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We'll be having a special press briefing on the findings of our "State of Content Security" survey for bloggers on-line on THURSDAY November 1 at 11 a.m. For details and to get connected to the webinar, contact at . Dan can also get you information on downloading the survey if you haven't already done so.

Our ECM Profiles profiles series will explore the Security and Access Balancing Act in a webinar on November 8 at 12 noon Eastern. The speaker will be from international business management consulting firm, A.T. Kearney, who will discuss how A.T. Kearney has enabled secure access to intellectual property to help corporations gain and sustain competitive advantage. To register (it's free), go to THIS LINK.

On another note, at the most recent meeting of our European Advisory Trade Members, my colleague Carl Frappaolo from our Market Intelligence unit presented his views of the intersection between Enterprise 2.0 technologies and ECM. Carl published the presentation on Slideshare at . For those that are curious, the slides provide a brief glimpse into the focus of our next Market IQ, which will delve much more deeply into the role of Enterprise 2.0, its relationship with ECM technologies, including, but not limited to Content Security and the business challenges organizations face when embarking on Enterprise 2.0.

If you haven't downloaded the Content Security Market IQ survey, what are you waiting for...it's free! To get a copy, GO HERE. You need to be registered on the AIIM site to download a copy, but the report itself is free (part of our effort with our Market Intelligence reports to disseminate the information as widely as possible, rather than charge thousands of dollars for the research). The report is underwritten in part by six companies: certeon, EMC, Liquid Machines, Surety, CaseCentral, and Xerox Global Services. As part of the information dissemination for these quarterly reports, we'll also be doing webinars to help spread the results. The webinar for this report will be on November 1 at 2 p.m. Eastern time. To register, GO HERE.

Speaking of upcoming webinars (again, they're free!) here's one more coming up on search technologies.

Carl Frappaolo will be conducting a webinar on Universal Search: Is Your Critical Information Buried on Wednesday, November 7 at 2 pm Eastern. I mention it to blog readers because I think this particular topic is important to blog readers based on some of the comments I've received. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.

My "it's free" above is a bit tongue in check but also to answer a question that I am often asked by end users. Many end users often note all the free content we provide and ask why we do it. Our mission is pretty simple -- to provide high quality content at little or no cost to connect as many users as possible with the risk and process benefits of document and content technologies. How are we different from other analyst companies? Most of our stuff is free. How are we different from consulting groups? We don't do user implementation consulting. And as a non-profit association, any "profits" we make go right back into the industry we represent.

Moreq2 is getting closer to its final version. For the last year, Serco, formerly Cornwell Consultants, has been developing the Moreq2 standard for Records Management for the European Commission. Now, as the final version is getting closer, AIIM has decided to support the independent Consultants PROJECT CONSULT in Germany to bring this standard closer to the end-users. PROJECT CONSULT is also part of the editorial committee for this standard.

From the 26th-30th of November a series of Seminars will be held in Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Munich Frankfurt and Berlin. The Roadshow will cover content and ways to implement this important standard and will introduce it into the German market for the first time. The content will be entirely in German and will be supported by a number of vendors who have written Records management on their banners.

For more information CLICK HERE

Carl Frappaolo will be conducting a webinar on Universal Search on Wednesday, November 7. I mention it to blog readers because I think this particular topic is important to blog readers based on some of the comments I've received. I think this is one worth checking out...

Today’s knowledge workers spend a large part of their day attempting to locate critical content within their own directories. This “thrashing” between systems and repositories is frustrating, not to mention counter productive. Find out how to increase productivity by making all of your information usable to your workforce by unifying the search functionality across organizational content and applications.

Here are the details:
DATE: Wednesday, November 7, 2007
TIME: 2:00-3:00 P.M. (EASTERN), 1:00-2:00 P.M. (CENTRAL), 12:00-1:00 P.M. (MOUNTAIN), 11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. (PACIFIC), 7:00-8:00 P.M. (GT)
Speaker: Carl Frappaolo, Vice President, Market Intelligence

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.

For any of you blog readers who are document service providers (VARs, Service Companies, System Integrators), I wanted to take this opportunity to invite you to participate in our annual “State of the Document Management Service Providers” survey.

The survey should only take 5-10 minutes to complete. Individual responses will be kept confidential, and aggregated results will be presented at the annual Document Management Service Providers Executive Forum in Savannah, Georgia (http://www.aiim.org/dmspef).

Participants in the survey will receive a copy of the results; participation is a good way to do a little fast benchmarking with your competitors.

Click HERE for the survey. If you have any problems loading, try pasting the link into your browser.

http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB22723XDG573

We look forward to your participation; the deadline for responding is Friday, October 26.

I don't usually run personal posts on this blog, but I was touched by this story on ESPN this morning. For those who didn't see it, it's worth a look. Perhaps it's from watching so many ACC games in various sports over the years, but it struck a chord. Like many others, I have the little heart on my driver's license, but to be honest, I didn't really give it a whole lot of thought when I did it. I did after this story.

CLICK HERE for the story.

The new Content Security Market IQ report is available from AIIM.

One of the questions I was asked when we launched our new Market Intelligence initiative was, "How will this be different from what you have been doing in the AIIM Industry Watch program?" My usual answer was, wait until you see the first report.

Well it's out, and I think it speaks for itself. To get a copy, GO HERE. You need to be registered on the AIIM site to download a copy, but the report itself is free (part of our effort with our Market Intelligence reports to disseminate the information as widely as possible, rather than charge thousands of dollars for the research). The report is underwritten in part by six companies: certeon, EMC, Liquid Machines, Surety, CaseCentral, and Xerox Global Services.

I look forward to your comments; I think you'll agree that the level of analysis by Carl Frappaolo and Dan Keldsen moves AIIM a major step forward. I'll also be blogging on some of the themes in the report over the next few weeks.

As part of the information dissemination for these quarterly reports, we'll also be doing webinars to help spread the results. The webinar for this report will be on November 1 at 2 p.m. Eastern time. To register, GO HERE.

One of the interesting developments in the ECM industry over the past year has been the development of some viable SaaS models for ECM delivery (SpringCM for example). The companies have started to get some traction and support from the venture community (SpringCM, for example, is backed by Foundation Capital out of Menlo Park, CA and has assembled an experienced industry team headed by CEO Dan Carmel.

One of the issues we probed in our "unconnected with AIIM" sample of end users was their receptivity to Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions (not just with regards to ECM, but in general). The specific questions was, "In the next 2-3 years, how likely is it that your organization would consider "buying" software as a service (the salesforce.com model) rather than buying the software outright?" The survey said...

Very likely = 15%
Likely = 20%
Somewhat likely = 27%
No way = 14%
I have no idea = 24%

The responses tell me that end users have come a long way in their potential responsiveness to a SaaS model of software delivery. Perhaps this is because they have been burned by software license and maintenance costs, perhaps this is because of the success of salesforce.com, but in any event, for 35% of end users, this is a solution they are likely or very likely to consider in the next 2-3 years.

Please feel free to download and re-use (with attribution) and forward to anyone you want to your hearts content!