SharePoint 2010 for Records Management – Add-On Requirements and Capabilities that take it to the Enterprise Mike Alsup Senior Vice President for Gimmal Group ERM SharePoint This post describes a set of additional requirements that extend the records management capabilities of SharePoint 2010 to be an enterprise solution that doesn’t require a separate content manag…read more The Social Organization: Part II Rich Blank, Management Consultant for Independent Social Business SharePoint In my last post, I raised the question that’s on all our minds: why are our professional lives socially challenged? Having a Facebook business page or Twitter account does not mean you are a … read more Glad I am not a customer – sometimes Hanns Kohler-Kruner, Principal Consultant for HKK Consulting Social Business Well, for the last 6 months I have been cloistered away, well actually it has been a lot longer, trying to get the AIIM Social Business Buyers Guide together. After initial decisions about wh… read more Putting a Claim on OCR in the Insurance Industry Joe Budelli Senior Vice President of Sales for ABBYY USA Capture I’d like to invite my colleague, Scott Thompson, senior product marketing manager, to the AIIM Community Blog to discuss OCR…

Excerpt from AIIM’s new Capture Software Product Study on… What is Batch Transaction Capture Software?… Batch Transaction Capture Software is used primarily to understand and extract data from documents in order to feed back-end database applications or business process analysis. It is designed to replace manual, error-prone, and expensive document sorting and data entry processes with automatic document classification, separation, and data extraction. Once the data is extracted and validated, the images may be used as back-up and stored in records management repositories or passed through a workflow process for manual review and correction or exception processing. The physical paper then gets stored or, in some cases, destroyed depending on records management procedures. One advantage of classification technologies combined with transactional understanding is the ability to differentiate between different documents in order to improve the decision making which can reduce storage needs and cost. The early versions of these systems are being used to automatically process similar types of forms that are pre-sorted— often called structured forms (i.e., forms with the same layout). Examples are medical claims, tax returns, surveys, and applications. These types of forms have the data located in the same location and can use a zonal OCR…

There is something very wrong with how organizations manage information of business or legal value. Most ECM or ERM systems are not deployed across an enterprise — they are usually implemented in large and regulated industries to improve the control of information in a specific department or process. Why do so few business executives care about records management? The answer is complex, but here are a few thoughts…

There is something very wrong with how organizations manage information of business or legal value. Most ECM or ERM systems are not deployed across an enterprise — they are usually implemented in large and regulated industries to improve the control of information in a specific department or process. Why do so few business executives care about records management? The answer is complex, but here are a few thoughts…