Enterprise IT is changing! Who are the new custodians of business information?

The forces of Social, Cloud and Mobile computing are combining to create a new paradigm for how organizations view enterprise IT. In this new era of “systems of engagement”, our business information systems are not only expected to reduce risk and cost, but also to drive revenues and help engage customers, partners, and employees. At AIIM, we believe that these systems will be driven by a new expanded set of players who have a business rather than an IT focus. Enter the new Information Professional!

The vast majority of organizations see the need to manage information as an enterprise resource rather than in separate "silos," departments or systems, but they don't know how to begin to address the challenge, as it is so large. As a result, professional roles focused on information management will be different to those of established IT roles. An "information professional" will not be one type of role or skill set, but will in fact have a number of specializations. Join us for “The State of the Industry” as we identify those specializations and the new, necessary skills for leading tomorrow’s organizations through a focus on value, governance, and risk/liability. Walk away with a roadmap for acquiring or honing those skills to join the Information Professional ranks and advance your career.

Critical business information reaches companies in many forms – from paper and faxed documents to email with attachments and electronic content. And all of it must, at some point, be converted into intelligent content for use in SharePoint, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and other business systems. Organizations often try to meet these challenges by deploying isolated solutions where the immediate need is greatest, but they often end up with a large number of disparate solutions that don’t solve the underlying problem. 

An important step in solving these problems is an enterprise capture solution that enables capture driven business processes into SharePoint (and other systems) and across the enterprise.

Capture, you ask? Well, it’s not just for paper anymore. We know capture works. It’s been working since the 1980s. What you probably don’t know is that capture isn’t just about inserting a piece (or bunches of pieces) of paper into a scanner and pushing the big green button. We’re going to talk about how it works in ways you might not be thinking about yet – but should be.

Join our panel of leading industry analysts as they discuss 4 key issues to help you maximize data intelligence in your organization:

1. Multiple input streams
2. Data Capture for the Lifecycle Management
3. Point of Origination Capture
4. SharePoint and Capture

There is no reason for your business process to be mired in paper and inefficient.  Automating your workflow – whatever that business workflow is – will improve your decision-making; and enable those decisions to be made faster. Don’t replicate a bad business process; make it better.

Learn how to automate your workflow:

1. What’s the first step towards improving your business process – technology is only PART of the answer?
2. How does workflow automate decision-making and improve document routing? Discover how workflow can be applied to your business points of pain.
3. How do you ensure that these news tools will be accepted by your workers so that they are more productive and your organization becomes more streamlined and efficient?

The days of signing documents with a pen are fading faster than an ink signature on thermal paper. If you’re still collecting wet signatures as part of your business processes, what are your true costs? And why is that no longer a viable option?

According to AIIM research, for 40% of respondents who do not use digital signatures, half or more of their electronic document workflows are interrupted by the need for physical sign-offs. For 23% of non-users, this results in a week or more of process delay on average.

In this webinar, we'll interview two leading subject matter experts about what is a digital signature; what that means for your business, regardless how lightly or heavily regulated your industry; and what’s the alternative to doing nothing.

Sharing sensitive, confidential information presents security and compliance challenges for all organizations. In particular, healthcare organizations must navigate HIPAA and HITECH regulations for protection of personal health information.

Join Wes Wright, VP and Chief Technology Officer at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Paula Skokowski, VP of Products and Marketing at Accellion, to learn how using a secure file sharing & collaboration solution is allowing healthcare professionals and medical researchers to easily collaborate – locally and globally – to deliver quality care and groundbreaking research, while ensuring HIPAA and HITECH compliance.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss the business and regulatory issues that Seattle Children’s Hospital faced as they determined business needs; implementation challenges, obstacles and successes; their ROI; and expanded use across their organization.

Too much information can be embarrassing in your personal life. TMI in business can cost you millions, expose you to unnecessary risk, and make ediscovery even more costly than it needs to be.

Information volume is growing 50% or more each year while IT budgets grow barely 1%. But as much as 50% of the information IT manages is not needed by the business or legal stakeholders. Unnecessary information eats into profitability and, as it accumulates, forces the CIO to use more of his budget for waste management and less for strategic investments.  

Smart Archiving Strategy: Retain the Right Data, Documents and Email
By linking IT processes with legal, business and records processes, IT can manage information based on its value and dispose of it when it is no longer needed. In this session, we will discuss how to: 

• Retain and archive information based on its business value and legal stakeholders 
• Dispose of information when it is no longer needed by business and legal stakeholders 
• Reduce complexity with a cohesive approach to archiving, governance, and disposal across disparate data sources

And we will discuss examples of companies on the road to saving hundreds of millions of IT dollars by no longer managing unnecessary information.

Better information and retention management, stricter compliance, faster reactions, and data integrity leads to improved productivity and increased efficiency.  Knowing where your data resides and how to quickly locate it provides a competitive advantage and makes you better prepared for discovery. This session will discuss recent trends, survey results, and best practices to help you create an Information Advantage. We will help you:

• Examine the benefits of a uniform records management (and capture) environment that spans physical and digital information
• Learn ways to assess Retention Schedule defensibility and practical steps towards improvement
• Better prepare  to meet  compliance, audit, and regulatory obligations and discovery requests

The technologies, practices, and philosophies of the 2.0 era continue to affect companies in important ways, and it is critical to understand how organizations are changing the way they generate and use information. Join MIT professor and researcher, Andrew McAfee (credited with coining the term, E2.0) for an in-depth look at the intersection of Social Business and common business processes.

Through specific use cases around innovation, sales & marketing, and collaboration, Dr. McAfee will demonstrate how organizations should use social business systems and functionality in a strategic way to improve the flexibility of their core business functions, making them more responsive to, and inclusive of internal and external customers. The use cases presented are the result of broad business research across industry verticals as well as interviews with select CIOs and IT executives from major corporations and government agencies.

With the explosive growth in smartphones and tablets, how can we exploit the multi-functionality of these devices to improve the productivity of our workforce, and enhance our customer service – while addressing security concerns?

Information management in a mobile context needs to be seen in the same way as it is within the business walls. How do we make corporate information available on the device? How and what content can we capture at the mobile device? How can we extend and expedite electronic workflows to remote, field-based and travelling staff? How do we include mobile staff into social collaboration sites? And how do we secure access to and dispose of stored information on the device?

This webinar will present results from current industry research on this important new aspect to business management.