The ABC's of Document Management...

Tips that spell success for your organization

EDMS, ECM, BPM, KM, ERM, HSM… Huh?!? The document management industry certainly isn’t lacking acronyms to describe just about everything. But does anyone really know what all of these letters mean? On second thought, does it really matter? If you know your business needs to automate its processes, reduce inefficiencies, and save resources, it shouldn’t matter which letters you use to describe the technology.

The article Content Management Technologies and Alphabet Soup: 26 Tips to Spell Success makes better use of letters, providing a helpful step for every letter of the alphabet. If you apply each of them during your project implementation, you’ll be off to a great start. Here’s a look:

Align your business and IT goals. Some of the greatest project failures result from a mismatch. IT’s role is to support business objectives, but IT resources are often stretched. Educate each other. Negotiate.

Budget carefully. Software and hardware alone don’t represent Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Customizations, disaster recovery planning, training, and testing carry costs. Plan accordingly.

Collaborate with all of your department managers. Set enterprise goals even if you’re starting with a departmental project. Think globally. Otherwise, you’ll find yourself reworking projects unnecessarily.

Continue reading to see the other 23 tips so you can advance towards a successful document management project.

If all of the letters still have your head spinning, check out AIIM’s Definition of Acronyms.

Bottom line:

You don’t have to be a spelling bee champion to be successful with ECM. As long as the solution does what you need it to do, it doesn’t really matter which letters you use to describe the technology.

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Let us help you spell success with DocFinity. Contact us today to tell us about your challenges and we’ll provide you with a solution. (Warning: acronyms are probably included!)

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