The AIIM Blog

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

Blog Feature

Business Process Management (BPM)

Steps to Mapping, Testing, and Implementing a Process

This is an overview of what is involved when it comes to documenting how to automate your processes. Of course, the devil’s in the details, and certainly, this is not the only way, but after listening to and learning from hundreds of our industry’s best consultants and analysts (the benefit of producing so many webinars – I listen to them all), I think this is one approach for you to consider.

Read More

Blog Feature

Information Security  |  Privacy

Lions and Tigers and Facebook – Oh My!

Yep, that is what I hear these days, reminiscent of the scene from the Wizard of Oz when they are entering the forest, knowing that there are animals and possible danger hiding in the shadows. Yet they choose to enter anyway.

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

Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

What’s in an Event Name? – Reflections on Think2018

I was invited to attend the IBM Think 2018 event last week in Las Vegas. There were so many interesting aspects of the event, but most notable to me as someone who has attended multiple versions of this event over the years under multiple names (multiple event names, not my aliases) were: 1) the sheer scale of the event, and 2) the convergence of content and data.

Read More

Blog Feature

GDPR  |  Information Security  |  Privacy

Data Privacy and Open Data: Secondary Uses under GDPR

Consider this – over ninety percent of the world’s data, estimated to be a staggering sixteen zettabytes, was created in the past 5 to 6 years. And, it is estimated that by 2025 the world’s digital data will grow to one hundred and sixty-three zettabytes.

Read More

Blog Feature

Digital Transformation

An Exponential Moment and the Untapped Power of Incumbents

I was reflecting a bit on some of the themes raised by Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM, during her opening keynote at Think 2018 and their alignment with some of the concepts we at AIIM have been raising over the past year under the banner of Intelligent Information Management.

Read More

Blog Feature

Content Migration

Migration Is a Good Opportunity for Some Immediate Quality Wins

The movement to the cloud is past the tipping point. Cloud solutions are no longer a question of “should we?” but rather “when?” Organizations may not be ready to go 100% to the cloud, but for nearly 80% of organizations, cloud is a critical part of their strategy. Consider this data from a Fall 2017 AIIM survey of 182 end-user organizations:

Read More