Readers of this blog know that this week we spent a fair amount of time at the AIIM show. You also realize that AIIM Market Intelligence has been spending much effort lately on the subject of Enterprise 2.0 (blogging, a recent webinar, training program, market survey, upcoming Market IQ, and associated Market IQ webinar.) At the show I delivered a one hour presentation on the intersection of Enterprise 2.0 and ECM (download slides used). Dan Keldsen and I also rolled out the just completed Enterprise 2.0 practitioner training.
Things went real well. But don't take my word for it. An attendee, Ron Miller, recently posted a commentary on the AIIM show. To paraphrase Ron, ECM is relevant (again), and one reason is the focus on Enterprise 2.0 this year. I agree Ron. Thanks for noticing.
As I stated in my inaugural post, I joined AIIM in order to broaden the direction of ECM, quote: "Please join me in TakingAIIM, in placing different technologies, applications, solution providers and industry trends into the cross hairs of TakingAIIM."
It is most rewarding to see that individuals, such as Ron also share this exciting new horizon for ECM. To that end I must thank organizations such as SpringCM, Socialtext and EMC who have underwritten our market research on Enterprise 2.0. They too share our excitement and vision for Enterprise 2.0. Because of their generosity we can make this research available to the market at no cost.
The upcoming report, available for download on the AIIM site on March 24th, promises to be a groundbreaking educational resource to the market. It contains the results of months of research, including the results of an 80+ question survey, completed by 414 users and evaluators of Enterprise 2.0. I encourage those who are excited by the recent coverage of ECM and Enterprise 2.0 to be sure and join us for the March 27th webinar in which we discuss the survey findings.
But this is just the beginning. Is ECM still relevant? Well as long as there are enterprises and they have content, ECM is relevant, and AIIM Market Intelligence will chronicle the latest points of relevancy. Over the course of the next year, in addition to the Market IQ on Enterprise 2.0, we will be developing other Market IQs on topics such as ECM and managing business processes, the criticality of findability, the state of the art in content creation and content distribution and ECM and innovation management.
If there are other compelling business areas that you think are impacted by ECM, let me know, by commenting here.
