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How to Build a Metadata Plan in Five Steps

AIIM

Here is an outline of the steps included in this exercise to build your Metadata plan. Gather Your Requirements: Metadata requirements gathering can be done during the business and technical assessment phase of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) deployment. Let's get started! Five Essential Steps: Build and Execute a Metadata Plan.

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How to Tackle the Information Management Challenges of Legacy Applications

AIIM

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. In contrast, a good ECM system should require minimal maintenance and support and can be installed on a low-cost server. What kind of applications can be decommissioned?

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The Strategic, the Tactical, and Agile Records Management

Brandeis Records Manager

I’ve lived through several such examples. Look at the unwieldiness of big, last-generation ECM and ERM solutions (that 5015 was designed for) in the cloud era. Goals over objectives over actions is a necessary exercise for anyone serious about developing a program-level endeavor. Agile Records Management.