The AIIM Blog

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

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Information Security  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

8 Ways Your Organization Can Improve Efficiency, Increase Productivity, and Reduce Risk

Why You Need an Information Strategy For many years, organizations have survived by "winging it" when it comes to information management.

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Cloud  |  Document Management  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

My Favorite 2010 ECM and Technology Predictions

I'm a big fan of all those year/decade retrospectives and year/decade prediction lists that appear this time of year. Just for fun - and to keep what we do in the content, document, and records space in a bit of perspective - here on the left side of this post is the Google predictive text for "2010 predictions." So I guess we have a bit of a way to go before our industry is top of mind. Hey, there's a big surprise! Before venturing into my own (modest) predictions in a future post, here are a few I really found intriguing -- by people way smarter than me.

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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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Capture and Imaging  |  Document Management

8 Things You Need to Know about Automating Document Indexing

1. Choose Your Battles Just because you have purchased a great new scanning/capture/data entry automation application doesn't mean that it makes sense to automate every type of document under the sun. Sure, you may feel empowered to spend the time or money required to automate the indexing of that quarterly report that is generated only four times per year, but that would be analogous to hunting for quail with a bazooka. Make sure that you look at the feasibility and return on investment before jumping into projects. Always take the automation projects with the highest & fastest ROI first and pass on the low or negative net present value projects.

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Digital Signatures

8 Tips for Selecting a Digital Signature Solution

As the traditional “paper-based” world gives way to digital documentation and transactions, enterprises are demanding innovative solutions for digitally signing and authenticating such documents, files, and forms with iron-clad protection against forgery. Solutions must guarantee non-repudiation and promise the same level of security and trust that exists with conventional documentation. At the same time, such a solution should be simple to use, easy to deploy, and offer a rapid return on investment. With the rise of global digital businesses, transactions and documents may need to be signed by many people in different parts of the world. Users should be able to sign documents directly from their desktop or via a zero technology footprint using any web browser.

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Sharepoint and Office 365

8 Ways SharePoint 2010 Moves Toward "ECM for the Masses"

Microsoft recently released the beta version of SharePoint 2010. From a content management perspective, their goal was to provide “ECM for the Masses." But what exactly does that mean, and how does Microsoft expect to achieve it? I spent time over the last few months test driving the beta, and the technical preview versions with an eye toward “ECM for the Masses.” Here are eight ways SharePoint 2010 is bringing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) into the mainstream:

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

8 Things That You Should Know about Open Source 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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