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How to Build a Metadata Plan in Five Steps

AIIM

Metadata resides at the center of many of the essential aspects of content management. In addition to helping organize and classify content, Metadata enables good findability, can trigger workflow and transactional processes, reveals document usage patterns and history, and helps establish retention and disposition events.

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31 Letters to Santa from ECM Users

AIIM

As many of you know, AIIM does a lot of surveying of the user community and issues a wide variety of market research reports. Digital Transformation is fairly advanced in the Bank but ECM is trailing behind and not well understood, especially from a metadata perspective.”. “AI He may look sweet, but he is the DEVIL!”.

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InfoGov Links Of The Week 03-31-2017

Information is Currency

For purposes of context for our survey, we positioned digital transformation as the concept of being paperless, using multi-channel inbound capture, and the impact digital transformation will have on individuals, business organizations, and operational processes. GDPR Is Looming: How ECM Can Help Businesses Meet the Challenge.

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FAQ: So text messages can be records – how do we capture and retain them?

The Texas Record

The Pew Research Center found through surveys and research that text messaging is regularly used by 97 percent of smartphone users in the U.S., Your agency or local government can decide to have employees be responsible for manually saving their text messages to a government-controlled storage space, like a shared drive, ECM, or similar.

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9 Ways Uncontrolled Information Stands in the Way of Your Digital Transformation Plans

AIIM

AIIM reports that 52% of organizations have three or more ECM/DM/RM systems and 22% have five or more systems. The problem is even more challenging at the largest organizations, with 38% reporting more than five ECM/DM/RM systems in operation. 61% report no connection between their ECM and ERP Systems.

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

IGI

This correlates to a recognition by IG practitioners in the 2017 benchmark survey results that executive leadership will bear the brunt of the failure to adequately protect and ensure access to long-term business information. How is Digital Transformation (DX) impacting the need for digital preservation solutions?

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Introducing the Information Governance Maturity Model (IGIM)

ARMA International

At ARMA InfoCon 2019, we launched a survey. The results of that survey will be used to create an IG Maturity Index, a point-in-time assessment of IG maturity. Are your organization’s taxonomy and metadata consistent across systems? One such initiative currently underway is the creation of the IG Maturity Index.