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What are the Best Document Management Capabilities?

AIIM

Document Management is the use of a software application to track digital documents from creation through approval and publication. It serves in many ways to apply a formal governance framework to the document creation and collaborative editing processes. Five Key Document Management Capabilities. Version control.

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The Business Value of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Solutions

AIIM

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is a systematic approach to capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver information related to business processes. This is one of the reasons why some companies do not give importance to proper support and maintenance of ECM solutions. Make ECM part of the corporate information governance strategy.

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How to Tackle the Information Management Challenges of Legacy Applications

AIIM

And relying on legacy technology creates business risk because these older systems are much harder to fix when things go wrong and more vulnerable to security threats. An enterprise content management (ECM) system is ideal for this purpose as it is expressly designed to capture and organize large volumes of data in diverse formats.

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Document Management vs. Content Management: What's the Difference?

AIIM

For instance, businesses are looking for cost-effective methods to capture, organize, share, and document digital data. However, people often get confused between document management software and content management software when it comes to business information management. What Is Document Management Software (DMS)?

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Veteran ECM Integrator Hopes to Revolutionize Market

Info Source

There has been talk recently about the modernization of ECM technology—and a lot of it revolves around a transition to a more services-oriented architecture. Before founding Docxonomy in early 2017, he spent more than 15 years as an ECM specialist focused on enterprise implementations. We are going to be part of a paradigm shift.”.

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How to Eliminate Paper Processes

AIIM

70% of AIIM survey respondents indicate that they plan to expand their efforts to encourage and support more digitally-born documents this year. Access controls and data security make it easier and less expensive to maintain compliance, and reduces the chance of missing documents that could result in lost revenue.

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Capturing Paper Documents - Best Practices and Common Questions

AIIM

Also known as “capture,” this capability is characterized by the ability to scan paper documents to store and use them in digital form instead of paper. First developed over 30 years ago, capture systems have evolved from simple solutions for basic scanning into sophisticated and expensive systems for enterprise-wide document automation.

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