Content Management Matters ™

Looks like Europe also hangs out on the SharePoint bandwagon. This news is according to the content management association -- AIIM Europe. Annual survey results show what we already know here in North America, that organizations intend to use MOSS, but have no formal plans for application.

Try as they may, organizations are still not getting Enterprise 2.0. This according to the AIIM Market Intelligence group's Market IQ study "Enterprise 2.0: Agile, Emergent and Integrated".

It seems everyone acknowledges it and appears to want it, but what exactly "it" is -- is still unclear in the minds of many.

AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, has announced the results of its annual user survey and as the title suggests, overall customer confidence in email archiving ain't what it used to be.

AIIM has released their 2008 State of the Industry Survey and according to their findings, organizations of all sizes have "crossed the chasm" in their awareness of the importance of solving the document, records, and content problems that are affecting their organization.

Wondering what trends to expect for content management this year? Well wonder no more. InformationWeek's George Dearing has provided us with his Top 5 Trends for 2008. We also found a few more that tickled our fancy.

March 3-6, 2008 hearlds the annual AIIM International Expo and Conference in Boston, MA. Sponsored by AIIM – The ECM Association, it should be a very enlightening and educational experience for anyone who works in the content and information management field.

Need to get a handle on the ever-changing rules of records management for the almighty internet? The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) is conducting a webinar tomorrow from 2-3PM Eastern.

During "State of Electronic Records Management," speaker Bob Larrivee of AIIM will walk you through the following fresh criteria:

• How modern organizations apply records management policies
• Best practices and new technologies
• Ensuring regulatory compliance while using new technologies
• Improving enterprise efficiency amidst all this new techno hoo-ha

If you happen to be super-exacting, you can follow along with the New Rules of the Road pull-out, available on the AIIM site.

The webinar is sponsored by Plasmon alongside AIIM, in conjunction with a number of big brands (EMC, IBM, ABBYY, Kodak, TOWER) that make your professional development less painful on the wallet. Make tomorrow slightly more productive; register now.

The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) will be conducting a lunchtime seminar series in Denver, CO on 6 December.

The presentation, entitled RFP 101 - Requirements Management, features Performance Analyst Dave Halbig of First Data Corp. Halbig will go into the details of Use Case Development, a technique for gathering and socializing requirements.

The seminar will take place at the 4-Points Sheraton on Hampden. The cost is US$ 30 for AIIM non-members, and US$ 20 for members. You can make payments via PayPal or at the door, in which case you must pay with cash only, and add another US$ 5 to the cost.

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CMS Watch and AIIM are joining forces to help enterprises in North America and Europe better understand business process management.

CMS Watch is an analyst firm that releases industry-oriented reports, while AIIM serves as the international authority on ECM, providing courses, certification and awards in the sector.

ECM industry association AIIM Europe has just released its survey results from the AIIM Roadshow, which hit 5 cities in the UK last month. Survey says, good news -- overall planned spend for ECM technologies is holding strong, despite falling cost-per-seat.

Which really just means plusher seats all around.

Considering its notable release of Acrobat 8 just months ago, and withstanding some recent criticisms we've published, it's clear Adobe is not shy about raising the bar for the next generation of document collaboration and security software.

So it comes as little surprise that this year Adobe plans to drive towards ISO standardization of its PDF specification. According to Adobe Chief Software Architect Kevin Lynch, this means PDF will evolve from de facto security standard to de jure. As, he doesn't hesitate to add, "it should."

Considering its notable release of Acrobat 8 just months ago, and withstanding some recent criticisms we've published, it's clear Adobe is not shy about raising the bar for the next generation of document collaboration and security software.

So it comes as little surprise that this year Adobe plans to drive towards ISO standardization of its PDF specification. According to Adobe Chief Software Architect Kevin Lynch, this means PDF will evolve from de facto security standard to de jure. As, he doesn't hesitate to add, "it should."

According to InfoWorld, "CIOs and their IT departments will find themselves on the firing line in most major business litigation." Feeling unprepared for the expectations raised by eDiscovery? According to enterprise lawyers and a recent AIIM survey, most businesses are.

Remember the game of Operator when you were little? You tell your friend something, they tell their friend something, and so on? And by the time the statement got to the last friend in the line, it no way resembled what you said to begin with?

Well, such is the case with content sometimes too. How do you make sure the content that you start with stays the same, and just as important, as effective for every person who uses it?

A recent AIIM survey on electronic records management tells a story that's all too familiar: in most organizations, managing electronic records still lags far behind paper records management.

That companies generally fail to adequately address e-mail and electronic document retention is news neither to us nor to AIIM.