We are proud and excited to embark on this next community. AIIM's origins
are in imaging (AIIM was created as the National Microfilm Association) and
Capture continues to be a core element of a successful information management
strategy. After all, to set up a good scanning environment takes more - much
more - than connecting a scanner to a PC to capture paper. (Just because you can
buy a scanner at Best Buy doesn't make this easy.)
Capturing documents is the way to put your content in motion. The most basic
value proposition of scanning paper remains that digitizing paper (or ingesting
a digital document) ensures that you can find a document in seconds rather than
minutes, hours, or never. Paper information doesn’t help your organization in
today’s fast-paced world. While many internal company documents are born, and
remain, digital throughout their lifecycle organizations still need to ingest a
tremendous amount of paper-based communications from outside. Checks,
application forms, customer letters, etc. all need to be turned into digital
form for insertion into an electronic workflow.
Organizations that have implemented capture also report solid
return-on-investment numbers. AIIM's latest Document Scanning and Capture
Industry Watch reports that 46% of users report ROIs within 12 months, with
two-thirds seeing returns within 18 months. These are consistent across many
types of content and process.
Join us. Together we can create a remarkable resource to enable our community
to capture documents and data as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Expert Bloggers
As with the ERM and Enterprise 2.0
communities, we have been fortunate to agree with a range of experts in the
capture space who are willing to share their knowledge: Joe Budelli, VP, Sales,
ABBYY USA and AIIM Board member Lisa Desautel, President, Graphic Image Services
Bonnie Hipp, Senior Documentum Support Specialist, U of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences Sanooj Kutty, Internal Consultant, National Health Insurance Company,
Daman Dan O'Leary, VP, Global Solutions, LincWare Anthony Macciola, Chief
Technology Officer, Kofax Kevin Neal, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Fujitsu
Chris Riley, Sr ECM and Document Capture Architect, ShareSquared Jeff Shuey,
Director of Business Development, Kodak Mike Wells, Lead Analyst, Information
Systems Dept., Chesterfield County, VA Bob Zagami, General Manager, DataBank and
past-Chair of AIIM's Board
Capture Buyer's Guide
Today, we launch with a Capture
Buyer's Guide of software vendors. In the coming weeks, we will add hardware
vendors and service bureaus too. If you're a vendor and we're missing you, drop
me a line. For everyone who uses a product, we invite you to share your
knowledge by rating and commenting on the products.
Capture Wiki
Here's where everyone can share their
knowledge by contributing tips for what works around capture and collaborating
to create best practices for all to share. We want your input to the wiki --
help us create a comprehensive resource for getting the most from capture tools,
creating an effective strategy, etc.
What Do YOU Think?
Have a question? An opinion? This is
your community. Use the Discussion tab to engage in debate or ask for help from
fellow community members. Do you have an idea that you'd like to get off your
chest or an opinion to share? Write a guest blog post (who knows, over time you
may join our expert blogger line-up, Sanooj and Dan did).
If you ever have any ideas or suggestions, don't hesitate to share them
openly or directly with me: bduhon@aiim.org.
Join our newest
community.