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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 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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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). It is not seen as synonymous with information security but the two are most definitely related- or perhaps joined at the hip is a better way to phrase it.”

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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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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

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Join Our Webinar on November 16th: IGI & Preservica Address the Governance of Long-Term Digital Information

IGI

Follow that exercise with an analysis of the capabilities of the underlying technologies and develop a gap analysis for key components like integrity/fixity, metadata, and file format transformation. There is a strong likelihood that some of this content is in unsupported and proprietary file formats and so need triage to be usable.