The AIIM Blog
Keep your finger on the pulse of Intelligent Information Management with industry news, trends, and best practices.
If we were to believe everything we hear in the press, then all computing and data storage is moving to the cloud — and quickly! The reality, though, is more nuanced. Firstly, there is no singular cloud; instead, there are hundreds of clouds to choose from. Secondly, not everything is moving to the cloud, and even the stuff that is is moving slowly. The world of Information Management has been somewhat slow and reluctant to move to the cloud, and often with good reason.
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Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
I’ve been involved in some way or another in the world of business process automation (BPM) for over twenty years. I was the author of AIIM’s first BPM training course back in 2006. I’m a big fan of the idea of reengineering business processes, but there is no getting away from the fact that BPM projects are complex and scary – they require buy-in from the top (which is always difficult) and are seldom inexpensive undertakings.
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Blockchain is the hot topic of the IT industry – the explosive and rapid growth of BitCoin has taken the obscure technology of distributed ledgers into mainstream consciousness. But the question we want to ask is, “Does Blockchain have a role to play in Information Management? Does it have a role beyond cryptocurrencies?”
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Capture and Imaging | Intelligent Information Management (IIM)
In a recent AIIM Industry Watch survey - State of Intelligent Information Management: Getting Ahead of the Digital Transformation Curve - I asked this question: “Agree or Disagree: Digitizing and standardizing business inputs is one of the key bottlenecks for Digital Transformation.” The results are clear: Information chaos needs to be tackled at its origins.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Machine Learning
These days it feels almost impossible to have a conversation with anyone involved in the world of Information Management without bringing up machine learning and artificial intelligence. Everyone is talking about it; everyone has an opinion; everyone claims to be doing it— or at least thinking about doing it. AI is part of the popular zeitgeist, entering our lives in the form of autonomous vehicles on our roads, Alexa in our homes, and a burgeoning AI arms race between rival world powers. Yet despite all the talk, no one really seems to agree on what its real impact will be. In fact, everyone seems to have a different definition of what ‘it’ even is. There are those telling us it’s nothing new, and its potential is over-hyped, while others tell us that AI and Machine Learning will make us all redundant.
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Accounting and Finance | Automation
AP Automation is an obtainable goal in this century, in this decade, this year! In fact, companies like Pepsi are already doing it. How may you ask? If you can relate to this stat from recent AIIM research where 52% of respondents say their invoice processes take at least three days – some up to as many as 25 days – when using manual solutions for invoice data entry, validation, and approval using paper, you are a prime candidate. So, where to start?
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