AIIM — The Enterprise Content Management Association

The source for solving your business content challenges.

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Case Studies and White Papers

  • Going green isn’t just about saving the planet or hopping on the latest bandwagon, it’s about the bottom line: save the environment and save money.

  • The State of Missouri needed to speed processing and make electronic documents instantly available. The challenges? Missing applications; lack of access to documents; no public access;  processing delays. Find out more in this success story.

  • Organizations are constantly looking for ways to cut costs, but don’t realize that those cost cutting measures may also have positive environmental effects that can increase goodwill and shareholder value. Use the Document Management Green Calculator to see how your organization can effect environmental change by moving printed information online.
  • When an organization decides to go paperless, they are doing more than reducing their carbon footprint. These expansive efforts offer a tremendous opportunity to reduce basic costs and give a company a competitive edge.

News and Information

  • Ok, so going green isn’t always the top on your list of things to do when working on your document and content management challenges. But why not? AIIM recently published a white paper on this very topic and the author, Paul Mullon from COR Concepts, will present a webinar on July 14th to discuss his findings and recommendations.
  • As leading economic indicators continue to signal a global economic slowdown, companies are looking for effective steps to take – such as lowering costs and streamlining operations – in order to weather the storm and achieve a competitive edge in the eventual recovery. At the same time, recent industry research shows that businesses also want to be more environmentally responsible. There are several document management practices that can help companies reach both their environmental and cost-reduction goals.
  • In celebration of Earth Day, AIIM has released the top 6 reasons for organizations to immediately go green with ECM (Enterprise Content Management) technologies.
  • This presentation provides you with a practical approach for implementing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) using the open methodology MIKE2. The slides are from the AIIM ECM Specialist and Master Certificate Programs. For more information visit www.aiim.org/training

Industry Research

  • This survey of 456 end-users was conducted in July 2007. Half of the survey population was comprised of large organizations (>1000 employees). The remaining 50% was virtually evenly split between medium (101 – 1,000) and small organizations (1 – 100.)
  • Despite the importance of management (as part of enterprise content management), the front-end functionality—content capture—is fundamentally critical to any ECM system. Content capture is any tool, technique or technology that enables the digitization of content so that it can be managed in an ECM.