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Build a Cloud-First Content Management Strategy in Three Simple Steps

AIIM

The perks of a cloud-first approach for data management have been well documented: unified, content-services platforms accessed anytime, anywhere by empowered employees leading to improved productivity and reduced operational costs. Step 1: Improve Content Metadata. High-quality metadata is essential to improving search results.

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MS Teams Information Governance - A Checklist for Success

AIIM

Don’t burden a records manager with your end users’ day-to-day jobs; take retention management out of their hands where possible by automating document classification and retention. Make the most of metadata by utilizing systems that help automate how metadata is applied while retaining unstructured data in place.

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Common Problems with Content Migrations

AIIM

Linked Formats: Engineering drawings with linked external reference drawings, spreadsheets or PDFs that link to each other, or any other types of linked files often run into issues with the paths to the linked documents. This is also known as metadata enrichment. Process Issues. These are easy to generate for many repositories.

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Does Your Content Drive Organizational Value?

AIIM

was something focused on archiving the document rather than on extraction of data from the document.It was something focused on archiving the document rather than on extraction of data from the document.It This is especially the case where organizations are receiving documents through a variety of delivery channels.

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How to Perform a Content Migration - Your Checklist for Success

AIIM

Information Management Specialists: A given migration could require advice and support from records managers, knowledge managers, document managers or document controllers, privacy and data protection specialists, and others. Or is much of it redundant, outdated or obsolete, or trivial (ROT)? Content Migration Phase 2: Planning.

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Records Management in the Intelligent Information Era

AIIM

Many records managers also work closely with other information management disciplines such as privacy and data protection, information security, e-discovery, capture and document imaging, etc. Metadata Capture and Remediation: Again, users are the problem with metadata more than the solution.

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How to: Find and Clean out Your Dark Data with everteam.discover

Everteam

We say 80% of a company’s content is ROT – redundant, obsolete and trivial – and that keeping it is causing real challenges including storage costs and the risk of theft (both intentionally and accidentally). Governance: track document lifecycle and relevant documents to apply the appropriate retention policies.

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