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Capture and Imaging  |  Process Improvement

Going down the Rabbit Hole

When I was a young child, in an era when school papers had to be researched in libraries with card catalogs and shelves upon shelves of books, my father had the bright idea to purchase a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica. Now, we lived on a tight budget, and my mother wasn’t too thrilled with this splurge when a perfectly good library was so close to home. Dad wouldn’t hear of it! “Our girls need the best education we can offer,” so of course, mom relented.

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Content Migration

Content Migration: Should You Go Manual or Find a Partner?

Carefully think through the pros and cons of your approach to content migration. The advent of a new generation of modern content solutions and the desire of many organizations to reduce the number of content systems is driving organizations to look at how they can update their content management infrastructure.

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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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Electronic Records Management (ERM)

It’s like Deja Vu All Over Again – a Records Management Classic

As Yogi supposedly once said, it's like deja vu all over again. I recently came across this article from e-doc Magazine by my friend Nishan DeSilva (then of Watson Wyatt fame, now at Microsoft). For those of you who might not know, this was a physical magazine published by AIIM. (Speaking of e-doc Magazine, how many remember it's successor, Infonomics magazine? Gosh, I wish we had held onto that name!)

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AIIM Conference

Braindates: How We’re Taking Peer-to-Peer Learning to the Next Level

Say you’re feeling a bit under the weather. Ache here, pain there, friends asking, “Are you ok? You look...tired.” What’s the first thing you’ll do? Go to the doctor? Of course not. You Google your symptoms, so you can judge if 1) you can cure what ails you on your own, or 2) it’s worth the hassle of going in to see your doctor. If you do end up going, you’ll proudly share your diagnosis with her before she can even examine you just to make sure she doesn’t waste your time.

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Collaboration  |  GDPR  |  Social Media

4 Special Requirements Social Media and Collaboration Create for GDPR Compliance

A new set of European rules and standards related to privacy and data protection (the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR) has set in motion a mad compliance and security scramble not only for European companies, but also for any company doing business in Europe or with European customers. The regulation is designed to harmonize privacy across the EU, codify more rigorous privacy rights, strike a balance between privacy and security, and create an explicit obligation for both data controllers and processors to demonstrate compliance with GDPR. The clock is ticking – the regulation goes into effect on May 25th, 2018, and the potential penalties for non-compliance are significant (organizations found to be in breach of GDPR may be fined up to 4% of annual revenues or 20 million Euro, whichever is the greater).

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Capture and Imaging  |  Information Security

3 Challenges Created by an Ad Hoc Approach to Information Capture

We need to update the way we handle data and documents. Scanning and information capture lead a curious double life. On one hand, it seems like we’ve been doing scanning and capture forever, at least within larger companies. Scanning and capture are stable, mature technologies with a well-documented ROI. On the other hand, they are still somewhat new when it comes to adoption by many smaller and mid sized organizations.

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