Conquer Information Chaos

Call for Speakers from Questex

CALL FOR SPEAKERS
AIIM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE & EXPO
BOSTON CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTER
MARCH 3-6, 2008

Final Submission Deadline: SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

The AIIM International Conference & Exposition is the world’s largest annual event serving the enterprise content and information management space, and we’re currently seeking qualified speakers to deliver presentations at the upcoming conference. The AIIM International Conference & Exposition is organized by Questex Media Group, and co-sponsored by AIIM.

If you’re an end-user, a consultant/analyst, or a solution provider willing to present with a client, please consider speaking at this year’s conference.

Sessions will focus on the assessment, selection and/or implementation of the following technologies, as well as the organizational/business issues associated with their adoption (making the business case, TCO, getting end user buy-in, etc.):

• Compliance & Risk Management
• Digital Rights Management
• Document & Records Management
• ECM Essentials
• Search & Text Mining / Business Intelligence
• Information Classification & Taxonomies / Unstructured Data Management
• Information Infrastructure
• Web Services
• Web Content Management / Portals
• Business Process Management / Workflow

To be considered for inclusion in the conference program, vendor and consultant submissions must include at least one customer co-presenter (note: customer must be an end user, not another product/service provider). End user panels are also welcomed.

The AIIM International Conference & Exposition provides a wide variety of promotional opportunities outside of the main conference program. To learn more about exhibiting or other sponsorship programs, please contact Leo Squatrito at lsquatrito@questex.com, or call 617-219-8378.

CFP Procedure

All submissions must be received electronically via the on-line form located at http://cfp.questex.com/callforpapers.

For your submission to be considered, it MUST be received by September 10, 2007.

Please note that all speakers selected to present will receive complimentary admission to the conference. No other compensation will be provided.

Should you have any questions regarding the event or the application form, please contact Jennifer Marcus at jmarcus@questex.com, or call 617-219-8330.

Benefits of Bar Coding

My colleague Atle Skjekkeland came across this on the Benefits of Bar Coding and I thought it might be a good break on a Friday afternoon. Enjoy.

Top 10 Records Management Blogs

Top 10 Records Management Blogs (in terms of Technorati authority, with topic of "records management")

CMS Watch: Content Management, Enterprise Search, and Portal Reports
http://www.cmswatch.com
Authority: 273

ECM Industry Watch – My blog! -- thanks for your support!
http://www.aiim.typepad.com
Authority: 59

Microsoft Records Management Team Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/recman
Authority: 51

AIIM Knowledge Center Blog – Another AIIM blog from our education group!
http://www.aiimknowledgecenter.typepad.com
Authority: 36

practice management blog
http://dcbalpm.wordpress.com
Authority: 29

Informata
http://informata.blogspot.com
Authority: 24

@rchivista
http://archivista.wordpress.com
Authority: 21

Records management futurewatch
http://rmfuturewatch.blogspot.com
Authority: 11

DLM Forum & MoReq2 – Yet another AIIM blog!
http://dlmforum.typepad.com
Authority: 10

StorageSwitched!
http://www.storageswitch.com/blog
Authority: 10

Time Running Out to Be Listed in AIIM On Line Guide...

Link: AIIM, The ECM Association - Buyers Guide Administrator.

I don't usually use this blog to promote our stuff, but if you are a document or records solution provider, this is a great deal. And not just because I run AIIM. $1,000. Distribution via print to 70,000. On-line listing -- we get over half a million unique visitors per year. It's better than anything else you can get out there...

And don't forget this past posting on marketing effectiveness....

Building a Document RFP?

If you are in the process of creating an RFP for a Document or Records Management system, I recommend that you check out the AIIM Recommended Practice (from our Standards Group) on Analysis, Selection, and Implementation of Electronic
Document Management Systems (EDMS). It may not sound sexy -- I tease the standards folks about this all the time - but it's good solid information that is extremely useful in constructing an RFP. And the information has been vetted through the standards process, so you know it's reliable.

The document provides detailed information associated with the analysis, selection, and implementation procedures associated with Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMS). The development of this document is a result of organizational requests related to receiving industry, vendor-neutral information associated with industry standardized recommendations associated with standards, technical reports, guidelines, and best practices related to project activities.

Org Structure and Information Governance

My colleague Carl Weise has posted some interesting observations about the Organizational Structure and Information Governance. Carl is a Certified Records Manager and a trainer in AIIM's certificate training program.

Link: AIIM Knowledge Center Blog: The Organization Structure Needed within an Information governance framework for an ERM Program.

If you haven't yet checked out our training program, you should. Over 4,200 students have gone through our first 2 programs -- on Electronic Records Management and Enterprise Content Management -- making AIIM the largest provider of user-focused education and training on records and documents in the world. In the next week, we will launch 2 new programs -- on BPM (Business Process Management) and IOA (Information Organization and Access). The content is terrific -- I viewed it in beta a few weeks ago. For an overview of the entire program, go HERE.

Using Intelligent Document Recognition to Automate Enterprise Content Management

Here's a white paper that we just released...

By now, American business has conceded that the myth of the “paperless office” will indeed remain a myth. The main reason: paper has real utility. If it did not, we would not be making and distributing as many copies of each document as we do, and the printing industry would be dying.

While it is true that somewhere around 70 percent of all new corporate documents are digitally created, the remaining 30 percent that are distributed and processed as paper documents will stay at that rate and remain a problem for the foreseeable future. Moreover, a large quantity of forms that originate digitally are still printed and distributed as paper documents.

Link: Recognize This - an AIIM White Paper.

MFDs and Distributed Capture Go Together...

Rise of the MFDs...To download a copy of AIIM's new survey on Distributed Scanning and Capture, go to http://www.aiim.org/article-industrywatch.asp?ID=33454.

The results indicate that network-attached MFDs (defined in the survey as “network-attached devices that copy, print, and scan”) are an important part of the Distributed Scanning and Capture equation. 60% of end users identify MFDs as “important” or “very important” to their programs. This is followed fairly closely by departmental scanners.

Transaction Automation Key to Distributed Capture Deployment

To download a copy of AIIM's new survey on Distributed Scanning and Capture, go to http://www.aiim.org/article-industrywatch.asp?ID=33454.

There are a number of specific processes within Finance and Administration that are popular candidates for automation through the application of Distributed Scanning and Capture technologies. At the top of the list, as one might imagine, are invoice processing, document routing and approval, expense reports, billing and shipping consolidation, and purchase requisitions.

The relatively low utilization of Distributed Scanning and Capture in compliance processes is surprising given the role that Distributed Scanning and Capture can play in helping to place discipline around reporting processes by making them more secure and auditable.

Trends in Other Process Areas

Survey participants provided insight into targeted applications within the process areas outside of Finance and Administration as well. In the Human Resources arena, the most popular processes in terms of Distributed Scanning and Capture utilization are those related to new hires and personnel actions. The relatively low utilization in such areas as travel requests, leave requests, and time sheets is surprising, although the reason may be that many decentralized organizations have already implemented non-paper solutions in these areas, and thus Distributed Scanning and Capture could be redundant.

New hires and personnel action are mission critical processes for organizations (building the talent pool, and managing the pool/avoiding conflict). Thus it is astute of organizations to apply the benefits of Distributed Scanning and Capture to these processes, again echoing the earlier finding that the greatest befits associated with this technology are process efficiency, process control, and increased security (e.g., of confidential personnel matters). As more processes are fully automated (like leave requests and travel request) the overall market for Distributed Scanning and Capture will morph to reflect greater utilization of online forms.

In sales and marketing, the bias shown in Finance and Administration toward transaction-intensive processes is also shown. Order processing tops the list of Distributed Scanning and Capture applications followed closely by new account processing.

Distributed Capture charts available

We've published the charts from our Distributed Capture survey on Slideshare.net. To go to the presentation (there are also others there from past surveys if you are interested) go to http://www.slideshare.net/jmancini77/distributed-capture-survey/.