Stories about: AIIM

Raise your hand if you're tired of the perpetual debate about how important the CIO role is to the business. (I'm picturing a veritable sea of hands out there.) I know I'm beyond bored with discussions about who's got a "seat at the table" and who doesn't. I don't care if the CIO reports to the chief executive or to the CFO. And I've lost all interest in whether the top IT exec rose up through the programmer ranks or hopped a cubicle wall from the business side.

The technology industry is at a significant turning point in moving from data management to the broader content management and information integration, said Janet Perna, IBM Corp.'s general manager of data management solutions.

Content management wares took center stage at the AIIM 2003 Conference in New York , as vendors unveiled offerings designed to pull together content, portal, and process management capabilities.

Lexmark International announced a series of new printer products, ranging from workgroup to personal printers, in a flurry of news from the AIIM Exposition and Conference in New York on Monday.

With 2003 around the corner, consider these New Year's resolutions: Better secure your networks, more efficiently manage your company's content, and rethink how to exploit the Internet.

Several vendors here Tuesday said that CM (content management) is evolving to include a broader variety of data types and new functionality and, in so doing, is broadening the ways CM can be used to add value throughout the organization.

At the AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) 2002 Conference in San Francisco last week, vendors targeted the heart of enterprise CM (content management) needs, bolstering security and integration in platforms designed to control the flow of corporate data.

Most enterprises today are crippled by the inability to integrate information locked in silos across the organization -- a critical failure in efforts to improve relationships with customers, suppliers, and employees, according to Greg Peters, chairman and CEO of Vignette.

The latest developments in enterprise content management will soak up the limelight at the AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) 2002 Conference in San Francisco this week, as vendors such as Documentum, Ipedo, Ektron, and Wright Technologies (Canada) roll out systems for digital asset management and XML control.

Businesses' reasons for investing in data management infrastructure are shifting from back-office, cost-reduction objectives to customer-oriented, revenue-generating goals, according to a study conduced by AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) International and Gartner Group Inc. and released at this week's AIIM 2001 conference.

"The centralised Web development team model is dead," declared Interwoven President and Chief Executive Officer Martin Brauns in the opening keynote of AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) 2001 in New York.