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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

How to Budget for Your Company’s Technical Debt

While “technical debt” is a term that’s frequently used by technologists, the implication and understanding of it tend to be opaque to the business until it’s too late - just look at how Nokia lost the mobile market that it helped create. The business and finance side of Nokia had the usual tools for assessing financial risks - but why do we not have an equivalent tool for the operational or existential risks when the debts come from the more intangible investment in technology?

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AIIM Community  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

What a Difference a Year Makes

For AIIM, 2017 began with this provocative question: In an Artificial Intelligence world, where deep learning completely shrinks the development time while amping up the computing power, do content management capabilities become irrelevant and obsolete?

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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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Cloud  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

A Decade of Content Management Change

As Jerry Garcia might say, “What a long strange trip it’s been.” Think about the incredible changes that have taken place in the content management space over the last ten years:

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

3 Key Objectives at the Heart of a Content Integration Initiative

Technical complexity, and in some cases vendor lock-in, make it very difficult to connect all of the various content systems that typically exist in every organization and access the right content. And that has a negative impact on the productivity of your knowledge workers and on your organization's ability to respond in a timely manner to changing market conditions.

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

How Important Is Digital Document Consistency?

A repository containing documents that were digitized inconsistently or inaccurately presents a new set of problems for an organization, problems that can hinder the productivity gains they had hoped to achieve.

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Content Migration  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

Content Modernization Is More Complicated than Simple Migration

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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