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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

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?

ECM 166
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The State of Content Management in 2020 [Expert Tips & Research]

AIIM

Few announcements in information management have been bigger than Gartner’s article heard round the world that announced the death of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) as we knew it. Michael Woodbridge’s quote gets straight to the point here: “ECM is now dead (kaput, finite, an ex-market name), at least in how Gartner defines the market.

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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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[Podcast] Preparing for a Lean, Mean, 2019

AIIM

This exercise is often done both on a personal level in our daily lives as well as with our employers in our business lives. Check out this episode to hear directly from Peggy about AIIM’s 2019 vision, including: Is AIIM shifting its focus away from ECM? And it’s no exception at AIIM. Hear all this and more!

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KM World Covers the Latest Best Practices in IG

IGI

It has legitimized information governance as a free-standing business exercise, distinct from enterprise content management (ECM). . “The Information Governance Initiative, is widely credited with moving the discipline forward. – Your Policies Need to Reflect Today’s Communications.

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The Strategic, the Tactical, and Agile Records Management

Brandeis Records Manager

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. And strategic prescriptions get dated: witness the well-intentioned but long-broken DOD5015.2