Businesses are struggling to manage the mass of electronic office documents.

06/04/2009

According to research from AIIM - the not for profit content-management organisation, nearly half of all businesses are stuggling to manage the mass of electronic office documents coming in and out of the company.

The research also revealed that business drivers for enterprise content management have changed with more weighting on cost saving and efficiency. This is a shift from the compliance drivers from a couple of years ago and has been accelerated by the economic climate.

"For many organisations, poorly managed and out-of-control information represents a huge potential source of bottom line savings in this tight economy." ... "Controlled content can be fed into business processes to speed them up, cut down travel via project collaboration and form a knowledge base for the business. Uncontrolled content represents a lost opportunity, and a major compliance risk." said John Mancini, president of AIIM.

Bringing content and information into a controlled and searchable environment can help companies save money through more efficient business processes, lower storage requirements and enhanced productivity. The AIIM survey also found that spending on document-centric business process management and workflow is likely to grow strongly in 2009, with enterprise search, email management, document management and records management all set to show positive growth over the coming months.