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Despite huge advances in information capture tools and technologies, 42% of organisations continue to see an INCREASE in paper. While that’s a sobering statistic, it’s really no surprise when you consider these additional business practices:

•  On average, 45% of documents that are scanned are 100% “born digital” – just as they came from the printer.
• 77% of invoices that arrive as PDF attachments get printed.
• Only 23% of organisations pass PDFs or faxes directly as images to their capture/workflow system.
• 73% of key process controls are still manual

Many organisations are well aware of the problems but struggling to find a solution that delivers true automation.
 
When receiving documents in any format, be it paper or electronic, it’s key to ensure that business critical information can be effectively captured and delivered in the appropriate format. Intelligent Data Capture makes this vital business information immediately accessible, kicks off the process early with meaningful data, minimises manual data-entry and reconciliation, and provides process consistency.
 
Join us to hear Brian Wall discuss how to overcome capture obstacles to break free of paper-centric processes. We’ll provide practical tips for:

• Automated document classification – recognising the type of document to be processed based upon its content and automatically routing to the appropriate recipient
• Intelligent Data Capture software – that captures data from semi-structured and unstructured documents without the needs for templates or assisted learning sessions
• Feeding communications received via email, fax, web or social channels through the capture system for onward routing

We'll also hear from Karin Springer, who is the global process owner with responsibility for Accounts Payable in Siemens Shared Service Centre. Karin will describe what they are doing today and how the technology is addressing issues to improve efficiency to deliver real productivity gains with their AP requirements.

Have a question you'd like to see answered in this webinar? We'll do our best to include it during the live event.

Attend this webinar and you'll be entered into a random drawing to win a FREE CIP Exam Voucher (£ 171 value) to become a Certified Information Professional!

This webinar is pre-approved for one AIIM Certified Information Professional (CIP) Certification Maintenance Program credit

As more and more organizations adopt paper-free processes and automate their document-based workflows, the “wet ink” signature requirement stands out as something of an evolutionary laggard. Electronic signing mechanisms have been with us for a long time, but their adoption has been slow. Some of this is due to a lack of trust on the part of legal counsel – despite progressive legislation to the contrary – and some is due to confusion between the different mechanisms and technologies involved. All too often it is because the business case is not sufficiently prioritized to push it up the IT to-do list.

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.

Have a question you'd like to see answered in this webinar? We'll do our best to include it during the live event.

Attend this webinar and you'll be entered into a random drawing to win a FREE CIP Exam Voucher ($265 value) to become a Certified Information Professional!

This webinar is pre-approved for one AIIM Certified Information Professional (CIP) Certification Maintenance Program credit

The workforce is becoming increasingly mobile - at home through teleworking, on business trips, and in the field selling, inspecting, and servicing. There is also an increasing expectation by customers, suppliers and partners that business be conducted in real time. As a result, 46% of users need to share documents and content with project groups inside and outside the firewall.

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!

Have a question you'd like to see answered in this webinar? We'll do our best to include it during the live event.

Attend this webinar and you'll be entered into a random drawing to win a FREE CIP Exam Voucher ($265 value) to become a Certified Information Professional!

This webinar is pre-approved for one AIIM Certified Information Professional (CIP) Certification Maintenance Program credit

The business benefits of knowledge sharing and virtual workspaces are obvious, particularly with more and more of our colleagues now working from disparate locations. Document collaboration lets us leverage unique perspectives and skillsets for true innovation and product design. It lets us create once, then repurpose and reuse.

Then why don’t we do it more? Because:

• The collaborative tools are too hard to use; please don’t make our jobs any harder than they already are
• We can’t keep track of the documents that support our work; who’s got the right version/the true version?

Join us for a fun and lively webinar that examines the social, cultural, procedural, and technical aspects of business collaboration. Find out how to put an end to content chaos, lost work, and counterintuitive processes to realize the true promise of collaboration with any type of business file.

Have a question you'd like to see answered in this webinar? We'll do our best to include it during the live event.

This webinar is pre-approved for one AIIM Certified Information Professional (CIP) Certification Maintenance Program credit

If business-relevant information is not well managed, secured and analyzed, it can become an underutilized asset or—worst case—a legal and competitive liability.  84% of the IT and business executives responding to a recent survey recognize
this risk, and the importance of having an enterprise information management (EIM) strategy. However, less than one-third say that EIM is a strategic priority.

This has to change! But where to start?

Jill Singer, former CIO at National Reconnaissance Office and Debra Lavoy, Director of Product Marketing at OpenText, recommends a 3-step and iterative approach that will help you overcome the technical, operational and cultural hurdles. Join in the discussion and realize the power and promise of your information assets.

Have a question you'd like to see answered in this webinar? We'll do our best to include it during the live event.

This webinar is pre-approved for one AIIM Certified Information Professional (CIP) Certification Maintenance Program credit

For our UK and European community

The challenge of managing corporate content has never been greater.  Growth in the corporate adoption of tablets, smartphones, cloud-based services and mobile productivity apps are changing the way organisations do business.

Understanding how to harness the benefits of cloud, mobility and enterprise content management is the key to transforming your business and IT.   Organisations need agile and adaptive solutions to manage their business processes, integrate with existing systems and ensure content security and compliance, whilst collaborating securely both internally and externally.

The answer. Hybrid ECM.  Combining the benefits of an on-premise solution, with the agility of the cloud, in a cost effective and efficient way.

In this webinar we will discuss:

• The benefits of a Hybrid ECM solution - the ability to connect people, content, systems and business processes securely on both sides of the firewall and on mobile devices.
• The rise of the Mobile workforce: how to increase productivity — securely — by fuelling devices with business content.

This webinar is pre-approved for one AIIM Certified Information Professional (CIP) Certification Maintenance Program credit

By now you’ve heard that we are in the midst of a brave new world where cloud computing, social networks, and mobile devices are at the forefront of organizational planning. All of the ways that we store and process our business information have resulted in silos of multiple repositories containing various content formats that need to be accessed by fellow employees and external business partners or customers around the globe.

In this webinar, our speaker will discuss ways to unify the layers of information in your business. We’ll break down and simplify the steps you need to take to bridge these silos and go beyond the borders of ECM.

Doculabs' Richard Medina posts additional references in his blog post here. He also gives a full overview of this very presentation in his AIIM Community blog post.

This webinar is pre-approved for one AIIM Certified Information Professional (CIP) Certification Maintenance Program credit

AIIM research has found that 2/3 of staff have concerns about information being accurate and accessible – and therefore do not trust it. 28% of organizations have had their records management and security practices criticized or exposed by an auditor in the last three years. AIIM research has also found that legal costs, fines, and damages could be reduced by 25% if organizations applied best practice procedures to records management, security, and ediscovery.  Just 13% of the members think their organization already follows best practice in these areas.

What are the business opportunities for VARs and SIs? What solutions should you offer? What skill sets do you need? Join us at this AIIM Webinar, exclusively for resellers and service companies to learn how you can offer Information Governance solutions to existing and new customers.

In addition, hear from leading vendors (Parascript, ARX, HP, Alfresco) as they discuss the benefits of what it means to be their reseller partner.

This webinar is pre-approved for one AIIM Certified Information Professional (CIP) Certification Maintenance Program credit

For our UK and European community

We know that responsibility for governance is spread around the entire organization, but only 16% regularly train all staff and 31% of orgs do not do any training at all*.  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 in the big data age, how do we keep a lid on the escalating costs of content storage?
 
Join AIIM’s industry analyst Doug Miles as he breaks down our latest research report and discusses the governance risks, rewards, and issues that you face in your enterprise. Benchmark your organization against the research findings, and gain tips on where you can improve your governance practices.
 
(*according to recent AIIM research)