The AIIM Blog
Keep your finger on the pulse of Intelligent Information Management with industry news, trends, and best practices.
Over the last few months, AIIM has gathered hundreds of product ratings from industry professionals and users of Capture software. We will make the results available in a report we are developing with well-known industry analyst Harvey Spencer.
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Whether you are new to production scanning, or have been involved for many years, it’s tempting to believe that scanners have become a “commodity”—that most scanners are very much alike in design and functionality, and that choosing a scanning platform is no longer a critical decision when compared, for example, to the decision related to your capture or ECM software. Nothing could be further from the truth. Don’t shortchange the evaluation and choice of a scanner. The device you choose will be with you for many years and will be responsible for accurately capturing your paper documents efficiently and effectively. The following eight factors will help you think about just how different scanning platforms can be. Consider your business needs carefully before choosing the device that is right for you—you’ll be happy that you did!
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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.
While creating an Information Management Strategy, you need to determine the most important piece to getting your documents digitized and that is the scanner. There are many choices on the market ranging from low end, 25 pages per minute and up desktop scanners to production scanners that will perform at 100 pages per minute and up. Almost all have duplex scanning to scan both sides of a document.
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You’ve got thousands of pictures saved on your computer, and probably thousands more sitting in boxes and bookshelves all over your house. The question is, could you find that picture from your 1987 trip to the beach with you and your wife in it? The answer is probably no, or at least not in a reasonable amount of time. There are a lot of ways to organize your pictures and make them more accessible as well as protected, but to start you off, here are eight things you should know.
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Capture and Imaging | Document Management | Electronic Records Management (ERM)
In this day and age, we are faced with more and more electronic receipts, contracts, bills, etc as the paper ones continue to be phased out. However, what about that garage full of old documents you’ve been collecting for the past twenty years?
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Capture and Imaging | Sharepoint and Office 365
Microsoft SharePoint is sweeping through organizations, serving as a powerful catalyst for the benefits of enterprise content management (ECM), which include not just managing content, but also collaboration and process automation. In some cases, it has pushed companies to seriously consider leveraging SharePoint as the first step towards ECM. For other companies, it has been more about how SharePoint needs to coexist with current systems. While SharePoint has brought ECM to the masses in a simple and easy-to-deploy way, one question that looms large is: How do I get my paper into SharePoint so that I can transform it from a liability into an immediate business advantage? To answer that question requires careful consideration of the eight key points outlined here.
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