Webinar Archive

The reintroduction of paper into the workflow increases organizational costs, requires additional time, and prohibits an organization from realizing the true benefits of a fully electronic workflow.  Without the ability to effectively automate document-intensive processes, the promise of SharePoint remains unrealized.  Find out how you can enhance SharePoint portals with digital signatures and other technologies to perform document-centric applications such as contract management, case management, and invoice processing.

Join us for a discussion on how to mitigate the disruptions to your digital workflow and how to close the gaps that prevent your processes from working smoothly in your organization.

Special Thursday Webinar for the Government Sector

All government agencies, whether federal, state/provincial, or local, produce mountains of paperwork each day. How can your agency turn that mountain of paper into a molehill and create more sustainable business practices?

Improving your business processes can help your organization, despite tighter budgets and increasing demands from tax payers for faster access to information and sustainable ecological practices. Enterprise Content Management can help you reduce your agency’s paper use, storage costs, mailing costs, and more.

Join this webinar as we discuss the cost saving and ROI of paper reduction and improved business processes. Get inspired as we learn some creative ways agencies like yours are going green and how that can translate into other initiatives at your agency.

Every business has to deal with invoices, accounting applications, taxes, insurance, and/or healthcare paperwork. Routing, filing, audits, getting to your documents when you need them. We’ve all heard about the benefits and ROI of using capture technologies, but just how do you implement and streamline your document-centric business processes?

This webinar will recap the need for, and the value of automating your paper flows. It will focus on the "what’s next?" and the strategic approaches to automating your document-driven processes. Walk away with valuable action items to apply today and ideas on how to marry IT’s objectives with business strategy for your documents.

Collaboration – it's all the rage, and to some it is "new." Yet for any project, whether it is assembling a sales proposal in response to a Request For Proposals (RFP), to the collaboration and coordination necessary to build an aircraft carrier, or any size or style of collaboration in between, there are several questions to consider when it comes to modern day collaboration, what many are calling Enterprise 2.0, or for those with a longer history in business collaboration, Knowledge Management 2.0.

Do you believe that your organization has pulled together a suitably versatile and agile collaboration toolkit?

Are your collaboration tools built for distributed teams, or for localized teams?

Are the tools involved well-integrated into the flow of collaborative work (search, research, document, refine, revise, publish, re-use, etc.), or do you as a user of the toolkit have to remember what tool or application to use at various stages within the context of collaboration?

While management may say that "we need more collaboration," are you measured based on collaborative contributions, or in the end are you actually penalized for team contributions if it gets in the way of your individual work and personal performance measures?

Join us for a discussion on the current and future state of collaboration – and what it takes to ensure that your culture, skills, and technical tools are up to the task of real-time, flexible online collaboration. Not all collaboration efforts or outcomes are the same – make sure you are setting yourself up to succeed.

While it may feel good to make a “snap” or “gut-instinct” decision, it’s always better to make any decision based on information. A decision backed up by the best information to which you have access. In many organizations, the needed information is there, but it is spread out and basically worthless – or only accessible via the silos in which it’s stored. Information that can’t be found and acted upon is only taking up space.

So, how do you go beyond your gut to gain access to the information you need to make well-informed decisions?

You need to ensure that your information (both the unstructured text in documents and the rows and columns in databases) is embedded in your business processes: accessible where the workers are and can act on the information. There is a cost in missed opportunities and poor or misinformed decisions without this complete picture of all of your organization’s information.

Join us to discover the value of access to information—ALL of your information, data and documents—for improved decision-making and pointers so that you can begin to take positive steps to make it happen for you.

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.