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Build a Cloud-First Content Management Strategy in Three Simple Steps

AIIM

Reduce Storage Costs – by getting rid of your ROT (redundant, obsolete or trivial) data BEFORE migration, plus the potential cost saving of infrastructure maintenance over license fees. Step 1: Improve Content Metadata. High-quality metadata is essential to improving search results. Step 2: Classify Your Data.

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MS Teams Information Governance - A Checklist for Success

AIIM

Make the most of metadata by utilizing systems that help automate how metadata is applied while retaining unstructured data in place. Put more intelligence into governance either by auto-tagging and categorizing content to kick off a retention workflow or by proactively managing the archival of business content and disposal of ROT.

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Common Problems with Content Migrations

AIIM

Process Dependencies: Work processes, both manual and automated, may rely on how a system works, what its reports contain, how its metadata is structured, and more. Missing Metadata: This is often the case because new fields were added; in many instances, these new fields are also mandatory. This is also known as metadata enrichment.

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Implementing Information Management on SharePoint and Office365

AIIM

There is no SharePoint fairy that assesses all your information, uploads just the valuable stuff to SharePoint, applies appropriate access controls, and fills in the metadata. It includes leveraging SharePoint's capabilities to streamline and automate common tasks like applying metadata, retention management, and basic workflows.

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5 Reasons Your Files and Records are ROT(ting)

Gimmal

Redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) information likely dominates your content stores. We collect data from organizations every day to understand why information governance problems exist, and there are generally five reason your files are ROT(ting). Five Reasons Your Files are ROT(ting) 1. Does it drive workflow?

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Records Management in the Intelligent Information Era

AIIM

Metadata Capture and Remediation: Again, users are the problem with metadata more than the solution. We can automate metadata capture at the time information is captured; we can also correct missing or incorrect metadata, at speed and at scale.

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Does Your Content Drive Organizational Value?

AIIM

Organizations must embrace AI and ML tools to take the friction out of the process of manually classifying incoming information and assigning relevant metadata. AI and ML capabilities need to be viewed in two contexts by user organizations. The result: an unmitigated content mess!