If you’re like me, you’ve probably read a lot of articles about SharePoint’s business benefits (e.g. collaboration, workflows, etc.) but rarely found articles that discuss the RIM implications of implementing this increasingly ubiquitous technology. You’ve also probably searched in vain for RIM information in books about SharePoint. And apart from some sessions at ARMA conferences
I attended second thought-provoking presentation at last week’s Infonex seminar, Managing E-records in Canada’s Public Sector, in Ottawa. In his presentation, “Defining and Implementing a Practical, Real-Life Information Governance Plan (IGP) for your Organization“, Bruce Miller (President, RIMtech) covered numerous topics such as policies, roles and responsibilities, change management, and performance measurement for electronic document and records management systems (EDRMS)
Earlier this month, Gartner released the 2012 edition of the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management (ECM).
The Magic Quadrant for ECM focuses on the technology side of ECM by evaluating the functionality of numerous ECM systems to help organizations “assess which ECM vendors have the functional capabilities and vision to support . . . [their] business requirements, and to determine which would therefore make suitable strategic partners.”
Gartner evaluates vendors on six core components of an ECM suite: 1) document management; 2) image-processing applications; 3) workflow/business process management (BPM); 4) records management through automation; 5) web content management (WCM); and 6) social content for document sharing, collaboration and knowledge management.
Read the full article to see how vendors compare in the 2012 Magic Quadrant for ECM
Sheila Taylor is a well known consultant, educator, speaker and writer with more than 25 years of experience in the information management (IM) field.
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