce and, while the value of improved collaboration is clear, the path to success has become more complex. Collaboration strategies today need to encompass a broad array of organizational and technical criteria. The potential benefits can be substantial, and the risk associated with poor management of collaborative content and communication artifacts can be costly.
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Capture and Imaging | Document Management | Sharepoint and Office 365
1. Do you need a scanning application or a capture application? The marketplace is filled with applications that provide a means to convert paper to digital form, and I like to divide the offerings into two distinct silos: scanning applications and capture applications. If all you need to do is load paper and scan to a document library, and your volume is fairly light, scanning applications provide a simple, easy to use interface for these types of operations. Capture applications focus on efficiency, standardization, and automation. They provide enhanced feature sets like 2D barcode reading, zone OCR, data extraction, enhanced backend integration, and more. There is a gray area between the two silos, as most scanning applications have some basic capture features. Choose wisely young Luke Skywalker, and if you can, select an application that can live in both silos.
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Capture and Imaging | Enterprise Search | Sharepoint and Office 365
There are many methods of capture and search that have been refined to allow users to find the right information they're looking for in traditional document management. Below are eight methods that are useful in SharePoint. Some of them are common to all document management systems, and some are specific to SharePoint.
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