Category Archives: Content Management
Business Process Analysis – Part I
I thought I would chronicle the latest project that I am working on. The project is a Data Management (i.e. Content Management) for a large Engineering firm. It’s a classic scenario where data and documents are co-mingled into silos of applications that need to … Continue reading
Quantifying Records Management
Those in the ECM community, Risk Management, Legal, IT and the Corporate Board Rooms have discussed why we need records management. Most of the discussions center around Compliance followed by Cost Savings. There are many variations on these themes but generally they … Continue reading
Document Capture
Much has already been written about capturing paper documents and their storage and retrieval. Technology exists at all levels for the capture of paper documents, from the mass scanning of documents, to full document OCR, and zone able OCR. The … Continue reading
Enterprise library
Everything a corporation owns is subject to discovery. Paper files, electronic, email, reports, web pages you get the idea. In making everything a company owns accessible and electronic, it also makes everything discoverable in a much more comprehensive and meaningful … Continue reading
Types of RM Systems
RM or RMS Records Management Systems, which were once stand-alone platforms that mostly handled box management, have now been merged into larger organizations and now make up a component of a larger information management offering. DM or DMS Document Management … Continue reading
Record System Terminology
There are phrases and terms that are key in the records management community, many of which are also used in the technology and business communities. But across these communities, the terminology is often used in inconsistent and overlapping ways, which … Continue reading
What users see in an ECM
There is an art to Taxonomy design. When using an ECM package that has a folder structure as a part of its core method of storing documents (ie #Opentext or #SharePoint) there are many ways to implement this folder structure … Continue reading
Enterprise Library not ECM
We hear a lot of acronyms thrown around in the Content Management space. Each having their own unique definition or being an aggregator of previous acronyms (take ECM for example). Here are just a few: WCM DM RM ECM EDMS … Continue reading
ARMA International Show
Well ARMA 2008 has come to a close. It was held in Las Vegas this year and being that it was my first trip to the city of sin, I must say that it will probably be my last. Since … Continue reading
The ISO Standards that affect ECM
Later this month I will be presenting at the ARMA 2008 show in Las Vegas. The Topic of my presentation will be How the ISO Standards Affect your ECM Implementation. The learning objectives of the presentation are as follows: … Continue reading