AIIM Seminar Educates Industry Professionals on Managing Their Business Content, Documents, and Records

AIIM - the enterprise content management association brings their Content Management Solutions Seminar to New York city on Monday, October 3. Professionals from local businesses (financial services, manufacturing, education, healthcare, and utilities), state and local government, and non-profits are invited to attend this free educational event to learn how to better manage their business content, documents, and records.

"No matter the size of an organization, nor the industry, chances are business and government professionals are inundated with information in the form of records, content, and documents. And it doesn't need to be in hard copy to create problems. Information drives our core business capabilities and yet it's an asset we frequently neglect," states John Mancini, president of AIIM "Taking steps to manage paper, electronic, and web content can dramatically improve business performance, reduce costs and risk, streamline processes, and improve efficiencies."

Through industry research, moderated discussions, peer networking, and case study presentations, attendees at AIIM's Content Management Solutions Seminar will learn how to establish the business case for ECM, identify business requirements, write an effective RFP, develop package selection criteria, and determine ROI.

About the event:

Event: AIIM Content Management Solutions Seminar

Location: New York's Hotel Pennsylvania (located at 401 Seventh Avenue (at 33rd St.), New York, NY 10001)

Date: Monday, October 3, 2005

Time: 7:30 am - 3:00 pm

Cost: FREE

Register at http://www.aiim.org/CMSolutions/cmss-event.asp?ID=3132

Opening General Session: Research Reveals the Business Drivers for ECM

Presented by AIIM - The ECM Association

AIIM surveys its community of end-users several times a year to find out how organizations are tackling such issues as document management, compliance, email management, storage, and security of business information. We look for specific industry trends and best practices. Attendees will learn how their peers are handling their content management challenges, and where they compare in the process.

ECM from the Trenches (Interactive Discussion)

Moderated by Doculabs (industry analyst firm)

Attendees will learn about real-life ECM implementations from their peers in the trenches. What were their project goals; what challenges did they have (internal/external); and was the implementation a success? If not, why? What would they do differently the next time? These real-life experiences will help business professionals and their organizations to set project goals, determine system requirements, and validate return on investment (ROI).

Closing General Session: ECM without a Strategy, is a Recipe for Disaster

Presented by Doculabs (industry analyst firm)

Once organizations realize that Enterprise Content Management is an integral part of their technology agenda, they need to ensure that they develop a sound strategy that will maintain ECM throughout their enterprise. Success in ECM is dependent upon the effort a business invests in technology, people, and planning. This investment starts with strategy. In this session, Doculabs will discuss the elements that all organizations must consider in their ECM initiatives: getting executive buy-in, developing a successful strategy, managing your ECM architecture, and leveraging ECM beyond the first six months

Case study presentations will include the following:

How Avon Products streamlined its accounts payable processes with a services-based document imaging and workflow solution.

How a major aerospace company uses capture solutions for extracting data from thousands of purchase orders a day.

How MetLife found value by extending managed content through integrating with third-party products.

How the Department of Transportation / National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is extending content management technology to solve business problems and efficiently service their constituents.

How four different organizations in financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, and government use content to dramatically improve operations and customer service, enforce business policies for information retention, all while lowering costs.

How the U.S. Department of Commerce and National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) implemented document imaging and data capturing technologies to improve the preservation of their documents and data.

How a financial services organization uses "dashboards" to monitor and control compliance initiatives.

For an agenda of the day's program, visit http://www.aiim.org/CMSolutions/cmss-event.asp?ID=3132.

Vendors companies participating in the seminar include many of the top solution providers: ABBYY, Archive Systems, Captaris, Captiva, CASO, CVISION, Doculabs, Eastman Kodak, EMC, EMC/Documentum, Fujitsu, HP, Hummingbird, Hyland, Kofax, Oce, Percussion, Plasmon, Q.Know, Solimar Systems, Sourcecorp, Stellent, Vignette, Visioneer. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet with representatives in the DEMO Room at any time during the day.

About AIIM

AIIM, the international authority on Enterprise Content Management (ECM), is leading the way to the understanding, adoption and use of ECM technologies. These technologies, tools, and methods are used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content across an enterprise in support of business processes. As a non-profit association for more than 60 years, AIIM provides industry news and information, educational events and professional development, market analysis, industry standards development, publications, regional chapters, and executive networking. Complete information about AIIM is available on the Web at www.aiim.org, by e-mail at aiim@aiim.org, or by telephone at 301.587.8202/800.477.2446.

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