The AIIM Blog

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

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Business Process Management (BPM)  |  Process Automation

Why Is Getting Rid of Paper Critical to Digital Transformation?

Process improvement and workflow are not new; in fact, they have been around since the late 1980s. Yes, they have evolved and continue to do so, but as was true of ECM, Business Process Management -- once seen as a nice to have -- is now considered a critical part of business operations.

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Analytics  |  Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Information Security  |  Process Automation

With Apologies to Julie Andrews, These Are a Few of My Favorite #AIIM15 Tweets

Here is a sampling from some of my favorite #AIIM15 tweets. Enjoy.

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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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Business Process Management (BPM)  |  Process Automation

Time to Confess; Are Your Processes Better Suited for 1995 than 2015?

"It was 20 years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play..." Twenty years sounds like a long time ago, but the back-end processes inside many organizations look the same then as they do now. The amount of paper still used in your business processes is a good indicator of how far behind you are in preparing your organization to address the challenge of digital transformation. Are your business processes suited for the future of information management or stuck in the past? Let's take a look. First, read through these following stats with your business processes in mind.

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Business Process Management (BPM)  |  Process Automation

4 Trends That Will Force You to Rethink Your Processes

There's a lot of factors hitting the information management industry changing how we need to think about our business processes. Customer expectations continue to rise, the volume and variety of information is increasing, and more. Let's explore these key trends further and uncover why and how they will affect critical business processes.

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Business Process Management (BPM)  |  Process Automation

8 Things You Need to Know about Business Process Automation and Workflow

While document scanning and document management technologies and services successfully eliminate paper problems, it’s workflow automation that generates the greatest return on investment because this is where business processes are truly streamlined. This is a guide for how to ease the pain of document-intensive business processes with workflow automation in a way that maximizes ROI, generates some quick wins and can lead to higher profitability and perhaps even competitive advantage.

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Business Process Management (BPM)  |  Process Automation

8 Things You Need to Know About Workflow & Business Process Engineering

Know Your Business. It is extremely difficult to be a good Business Process Engineer (BPE) if you don't understand your native business processes. Take the time to understand the real needs of business users and the enterprise as a whole before jumping in to automating workflows and deploying sexy on-line forms and task queues. Do not - I repeat Do Not - mention specific technologies. Listen, listen, listen, and then listen some more! You'll thank me later.

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