AIIM — The Enterprise Content Management Association

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Case Studies and White Papers

  • Integrating a digital signature solution into SharePoint leverages your investment by fully automating the workflow from document creation through signature capture. This case study details how one company streamlined workflows and improved customer service.

  • More than 80% of all data in an enterprise is unstructured information. Unfortunately, attempts to leverage this resource often fail because many businesses lack the technology to utilize content that resides outside the scope of structured databases.

  • Manual and siloed document processes can leave you literally drowning in paper with higher operational costs, less visibility and reduced agility. ECM can address these issues, bringing greater speed, reliability and efficiency to everyday business processes.

  • This whitepaper explains how Lotus Notes can be used to drive SharePoint adoption. It describes how employees can access and share SharePoint documents directly from their email client, without having to navigate between applications or send bulky attachments.

News and Information

  • If you’re challenged to take SharePoint to the next level or uncertain how you can use SharePoint to quickly support document and business processes across the enterprise, you’re not alone. The risks and challenges will certainly continue as SharePoint 2010 enters the scene. Drawing on real-world case studies, the webinar will demonstrate how the Cloud enables you to quickly deliver content management process applications and support business initiatives without capital expense and long project timelines.
  • Survey shows implementations of Microsoft SharePoint generally go ahead without a formal business plan, and with confusion about where and how it is to be used.
  • #1 - Do you need a scanning application or a capture application? The marketplace is filled with applications that provide a means to convert paper to digital form. If all you need to do is load paper and scan to a document library, and your volume is fairly light, scanning applications provide a simple, easy to use interface for these types of operations.
  • #1 -- Learn how to manage risks and compliance. Managing business risk and achieving regulatory compliance are among the greatest challenges that enterprises face. There is increasing pressure to comply with evolving legislation, mandates, standards and regulations designed to protect against an array of risks that span different industries, disciplines, governments and geographies.

Industry Research

  • In many organizations, SharePoint deployment is speeding ahead with little thought to the information management implications of documents stored within its libraries and team sites. In other businesses there is confusion as to how SharePoint is utilized alongside existing document management and ECM systems.

    In this report we measure the take up of SharePoint, its utilization for traditional ECM applications, strategies for integration, and use of third party add-on applications. We also provide advice for those implementing SharePoint based on the experiences of over 500 existing users from the AIIM community.

  • Business take up of Enterprise 2.0 has doubled in the last year. According to this AIIM report, there has been a dramatic increase in the understanding of how Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, blogs, forums, and social networks can be used to improve business collaboration and knowledge sharing, with over half of organizations now considering Enterprise 2.0 to be "important" or "very important" to their business goals and success. Only 17% admitted that they have no idea what it is, compared to 40% at the start of 2008. However, only 25% of organizations are actually doing anything about it - but that is up from 12% in the previous survey.
  • Despite decades of theories and methodologies from BPR to Six Sigma, many organizations still find that processes are unowned, unmanaged, and out of control - in short, many organizations are "process ignorant."
  • AIIM's annual State of the ECM Industry research found that compared to recent years, cost saving has taken a clear lead over compliance as the main business driver for investments in document and records management. Email is still out of control, with 55% of organizations having little or no confidence that important emails are recorded, complete and retrievable. Management of content types like SMS/text messages, blogs and wikis are largely off the corporate radar in 75% of organizations and their lack of inclusion in the corporate archive is a major risk.

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