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Keep your finger on the pulse of Intelligent Information Management with industry news, trends, and best practices.
Electronic Records Management (ERM) | Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
I recently attended a meeting of the Chicago chapter of AIIM, where a stimulating panel discussion on the future of ECM and records management took place. I wish I had recorded the conversation, but I took some great notes that I wanted to share with you all.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Please enjoy this roundup of articles by the intelligent information management experts that make up the AIIM Community.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
In December 2009, I published an article explaining the eight reasons why CMIS will transform the ECM industry. In May 2010, the initial version of the CMIS standard was released by OASIS. In the last few months I have been asked by several people of what my opinion is now, looking back at my thought-provoking predictions that I made in this article one year previously. So it’s time for me to reflect on these statements and to state 8 reasons why 2011 will be the year of CMIS:
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Cloud | Document Management | Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
1. Reduction in Paper Santa receives millions and millions of letters each year and has always done his part when it comes to recycling. However, an online document management system that accepts uploaded letters and stores emails will take Santa’s green initiatives one step further by eliminating the need for paper altogether. The cumulative impact on reducing global warming will make the polar bears very happy!
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Enterprise Content Management has become a critical strategic business process, due in part to increasingly stringent legislation and aggressive litigation. To meet this challenge, some organizations take a do-it-yourself approach, letting their in-house IT department build an ECM system from scratch or using ostensibly cheap tools. Inevitably, this only complicates matters and leads to greater expense with an inordinate amount of time spent on research and development, testing and debugging, and on-going support. When ECM is viewed as a technology system and managed as an IT project rather than as a management-led information governance initiative, the resulting implementation may lack the necessary security features and functionality to ensure regulatory compliance and discovery protection.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM) | Enterprise Search | Metadata
1. No One Wants Unfettered Information Unless your IT budgets are growing faster than your enterprise content volumes, you need an approach to manage, surface, and control information that does not mandate adding more storage, staff, or restrictions. The systems responsible for content understand nothing about the subject or domain of information under their management. Search engines, content management systems, process engines are all blind to meaning and context. In real life, the meaning of a piece of information determines its usefulness, relevance, and treatment. Semantics add a layer of intelligence by describing what the content is about, using structured data – a.k.a. metadata. Metadata can be used to drive workflows, archiving policy, search, compliance, access control, and discovery.
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