Selecting a document management vendor is challenging work, but with the right steps, you can make the best choice at the right price. Before you begin, it’s important to understand your document... View More
What is disruption? Clayton Christensen in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma defined innovative disruption as a “process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications... View More
Merriam-Webster adds thousands of new words and phrases to the dictionary each year. Some recent additions include FOMO (fear of missing out), athleisure, and meet-cute. While it’s not yet officially... View More
Experienced business leaders are constantly looking for ways to improve and make the most of their resources. Whether driven by a need to cut costs or the pursuit of a competitive advantage, cloud adoption... View More
Walk through any expo floor and chances are that you will see a half a dozen vendors touting “content analytics." In document management, it's the cool “new” topic. The problem is that... View More
Today, many structured and unstructured documents are being searched for business-critical information, or at the very least, people say that they should be searchable. This is important, but what makes... View More
The first major consolidation in the enterprise content management (ECM) marketplace occurred when IBM bought FileNet in 2006, the first time two major players united to form one large, multi-repository... View More
What would happen if the US government eliminated all large currency? What if your $20, $50, and $100 bills became illegal, and you had to turn them in or lose the money. Can’t happen? On March 9,... View More
Data and analytics have redefined the way we compete. Data is a critical corporate asset that organizations are starting to monetize in new ways to get ahead of their competition. The bottom line? Companies... View More
Cleaning up shared drives to eliminate redundant, outdated, trivial (ROT) content is pretty easy to do—it has high value for information technology (IT) by freeing up valuable storage, and it has... View More
Improving the customer experience is a key concern of every business, and delivering omni-channel communications is an essential requirement of these strategies. However, delivering transformation in this... View More
Each year, the industry’s leading analysts assess the customer communications management (CCM) landscape using reason, logic, and customer feedback to describe the market to tens of thousands of... View More
We all know it’s important to have a strategy in place when implementing our information management programs, especially in organizations that are large, complex, or heavily regulated, but how many... View More
IBM and other mainframe companies established the concept of software as a service (SaaS) as far back as the 1960s. Since then, SaaS has come a long way in enabling companies to shift electronic content... View More
Last year, I wrote an article titled, “What Does Culture Have to Do with Information Management?" which made the case for addressing culture as a part of any successful information management implementation... View More
What is the value of a piece of mail? A large insurance company or healthcare provider that depends on mail campaigns for customer transactions and marketing initiatives might estimate the cost of a simple... View More
Today, organizations are increasing the deployment of electronic content management (ECM) technologies to support information governance (IG)/records and information management (RIM) goals and to improve... View More
IDC defines digital transformation (DX) as the use of "3rd Platform" technologies (cloud, mobility, data analytics, and social business) to create value and competitive advantage through new offerings,... View More
A lot has been written about the benefits of enterprise content management (ECM). Although most of what I read is correct, it usually only shows a part of the whole subject. So, I wanted to clarify the... View More
There is a crisis in enterprise communications and collaboration—due in large part to the overwhelming technology and application silos that cause a lot of user complexity and confusion. Enterprise... View More