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ECM is primarily used for document management or file-share replacement by 78%, records management for 66% and collaboration for 46%.

5/21/2013

AIIM’s research, “ECM at the Crossroads,” looks at the ECM installed base as companies wrestle with content management challenges in the face of of evolving business priorities, mobile access, cloud, social and email management, as well as, industry-specific requirements and spending plans. Of the 538 survey respondents only 18 percent have implemented a company-wide ECM solution. While an additional 36 percent say they are working toward a central ECM solution, many questions remain across the board.

Can you handle extreme information? Attend the AIIM Roadshow in June in the UK.

5/14/2013

In just one day in Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham or London, our free programme of educational keynotes and seminars will aim to answer key questions such: Which new ECM techniques are proving most effective?; How are corporate processes being affected by BYOD strategies?; What challenges are arising from the growth of social media?; Where are cloud-based technologies having the greatest impact?; How well is SharePoint being integrated with other systems?; What value can be unlocked through the latest ‘big data’ tools?

Electronic signing mechanisms have been with us for a long time, but their adoption has been slow.

5/13/2013

In this webinar, we learn just what is a digital signature. We’ll understand why and how this secure and compliant electronic process is legally defensible in audits, regulatory and governance practices. We’ll quantify the considerable ROI in reduced costs and increased efficiencies by removing the bottlenecks created by paper-based approval processes.

67% of organizations consider mobile technologies to be important.

5/13/2013

Most organizations understand the need to digitize, socialize, and mobilize their information in order to drive speed, efficiency, responsiveness and engagement. However, changing the way we think about our document- and paper-centric processes is challenging. We want to protect our vital information assets and records at all cost. How do you realize the process improvement benefits of mobile in a strategic and responsible way? Get answers. Join your peers at AIIM’s complimentary seminar. In a few short hours, you’ll hear real-world success stories, get practical advice, meet individuals that have the same business issues as you, and learn about solutions that can help you capture content closer to the point of origination, route it into your business process, and make it available to whoever needs it, wherever they are.

Which of your paper-free processes provide the best ROI? Take AIIM survey.

5/13/2013

Are you still fighting the process revolution? Where are the latest battlefields and how close to the boundaries of the enterprise are you taking the fight? In this new AIIM survey, we look at progress towards paper-free business processes, and which processes are performing the best. We also look at the drivers and issues for the movement of scanning and capture towards the periphery of the business through digital mailrooms, branch-capture, outsource, consumer self-service, and capture on mobile devices

How to evolve from managing highly secure, centralized, in-house silos.

5/13/2013

This short paper explains the regulatory aspects of public sector data management, including business impact levels (IL), aligns possible solutions with the G-Cloud initiative, and makes practical suggestions for a route forward that enables the use of a combination of cloud and on-premise content, collectively known as Hybrid ECM.

46% need to share documents and content with project groups inside and outside the firewall.

5/12/2013

Has your organization responded to this demand? Is your business content available and accessible from anywhere, on any device, and at any time? If not, why not? Join AIIM for this live webinar, and learn the 3 key ingredients for any successful mobile content program: Seamless: the user experience out in the field should look and feel as close to the experience in the office. | Smart: the mobile application should work the way the user works to emulate regular process flows; don’t make it more difficult to create and collaborate on content from afar. Mobile should enable productivity, not hinder it. | Secure: policies, procedures, and protections must be in place to protect sensitive and proprietary information; the collaborative outputs could be part of your competitive advantage!

Print. Send. File. If only it was that easy.

4/12/2013

“Print, send, and file.” If only it was as easy to do as it is to say. We’d like to know the issues you have around printer services, print-stream processes, multiple media channels, composite document assembly and output archive…and if you have an integrated system, how well is it working?

AIIM research shows shortcomings in records management, risk, information governance practices.

4/11/2013

The paperless office appears further away than ever before. According to recent research from AIIM we are using more paper records than ever before, there are still significant problems capturing and storing information for records and, even worse, senior management is sticking its head in the sand and ignoring the inherent risks in these practices.

Information Governance – records, risks and retention in the litigation age

4/1/2013

Nowadays, investigations and court cases are likely to hinge on evidence from electronic documents, emails and even social comments. As the argument moves from how do we keep stuff, to how can we defensibly get rid of stuff, what shape does enterprise records management take? And how do we keep a lid on the escalating costs of content storage? In this report, we look at the risk profiles around electronic records, retain vs. delete options, e-discovery issues, and the implications of social and cloud on RM policies. We also look at the development of enterprise-wide governance policies, and how they translate into system strategies.

Most organizations have some form of information governance in place, the question is how well can it be applied to your SharePoint environment?

4/1/2013

A successful implementation of SharePoint for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) requires a strategy and structure for how to share and manage information. Governance, as it relates to information management, addresses how information is created and managed in the enterprise.

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

4/1/2013

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.

Infographic: How governance within SharePoint is failing to deliver, and how security extensions can plug the gaps.

3/29/2013