AIIM study reveals ECM drivers.AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management International, Silver Spring, MD, www.aiim.org) A membership organization founded in 1943 devoted to creating industry standards and disseminating information about the document management industry. International's biannual bi·an·nu·al adj. 1. Happening twice each year; semiannual. 2. Occurring every two years; biennial. bi·an survey of current and potential end users of enterprise content management (ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. ) technologies reveals that 60 percent are still in the early stages of understanding ECM. ECM refers to the technologies used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to business and organizational processes. AIIM surveyed 220 users and prospective users during the first six months of 2004 about the status of ECM deployment within their organizations, perceived per·ceive tr.v. per·ceived, per·ceiv·ing, per·ceives 1. To become aware of directly through any of the senses, especially sight or hearing. 2. To achieve understanding of; apprehend. obstacles to implementing ECM technologies, business drivers, and implementation plans for the next 12-18 months. The survey titled "Industry Watch Study: Why Enterprise Content Management? Why Now?" also found that organizations are beginning to realize that ECM technologies represent a core piece of the information infrastructure--a piece that is critical to compliance and cost-reduction. Other key findings include: * User project interests over the next 12-18 months focus on records management and archiving archiving Informatics The storage of data in archives. See Mirroring, Optical disk archiving. image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished (41 percent), forms handling (36 percent), and information capture (36 percent). * User technology interests include: Web content management (45 percent), scanning scanning /scan·ning/ (skan´ing) 1. the act of examining by passing over an area or organ with a sensing device. 2. scanning speech. and image processing (41 percent), records management (40 percent), and electronic document management (36 percent). * Risk redtlction and cost control--rather than revenue growth--are clearly driving user interest in ECM technologies. * The biggest obstacles facing potential ECM end users are justifying the improvement (23 percent) and change management (22 percent). * More than 25 percent of end user organizations have not even begun implementing ECM. "Clearly, ECM technologies are moving from the department to the enterprise," says John Mancini The name Mancini can refer to
The full survey results can be accessed at www.aiim.org/viewpdfa. asp?ID=28967. What is the most challenging aspect of information/content management for your organization? Planning/Managing implementation, change management 22% Justifying the investment, board commitment 23% Understanding/Specifying requirements 14% Selecting products/Suppliers 6% Getting employee commitment 16% Content control, data migration, and classification 16% Other 3% Source: AIIM International |
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