The AIIM Blog

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

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Content Migration

I Want to Create a File Migration Mess – Tell Me How

Rapid technology change in the information management space is creating a fundamental tension for organizations. On the one hand, as organizations make their plans for the next 18-24 months, they can clearly see the attractiveness of cloud content management solutions and the imperative of making these solutions a more important part of their infrastructure. On the other hand, they likely have older legacy ECM systems – likely multiple systems – performing critical functions that can’t just be turned off without suffering lots of business disruption.

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Compliance  |  GDPR  |  Privacy

What Are You Doing about GDPR? 3 Keys to Compliance

May 2018 is just around the corner, and there is a mad scramble to figure out what to do about GDPR. Here are the three Keys to Your GDPR Compliance Strategy.

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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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Content Services  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

ECM – Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

Gartner: “ECM is now dead (kaput, finite, an ex-market name), at least in how Gartner defines the market. It’s been replaced by the term Content Services.” What is happening in the enterprise IT space – and how is it impacting content management? Consider the following emerging broad trends -- trends that will mold and shape the world of content management in both the short and long-term create a need for a broader and more encompassing industry description than “ECM.”

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Automation

How I Learned to Love the Robot: Getting Started with Document Automation

Management had a chat and the robots start next week: Do you… Fortify the office to defend against the Robot Uprising–You won’t go down without a fight, right? Repress your inner cave-dweller, and find a way to leverage this new tool to more effectively manage digital documents throughout their lifecycle and delegate manual tasks? If you chose A: Best of luck! If you chose B: You are lightyears ahead of the people choosing A— feel good about that. You are also absolutely right:

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Certified Information Professional (CIP)

Canon Norway Standardizes on CIP

Over the past decade, there has been a “perfect storm” of change driven by consumerization, cloud, mobile, and the Internet of Things. It has changed how enterprise information and IT are viewed and changed the kinds of skills that are needed to adapt to these disruptions. The value-add for information technology in organizations is rapidly shifting from the technology per se to the stewardship, optimization, and application of the information assets themselves.

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Business Process Management (BPM)  |  Logistics

The Last Mile Is an Overlooked Process 'Moment of Truth'

A “moment of truth” is a deciding instant that determines whether something will succeed. According to Wikipedia, “Transporting goods via freight rail networks and container ships is often the most efficient and cost-effective manner of shipping. However, when goods arrive at a high-capacity freight station or port, they must then be transported to their final destination. This last leg of the supply chain is often less efficient, comprising up to 28% of the total cost to move goods. This has become known as the last mile problem."

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