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Content Migration | Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Organizations have a decision to make relative to the large volume of documents in existing legacy systems. The challenge is that organizations may have millions of documents. Which should be moved and which should stay where they are? What can be safely archived or deleted? According to a Forrester survey, only 7% of organizations surveyed have migrated all content to new ECM systems. The vast majority – 87% – retain some or most legacy content remains in old systems. Updating your infrastructure to take advantage of the benefits of a more modern-cloud-based structure requires a content integration platform – and one that is flexible enough to evolve over time.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
How did we get here, and where do we go now? In the late 1990s, Enterprise Content Management became a mainstream technology (at least for large organizations) by first focusing on early adopters eager to automate high-value, mission-critical, and document-intensive processes critical to gaining competitive advantage. Organizations (and the suppliers who supported them) next applied ECM platforms to solving core back-office automation challenges – like accounts payable, invoice processing, contracts management, and HR administration. Over time, we began to think that ultimately, there would be a convergence in an organization around a single ECM platform.
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Information Security | Machine Learning | Privacy
Minimizing data breaches and privacy compliance are now top strategic and operational priorities for organizations given increasingly onerous data privacy regulatory requirements.
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My wife and I are big fans of the British Bake Off show – it’s called the Great British Baking Show in the US for Pillsbury copyright reasons. The official premise of the show is this: “Follow the trials and tribulations of passionate amateur bakers whose goal is to be named the UK’s best. Each week, the bakers tackle a different skill, the difficulty of which increases as the competition unfolds.”
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Accounting and Finance | Automation | Paperless Office
Everybody is now talking about the need for a digital transformation. Companies need to improve digital engagement and corporate productivity to serve better click-to-brick customers and millennials entering the workplace, expecting online services, and almost instant gratification.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Most organizations finally believe that maximizing the value of content and information through a coherent information strategy is critical to their future in a digital world. Their information strategy requires a content integration platform, one that is flexible enough to evolve over time.
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