Cloudy with a chance of AIIM

by. David Jones

This year the AIIM Conference headed to sunny Orlando, with the organization that originally coined the term ECM now moving onto a new horse – Information Governance (IG).

AIIM has often been accused of either being behind the times or, ironically, being too ahead of the game. That’s why the annual conference is so important. It provides an opportunity each year to allow the ECM/Information Governance populous to take to the stage and deliver their view of what is happening in the industry.

Here are my top three takeaways.

1.       Cloud is here

I’ve been touting the importance and impending arrival of ECM in the Cloud for a while now. Well, it appears that the rest of the ECM community is now starting to agree with me – every second conversation seemed to be about the cloud. But there is still confusion over exactly “what” ECM in the Cloud can be – is it file-sharing, external access to on-premises content, or shrink-wrapped, rapid delivery SaaS services?

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