It’s not good enough for today’s successful organizations to just implement an an Enterprise ContentManagement (ECM) solution and hope for the best; it takes time – time to plan, time to adjust, and especially time to choose the right vendor. In fact, when companies fail to take the necessary time needed to accurately choose the Continue reading
Information Governance (IG) is a critical component for today’s businesses because all companies are mandated to preserve vast amounts of information in a manner that complies with government regulations. But IG goes beyond specifying how information should be preserved; it also pertains to controlling how information is created, secured, accessed, distributed, and ultimately destroyed for Continue reading
Capturing information is the first step in any Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution. An organization’s capture strategy can determine the success or failure of their overall ECM initiative. The right capture technology can improve entire business workflows such as order-to-cash, service request-to-resolution, or onboarding processes. A successful capture strategy using ECM software can also improve Continue reading
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) offers incentives and tax credits to small businesses; while many employers and employees won’t pay any additional taxes under the ACA, there is a requirement for employers with 50 or more full-time employees to offer health insurance or pay a penalty starting in 2016. 50 percent of Americans today depend Continue reading
Education administration and management has always been a paper-heavy field. From admissions and student registration, to financial aid, human resources and accounting, the industry has traditionally relied on paper documents to get things done. The advent of e-textbooks and tablet readers is already revolutionizing the classroom, yet the administrative side of the industry still mostly Continue reading
Enterprise Content Management started with a single objective:reduce the paper needed to run a business. Over the years, the goal grew more ambitious: to provide digital tools that manage all types of content across the enterprise. To accomplish this broader purpose, ECM solutions evolved in complexity to include the following content management functions:
Businesses and theorists are always trying to anticipate the next big thing. In his 1971 book Future Shock, futurist Alvin Toffler hypothesized how technology would change the way we work, theorizing we would exist in a constant state of shock due to the incredible speed of change. I’m not sure we live in constant shock, Continue reading
Where do you start when your organization decides to go paperless? You may be inclined to start building something right away, or your company may prefer to find a commercial off-the-shelf product. There are even some organizations that choose to hire a consultant to build it for them. But the best place to start is Continue reading
The broad adoption of Microsoft SharePoint provides an option for many IT departments to build a solution which was previously only available as a pre-packaged solution. But because they can, does that mean they should? If your organization is trying to decide whether to buy an ECM solution from a vendor, or build a custom Continue reading