Webinar Archive

What trends and skills will be the most highly valued for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) professionals in the coming year? In our latest research, we have asked the ECM community which skill-sets they believe will be in the most demand and have the greatest impact on career development. This thought provoking survey identifies the critical capabilities organizations are seeking, and how they match the career development aspirations of IT and Information Management professionals.

Hear the findings from this independent research and learn from your colleagues:

• What are the imperative ECM skills and expertise that organizations need?
• What are the salary expectations in those roles? 
• How are businesses supporting professional development?

As we look ahead to 2010 and beyond, one thing seems certain: the value of managing content – treating information as the key corporate asset that it is – will only increase in importance. AIIM’s industry research provides a unique perspective into the issues surrounding managing content and indicates trends in enterprise content management.

How is the ECM landscape changing? Increasing compliance and legal demands place increased pressure on organizations to get more information “under control.”  AIIM’s State of the ECM Industry presentation provides you with a comprehensive look at technology, business drivers, and market dynamics based upon our latest research data.

Join us to gain insight into:

• Return on investment
• Compliance
• Process management
• SharePoint
• Enterprise 2.0

Did you know that over 70% of organizations have made no plans or provision for long-term archiving of electronic records, with no policies for migrating to new media, translating formats, or virtualization of applications? Join us for a discussion of the state of electronic records management—learn about trends and how they will affect your organization (or chortle in glee at the thought of your competitors following some of the “worst practices” we’ll describe).

Ediscovery. Risk. Email. Tweets? Lost data. By now, everyone understands that maintaining control of vital corporate records is a key element of organizational success and minimizing risk. AIIM research reveals current trends and points toward important issues for 2010 and beyond.  Discover the trends that will affect managing records in the coming years and get ahead of the curve.

Even though not all content is an official record, all content needs to be managed and centrally governed. While the findings do indicate that management of electronic records lags behind that of paper records, an encouraging number of organizations are homogenizing their electronic and physical policies and practices. Join us to discover if your organization is leading or lagging.

Stop the paper chase. You, and your users, need information. And you need it fast. You have capture tools. You have SharePoint. To maximize efficiency, you need to bring those tools together. Whether a floor of filing cabinets or a desktop full of paper, you need to get access to your content when using SharePoint. Join us to learn why intelligent document capture is critical to your SharePoint environment - ensuring better access to information, reducing paper-handling costs, streamlining business processes, and controlling access to information.

In this session, we'll discuss how to automatically capture document and data and export to SharePoint, convert paper into digital content that's instantly searchable and accessible from SharePoint, and eliminate the costs and inefficiencies associated with paper processing.

A few short years ago, the push in the enterprise content management space was to consolidate all (or at least the vast majority) of content into a single repository – or as few repositories as possible. However, doing so is a . . . complex undertaking. Now, as search technology has matured, it’s possible to keep your documents/content/records/etc. in place and continue to access – and use – your content effectively.

Join us for a consideration of the benefits of managing content in place. Over an hour, we’ll discuss:

• The debate between centralized versus decentralized management of content
• The pros and cons of each approach and ways to achieve the correct balance between centralized access and decentralized decision-making
• Managing and applying consistent organizing principles (taxonomy/metadata) in a distributed, heterogeneous environment
• Pragmatic advice and steps you can use to manage your content in a federated environment. For example:
  o Security aspects of surfacing content from multiple repositories
  o How to address unique challenges presented by SharePoint repositories
  o How to make sure search results are shown in context, not just as separate list results from separate repositories

Stop searching for answers and join us for a lively, informative session.

In your large business, why should you be concerned about connecting content to your business process? Business process management implementations provide ROI: according to AIIM research, over 50% of respondents who conducted an ROI study on their BPM implementation (where unstructured content was integrated with a business process) achieved a positive ROI in three years or less. After  all, content sitting in a repository somewhere, while certainly good for corporate compliance, doesn’t necessarily make that content USEFUL. The value of content increases exponentially when it’s used; matching the right content to the right business process ensures that the content is useful—and used—when it should be. Don’t let your content collect electronic dust, understand how and why you need to inject content into your business processes.

This event will provide you the overall strategic framework for why you should be concerned with this issue. We’ll also look at a few use cases, such as project management, contract management, and customer relationship management to illustrate the efficiency you can benefit from when you automate your business processes and add content. We’ll conclude with a little management guidance on how to get a project that crosses multiple departments running smoothly.

Every company generates electronic records. From masses of individual emails to the huge number of electronic records created by automated transactions, many (if not most) of them will fall by the wayside; unmanaged; a ripe store of legal exposure ready for picking in the case of litigation. In addition to the critical need to control risk and litigation exposure, properly managing your records increases productivity and organizational efficiency. To achieve both, someone needs to be in charge.

So who is — or should be — responsible for ensuring that records are managed in your organization? IT? Legal? Finance? The lines-of-business? Too often the answer is simply “Yes.”

With records being created by, and potentially impacting, every part of an organization, it’s critical to identify a single center of responsibility. This event will focus on identifying where that center should reside, discuss at what level employees should be responsible for managing the records they create, and how to foster a corporate records management “culture.”

Today many organizations are barely managing electronic information within their own data centers. They are trying to make the records management transition from traditional paper to a world of online electronic documents. Suddenly this difficult problem of managing electronic documents internally seems to be getting much harder as the Internet is bringing in more documents. Companies can’t deal with a flood of instant messages, blogs, and twitter updates and their impact on document retention systems. Hence the typical reaction from most organizations is to shut down these types of communication in hopes of holding back this new flood of messages.

Why in the world are some companies looking at not blocking, but appearing to embrace the Internet with Software as a Solution (SaaS)? Does the fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) around storing your electronically stored information with another company make sense?

This webinar will examine how organizations are managing the transition from paper, to internal electronic documents, and the role of the Internet in overall strategy. Join us for a discussion of this paradigm shift and why you can trust (but verify) SaaS.

Special Thursday webinar for Government audience.

Is Obama’s Head in the Cloud?

The cloud. Software-as-a-Service. On-demand computing. Whatever term you use, this new model enables organizations to develop content applications like correspondence management, grant management, and contract management up to 10 times faster and for a fraction of the cost of traditional installed software. As a government IT professional, are these approaches available to you? The answer: Yes.

Cloud computing is being adopted and advocated at the Federal, State, and local levels. In this informative seminar, we'll sort through the hype to get to the reality of cloud computing:
What makes an application a cloud application?
How is cloud computing different from just hosting applications?
What are the advantages of cloud-based content management?
How it can enable government agencies to automate key processes, improve constituent services, and meet regulatory requirements at lower cost and with greater agility than other approaches.

How many times has your electronic workflow suddenly reverted back to the 1950s once a signature is required?

Print the document. Walk over to the printer. Sign the document (hopefully, only your signature is required). Send it by courier. Receive it back. Scan it. Archive it. Restart the workflow.

Now imagine that a document requires multiple signatures by co-workers who may be in the field, on vacation, or in an office on the other side of the country. Over time, the stops and starts to your business process add up to lost time, lost productivity, and, most importantly, lost revenue.

Digital signatures allow your business processes to stay totally digital. Digital signatures work. They are legal. They establish chain of custody. They enable improved compliance. They can improve your productivity. They also complete the last mile in going paperless.

Join us for a discussion on how to add digital signatures to your enterprise content management infrastructure and learn:

• How to enable approval processes and overcome the costs and delays of wet signatures
• How digital signatures can enhance SharePoint or other ECM deployments
• How to measure the ROI of implementing a digital signature in hard dollars, not just time saved